CSC and CSI have announced the 10-year renewal of an agreement to license and support MasterFormat in Canada, United States, and worldwide. MasterFormat is used throughout the building industry to format specifications for construction...
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The Alberta Construction Association is looking for assistance with developing and updating trade definitions, and aligning them with resources like MasterFormat and UniFormat. CSC past-president Keith Robinson, FCSC, FCSI, RSW, LEED AP, is the...
Architects and Specification Writers: Part two
(06/29/2017)
A basic tenet of a good set of construction documents is “Mention it once and in the right place.” The contract is between the owner and the contractor, and the specifications communicate to the...
Architects and Specification Writers: Part 3
(06/22/2017)
This final article in a three-part series on specifications examines the divisions of MasterFormat .
Architects and Specification Writers: Part 1
(06/22/2017)
In more than one instance, this author has heard an architect tell a specifier something along the lines of “You want 250 hours for specifications? I have only budgeted 70 hours.” A project manager...
Spec Matters: What does THAT mean?
(04/18/2017)
English is complicated, and misinterpretation of written communication is pervasive. Without the added layer of subtleties of speech tone, body language, and context, many written sentences can be easily misinterpreted. This is especially true...
New edition of MasterFormat now available
(04/26/2016)
The revised 2016 edition of MasterFormat is available for purchase at Spex.ca. The joint publication of CSC and CSI, it is a master list of numbers and titles classified by work results or construction...
The inside scoop on MasterFormat 2016
(04/18/2016)
MasterFormat is the industry’s leading resource for organizing project manuals and specifications, construction project filing systems, construction product information, and cost estimates. The new, updated, improved edition is coming later this spring, and this...
For 60 years, CSC has worked to improve the quality of construction documentation in this country. Nevertheless, there is still some confusion over the standard definition of a specification—despite its ubiquity in the design/construction...
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