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Ensuring Specifications Consistency & Quality
How can architects ensure their specifications are consistent from one project to the next or one project architect to the next? How can architects...
Focused on owner’s requirements, Conspectus offers an accurate, transparent view of how decisions made during the design process will ultimately impact project cost, construction quality, and building operations.
Focused on architect's requirements, Conspectus offers an accurate, transparent view of how decisions made during the design process will ultimately impact project cost, construction quality, and building operations.
Focused on design-builder's requirements, Conspectus offers an accurate, transparent view of how decisions made during the design process will ultimately impact project cost, construction quality, and building operations.
Focused on construction manager's requirements, Conspectus offers an accurate, transparent view of how decisions made during the design process will ultimately impact project cost, construction quality, and building operations.
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How can architects ensure their specifications are consistent from one project to the next or one project architect to the next? How can architects...
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Who are the first sources of product information, especially when it is 6 PM and the spec must be issued the next day? CSI members! I know I can rely...
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What documents are architects obligated to produce? The obvious answer may be drawings, of course, to show what design must be constructed. Under AIA...
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You've seen them. You've been required to comply with them. You've been required to implement them. You may have written them.
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Because of discussions about a current project, I got to thinking: Just what is the best product research source? Since there are so many sources,...
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I would like to produce perfect documents every time. However, I remember Hal Barcus, one of my architecture professors saying, "Architecture is...
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Division 01 sets the basic rules for administrative procedures of a construction contract. You may think that once written for a particular firm,...
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I am not certain how to measure a community today. Before social media, I could have counted business cards in my Rolodex and friends in my...