Items Tagged with 'specifiers'

Months after the Construction Specifications Institute's (CSI) overhaul of its licensing model sparked widespread concern among specifiers and design professionals, the conversation has shifted from pricing to questions surrounding transparency, governance and member trust.

As performance expectations rise, resilient roofing depends on system design, not individual materials.

The construction industry is facing mounting backlash over a controversial licensing and software initiative tied to the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and its widely used classification systems, including MasterFormat, UniFormat and OmniClass.

The industry needs codes, specs, and plans operating in a single, connected workflow. When that coordination happens upstream, rework drops, resubmittals shrink, and the industry builds real capacity to close a housing gap that is only getting wider.

Watts has launched a LEED v5 Product Selection Tool, a new tool designed to help architects, engineers, designers, specifiers and sustainability professionals navigate updated credit categories and performance requirements. 

The American Institute of Architects, in collaboration with Deltek and ConstructConnect, has published the latest Architect’s Journey to Specification report, exploring how architects make specification decisions and collaborate with building product manufacturers.

What are the complexities for architects in this climate? How does it impact how they specify products for any particular job? And how does that all cascade to the rest of the industry?

The ATAS Spec Writer will allow users to tailor a 3-part specification to their exact project needs by following the step-by-step prompts.