SPECS FOR AN AIR FORCE BASE

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Author Message Jerome J. Lazar, RA, CCS, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: lazarcitec Post Number: 1667 Registered: 05-2003 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 11:30 am:    An Architect reached out to me today requesting services to prepare MEP specs for a Renovation to an existing building on the Homestead (Florida) Air Force Base. I advised Architect I would assist him with finding a spec writer for the project since I do not prepare MEP specs. Anyone interested? Margaret G. Chewning FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: presbspec Post Number: 277 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 01:20 pm:    make sure they also do SpecsIntact. Most Air Force work comes out of the USACE. David G. Axt, CCS, CSI ,SCIP Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 1490 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 02:21 pm:    Is SpecsIntact still around? I though the government was slowly transitioning away from that archaic system. David G. Axt, CCS, CSI, SCIP Specifications Consultant Axt Consulting LLC Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEEDŽ AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 270 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 03:57 pm:    SpecsIntact is very much around (unfortunately). We have major projects underway requiring it. Robert E. Woodburn, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: bob_woodburn Post Number: 190 Registered: 11-2010 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 04:00 pm:    I have done SpecsIntact specs in the past, but since I am an architect, not the MEP divisions (although one could word-process them in SpecIntact from engineers' marked-up masters if necessary). Yes, SpecsIntact is still around; the UFGS spec master it uses was updated May 12, 2016. Both the software and the master textbase are available free of charge for use on govenment projects; for info on the UFGS masters see https://www.wbdg.org/ccb/browse_cat.php?c=3; for the SpecsIntact software go to http://specsintact.ksc.nasa.gov/ Though SpecsIntact is not a bad system, its unique features (it's a marked-up tagged text system, kinda like HTML or WordPerfect) can make the learning curve a little daunting. Last I heard (maybe 3 years ago), the Army still required SpecsIntact & UFGS for design-bid-build work, but for design-build, the d-b entity can use the spec system of its choice (which for me was BSD SpecLink). The other branches of service may have different policies. The biggest potential problem may not actually be the software, but the seemingly overly detailed requirements specified in the master text (you can see why a toilet seat might cost $600, as was once reported). From my experience, very few engineers want to go to the trouble of learning SpecIntact; at one time I compiled a 7-page "SI Tips" document to help them out (things I had learned from SI support and then wrote down before I forgot them). (I don't know whether I kept a copy of it, or where it would be...) Robert E. Woodburn, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: bob_woodburn Post Number: 191 Registered: 11-2010 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 04:05 pm:    I believe there used to be at least one SCIP member consultant who specialized in SpecsIntact (among other things). Don't recall the name, but IIRC the location was in the South, perhaps in Mississippi or Louisiana. Ronald L. Geren, FCSI, AIA, CCS, CCCA, SCIP Senior Member Username: specman Post Number: 1409 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 04:38 pm:    Stephen Nash and Margaret Chewning are SI masters, but I doubt they do MEP specs. Ron Geren, FCSI, AIA, CCS, CCCA, SCIP www.specsandcodes.com Michael Chusid, RA FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: michael_chusid Post Number: 179 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 04:39 pm:    Young Johnson is a specsintact user. http://www.c2s-specs.com/html/about.html Michael Chusid, RA FCSI CCS www.chusid.com www.buildingproduct.guru 818-219-4937 David E Lorenzini Senior Member Username: deloren Post Number: 176 Registered: 04-2000 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 05:38 pm:    The SCIP website includes SpecsIntact as one of the search categories, and nine current SCIP members list SpecsIntact as a service. David Lorenzini, FCSI, CCS Architectural Resources Co. Liz O'Sullivan Senior Member Username: liz_osullivan Post Number: 205 Registered: 10-2011 Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2016 - 05:50 pm:    SCIP website is SCIP.com . Here's the member directory http://scip.com/members.aspx . You can search by Services. Margaret G. Chewning FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: presbspec Post Number: 278 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Friday, July 22, 2016 - 12:13 pm:    I have edited MEP specs in SpecsIntact, but will only do them from an engineers markup for the technical information for the project. When I do this it is usually for projects that I'm preparing the front end. Current workload is light at the moment, (on purpose as grandbaby and great grandpa are making my tailspin right now,) but am looking for projects in September and October.