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David Stutzman: Sep 17, 2012 12:35:30 PM
Building owners contract with architects, contractors, design-builders, or integrated project delivery (IPD) teams to create the owners' facilities....
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David Stutzman: Aug 13, 2012 10:19:23 AM
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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David Stutzman: Jul 30, 2012 12:21:13 PM
The manufacturing industry mass produces many of the same, or essentially the same, items offered for sale to industry or the general public....
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David Stutzman: Jul 16, 2012 7:44:58 AM
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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David Stutzman: Jul 2, 2012 7:00:39 AM
An architect recently asked that I give an opinion about a shop drawing and what was actually installed on a project site. The installation was...
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David Stutzman: Jun 18, 2012 9:29:20 AM
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...
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David Stutzman: Jun 12, 2012 7:45:32 AM
An interesting question--no doubt about it! More than 90 Specifying Practice Group members, an attendance record, met last week to discuss it.
David Stutzman: May 22, 2012 5:23:22 AM
When is the scope of work on a restoration project prepared? On what does the contractor base his bid? Too often, the scope of work on a restoration...
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David Stutzman: May 14, 2012 10:04:00 AM
Can we please stop calling solar, wind, and other LEED and government promoted energy sources "renewable?"
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David Stutzman: Apr 30, 2012 2:53:40 PM
The concept of delegated design is not new. Architects have passed some design responsibility to contractors for a long time. A classic example is...
