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Robert S. Weygant, CSI, CDT, SCIP, is owner of Sumex Design, a BIM consulting and development firm located in New Hampshire. He is focused on development of BIM components for manufactured products and systems while promoting the use of new interoperability standards, the integral link between BIM and construction documentation. He has been the national chair of the BIM Practice Group for CSI and a member of the Institute Technical Committee.
Mark Kalin, FAIA, FCSI, CCS, SCIP, LEED AP, is President of Kalin Associates, an independent specification consulting firm in the Boston area. He has been the national chair of the Sustainable Facilities Practice Group of the CSI and president of Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice (SCIP). For the AIA, Mark has served as chair of the MasterSpec Review Committee, and the Specifications Professional Interest Area. For CSI, he has been president of the Boston Chapter and now serves on the national CSI Technical Committee. He has also taught a course on specifications writing at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
John R. Regener Jr., SAIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP, is an architect and independent specifications writer in Irvine, California, with thirty-five years of experience in producing and applying construction contract documents for commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential projects. Active in CSI education programs and leadership, he is a national leader in SCIP.
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| The Role of Specifications | |
| Documents for Construction | |
| Bidding Documents | |
| Contract Documents | |
| Specifications | |
| Relationship Between Drawings and Specifications | |
| What Goes Where | |
| The Drawings | |
| The Specifications | |
| Coordinating the Design Process | |
| Terminology | |
| Considerations for Users of Drawings and Specifications | |
| Organization of Specifications | |
| History of Specification Organization | |
| Organizing Specifications Divisions and Sections | |
| CSI/CSC MasterFormat | |
| Using MasterFormat | |
| The Project Manual and Specification Sections | |
| The Project Manual Concept | |
| Formats for Specification Sections | |
| Need for Formats for Specification Sections | |
| SectionFormat | |
| PageFormat | |
| Types of Specifications | |
| Methods for Writing Specifications | |
| Specifications Writing Principles | |
| Determining Content for the Specifications | |
| Specifying | |
| Bidding Requirements | |
| Three Basic Bidding Documents | |
| General Conditions of the Contract | |
| Contractual Relationships | |
| Supplementary Conditions of the Contract | |
| Supplementary Conditions | |
| Guide for Supplementary Conditions | |
| Bonds, Guarantees, and Warranties | |
| Bonds | |
| Guarantees and Warranties | |
| Division 01 - General Requirements | |
| Scope of Division 01 | |
| Relationship of Division 01 Sections to Other Documents | |
| Writing Division 01 Sections | |
| Modifications | |
| Modifications to Bidding and Contract Documents | |
| Addenda | |
| Specifications Language | |
| General Precepts | |
| Applications | |
| Specification Resources | |
| Overview | |
| Construction Specification Resources | |
| Products Selection | |
| Product Selection Factors | |
| Mandated Requirements | |
| Design Criteria | |
| Substitutions and Product Options | |
| Communicating and Recording Product Selections | |
| Specifications Writing Procedures | |
| Getting Started | |
| Product Selections | |
| Project Information | |
| Specifications Format | |
| Specifying Method | |
| Specifications Detail | |
| Order of Sections to Be Produced | |
| Editing and Writing Specification Text | |
| Specifications Checklists | |
| Master Guide Specifications | |
| Specification Guides and Intact Masters | |
| Public Agency Master Guide Specifications | |
| Commercial Master Guide Specifications | |
| Office Master Guide Specifications | |
| Computer-Assisted Specifications | |
| Introduction | |
| The First Four Decades of Automation | |
| Transforming the Specification Process | |
| Word Processing Software | |
| Computers and Peripheral Equipment | |
| Word Processing Enhancements for Specifications | |
| Knowledge-Based, Computer-Assisted Specifications | |
| Specifiers Property Sets (SPie) | |
| Preliminary Project Description | |
| Uniformat | |
| Preliminary Project Description | |
| Computer-Assisted PPDs | |
| Outline and Shortform Specifications | |
| Outline versus Shortform Specifications | |
| Outline Specifications | |
| Shortform Specifications | |
| Green Specs / LEED Specs | |
| Sustainable Design | |
| LEED Specifications | |
| Green Products | |
| Green Project Master Specifications | |
| Resources | |
| Building Information Modeling | |
| Changing Specification Practice | |
| Standards and Formats for BIM | |
| Organizing BIM Data | |
| Process Automation | |
| The Evolving Role of the Specifier | |
| The Ever-Evolving Specification | |
| Changing the Specifier's Workflow | |
| Conclusions | |
| Project Manual Checklist | |
| Sample Division 01 - General Requirements | |
| Sample Preliminary Project Description | |
| Sample Outline Specifications | |
| Sample AIA Documents | |
| Sample EJCDC Documents | |
| Index | |
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