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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Role of Specifications | |
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| Documents for Construction | |
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| Bidding Documents | |
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| Contract Documents | |
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| Specifications | |
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| Relationship Between Drawings and Specifications | |
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| What Goes Where | |
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| The Drawings | |
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| The Specifications | |
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| Coordinating the Design Process | |
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| Terminology | |
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| Considerations for Users of Drawings and Specifications | |
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| Organization of Specifications | |
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| History of Specification Organization | |
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| Organizing Specifications Divisions and Sections | |
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| CSI/CSC MasterFormat | |
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| Using MasterFormat | |
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| The Project Manual and Specification Sections | |
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| The Project Manual Concept | |
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| Formats for Specification Sections | |
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| Need for Formats for Specification Sections | |
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| SectionFormat | |
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| PageFormat | |
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| Types of Specifications | |
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| Methods for Writing Specifications | |
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| Specifications Writing Principles | |
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| Determining Content for the Specifications | |
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| Specifying | |
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| Bidding Requirements | |
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| Three Basic Bidding Documents | |
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| General Conditions of the Contract | |
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| Contractual Relationships | |
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| Supplementary Conditions of the Contract | |
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| Supplementary Conditions | |
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| Guide for Supplementary Conditions | |
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| Bonds, Guarantees, and Warranties | |
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| Bonds | |
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| Guarantees and Warranties | |
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| Division 01 - General Requirements | |
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| Scope of Division 01 | |
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| Relationship of Division 01 Sections to Other Documents | |
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| Writing Division 01 Sections | |
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| Modifications | |
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| Modifications to Bidding and Contract Documents | |
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| Addenda | |
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| Specifications Language | |
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| General Precepts | |
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| Applications | |
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| Specification Resources | |
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| Overview | |
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| Construction Specification Resources | |
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| Products Selection | |
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| Product Selection Factors | |
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| Mandated Requirements | |
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| Design Criteria | |
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| Substitutions and Product Options | |
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| Communicating and Recording Product Selections | |
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| Specifications Writing Procedures | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Product Selections | |
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| Project Information | |
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| Specifications Format | |
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| Specifying Method | |
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| Specifications Detail | |
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| Order of Sections to Be Produced | |
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| Editing and Writing Specification Text | |
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| Specifications Checklists | |
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| Master Guide Specifications | |
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| Specification Guides and Intact Masters | |
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| Public Agency Master Guide Specifications | |
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| Commercial Master Guide Specifications | |
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| Office Master Guide Specifications | |
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| Computer-Assisted Specifications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The First Four Decades of Automation | |
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| Transforming the Specification Process | |
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| Word Processing Software | |
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| Computers and Peripheral Equipment | |
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| Word Processing Enhancements for Specifications | |
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| Knowledge-Based, Computer-Assisted Specifications | |
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| Specifiers Property Sets (SPie) | |
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| Preliminary Project Description | |
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| Uniformat | |
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| Preliminary Project Description | |
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| Computer-Assisted PPDs | |
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| Outline and Shortform Specifications | |
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| Outline versus Shortform Specifications | |
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| Outline Specifications | |
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| Shortform Specifications | |
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| Green Specs / LEED Specs | |
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| Sustainable Design | |
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| LEED Specifications | |
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| Green Products | |
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| Green Project Master Specifications | |
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| Resources | |
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| Building Information Modeling | |
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| Changing Specification Practice | |
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| Standards and Formats for BIM | |
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| Organizing BIM Data | |
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| Process Automation | |
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| The Evolving Role of the Specifier | |
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| The Ever-Evolving Specification | |
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| Changing the Specifier's Workflow | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Project Manual Checklist | |
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| Sample Division 01 - General Requirements | |
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| Sample Preliminary Project Description | |
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| Sample Outline Specifications | |
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| Sample AIA Documents | |
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| Sample EJCDC Documents | |
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| Index | |