Are you tired of specifications yet? If you're a contractor - you've long been tired of bad ones; that's for sure. A month ago now we wrote on the problem: Ideas for Fixing Bad FP Specifications Then we discussed the goals for an open specification, including being helpful, concise, clear and timely. We've now incorporated three weeks of great discussion and feedback, and now this week we have our first complete open-specification. All three parts. All in less than ten pages! What do you like? What doesn't work? What's good practice that you'd generally want everyone to be doing? I'd love to take your last round of feedback on this (for now) and open up the word document next week.
Thanks for being a part of making positive change happen for the industry! - Joe
Josh
5/22/2024 10:49:57 am
Please don’t close them too soon. I would really, really like to find time to do it this weekend.
Brian Cockburn
5/22/2024 10:57:11 am
I would like to see a requirement for the design engineer to visit the site a minimum number of times (2 or 3 at least, or as many as required) and provide detailed field review reports (with photos!) to the engineer of record for the project. 5/23/2024 05:13:26 am
Definitely agree with requiring design engineer to visit site.
Brett
5/23/2024 07:33:42 am
I think that would be a strange requirement to include in the specs since the design engineer is the one writing the specs. Those types of requirements are typically included in the contract between the owner and the design team.
Josh
5/23/2024 07:40:14 am
Good point, Brett. We send the GC our specs and they get sent to the subs. I do like the idea of changing that over to say the fire protection contractor should send updates with photos though at 30%, 50%, 75%, 100%.
Brian Cockburn
5/24/2024 11:39:38 am
Hi Brett, Hi Joe, I can't seem to open the document. When I'm writing a specification, I always remember that it is not only a technical document, but a commercial document too. Not only that, Health & Safety needs to be considered, design risks etc. I hope to have more luck opening the word document as I agree, this is an important issue.
Jack G
5/28/2024 09:57:30 am
I agree with the site visitation and detailed pictures.
Fritz Descovich
5/28/2024 12:05:02 pm
Hi Joe,
Joe Meyer
5/29/2024 12:19:49 pm
Hi Eddie, Comments are closed.
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