Collecting Project Spec Data - What Works?

CSI's Specifying Practice Group discussed what works and what doesn't in collecting data for specifications during their July meeting.

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Preliminary Project Descriptions: Deliverable & Design Tool

CSI’s Specifying Practice Group again took up the topic of Preliminary Project Descriptions and their uses this month.

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Outline Specs - Useful or Not?

Based on the feedback of CSI’s Specifying Practice Group, outline specs are going the way of the dinosaur. They’re being replaced by Preliminary Project Descriptions (PPDs) and other more efficient ways to record project information early in the design phase of a building.

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What Is Expected of a Specifier?

Project manuals, technical research, product selection, addenda, RFI responses, change orders – specifiers deal with all of it.

But if you had to summarize what is expected of a specifier, you could say “technical research.” Much of what specifiers do comes down to knowing how products work together, which means means people in this field do a lot of product research, explained David Stutzman, CSI, CCS, AIA, SCIP, LEED AP, leader of CSI’s Specifying Practice Group.

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What Do You Want to Discuss? Topic Ideas for Future Meetings

CSI Specifying Practice Group leader David Stutzman, CSI, CCS, AIA, SCIP, LEED AP, is compiling ideas for future meetings. Have an idea to suggest, or like one listed here? Leave him a comment.

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MasterFormat 2004 Experiences

Who hasn’t converted to MasterFormat 2004 and why they haven’t were hot topics during the first meeting of CSI’s Specifying Practice Group. “Share your experiences. What has worked for you? What hasn't worked? Where do you think it's going?" said group leader David Stutzman, CSI, CCS, AIA, SCIP, LEED AP.

More than 70 people attended the web-based meeting. Most were involved in spec-writing -- when polled, 74 percent said they “create project specifications.”

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