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Author Message David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 817 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 01:16 pm:    Please guess the word(s) to the following definition. There is no penalty for wrong answers and no prize for right answers. "_________________ are permanent or temporary aspects of construction projects achieved in the production stage or by subsequent alteration, maintenance, or demolition processes, through the application of a particular skill or trade to construction resources." Steven T. Lawrey, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: lawrey Post Number: 65 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 01:31 pm:    Work results seems to fit. Jerome J. Lazar, RA, CCS, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: lazarcitec Post Number: 330 Registered: 05-2003 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 02:29 pm:    David - you have way too much time on your hands. David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 818 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 02:37 pm:    Steven, You must have cheated and looked that up! Yes. You are correct. Now please explain it to me. Last week my CDT class asked me to define "work results". They could not find it in their PRM and neither could I. I could only find it on page 2 of MF'04. I read it to them. You should have seen the looks on their faces. They then asked for a definition of "work results" in ENGLISH. I could not provide them with an adequate definition. Even though, I am a college graduate and a pretty sharp cookie, I could not understand this definition. Whatever happened to clear and concise? I ended up explaining to my student what "work results" was not. It is not a product (e.g. tile). It is a system that includes many products (e.g. tiling = tile, grout, mortar, sealers, transition strips, etc.) Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 503 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 03:00 pm:    Does this help? I just sort of took the sentence apart. Work Results are aspects of construction projects that are: (1) Permanent or temporary (2) Achieved during construction process or afterwards (3) Maintenance processes (4) Demolition processes (5) Done by a skilled person or person in a construction trade I think the main idea is that they are aspects of construction. Robert W. Johnson Senior Member Username: bob_johnson Post Number: 130 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 03:02 pm:    The definition for work results you have quoted from the MasterFormat Introduction and Applications Guide is actually a definition from ISO/DIS 12006-2 - Organization of Information about Construction Works — Part 2: Framework for Classification of Information. This international standard was used by OCCS for the organization and definitions used in OmniClass. MasterFormat was used as the basis for OmniClass Table 22 - Work Results. The ISO definition for work result is "Construction result achieved in the production stage or by subsequent alteration, maintenance, or demolition processes and identified by one or more of the following: the particular skill or trade involved; the construction resources used; the part of the construction entity which results; the temporary work or other preparatory or completion work which results." In most of the presentations made during the MasterFormat expansion process, a phrase similar to the following was used to make the above definition more understandable: "One or several parts of constructed entity viewed as result of particular skills and techniques applied to construction products and/or resources used - in other words by construction practice." Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 460 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 03:09 pm:    sharp cooky: is that a very thin gingersnap? how about a twice-baked biscotti? Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 504 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 03:18 pm:    Anne, I think a very thin gingersnap fits the best. Anonymous   Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 01:36 pm:    "headaches" Steven T. Lawrey, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: lawrey Post Number: 66 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 04:18 pm:    David, I didn't look it up. Rather, after thinking about it for a few minutes, work results seemed to be the only term that encompassed the sum total of criteria. I'll be sure to put this out to my CDT class. Ronald L. Geren, RA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP Senior Member Username: specman Post Number: 407 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Friday, March 02, 2007 - 04:36 pm:    David: I teach CDT classes, as well, and I explain it using masonry as an example. I explain that masonry uses several products and materials (cement, water, sand, block/brick, reinforcing, etc.), and when each is installed through the application of labor, produces the "work result" of masonry. I define a work result as products and materials with labor applied. You can have a product sitting out on a pallet on the job site, but it is not a "work result" until it is installed and ready for its intended purpose. Additionally, you can divide a single "work result" into multiple sub "work results." Using masonry again, you can have a reinforcing work result, a motaring work result, and a grouting work result, just by identifying those specific materials and the labor required to install them to make them ready for the next phase of the greater "work result" called masonry.