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Minutes are Minutes and Not Addenda
The bidders are required to attend a pre-bid meeting. The owner, the design team, and (presumably) all the bidders attend. Each meeting follows...
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The bidders are required to attend a pre-bid meeting. The owner, the design team, and (presumably) all the bidders attend. Each meeting follows...
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This month the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) will hold its annual convention and the Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice...
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Why the Architect/Engineer (A/E), of course! CSI MasterFormat Division 01 Level 2 titles courtesy of www.masterformat.com
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I just completed review of a new document that the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) will be publishing soon: The CSI Sustainable Design...
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A spec writer? Of course you know what a spec writer is. Spec writers produce the project manual. They create all the project requirements for the...
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How can Conspectus build a catalog and ultimately leverage the collective knowledge of every employee and every client?
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The promise of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is that project data can reside in the model and can be extracted by anyone in a form for every...
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In the past two weeks, I attended two different leadership seminars for two professional associations, AIA and CSI. What struck me after attending...
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A very good question. By searches on this blog, it is one question that definitely wants to be answered. Something must be necessary, but is it...
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Several discussions about architectural licensing and use of the term "Architect" started recently on blog posts (See Liz O'Sullivan's blog) and on...