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| | Posted on Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 07:24 pm: |    |
Do you include your firm name on each page in the header or footer? What implications are there, if they are included or not? |
William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS
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Username: wpegues
Post Number: 787
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 12:43 am: | |
Not on each page, but on the cover and on the title page.
There are some jurisdictions and some government contracts that require that ever section be identified for the party responsible for editing/writing it. But you can also do that through the table of contents. I have never had a requirement to do that, though I know of many that have.
My header/footer is very clean.
Every page the header provides our (the architect's) job number on inner edge, the project name and under that the date of issue on the outer edge.
Every page the footer has the section number and name with the page number under it on the outer edge.
That's it.
The title page has the first page identifying it as the project manual for the 'project name' and under that the date of issue. The second page identifies the Owner entity, the architect and the various consultants to the architect identifying them by discipline.
If there are consultants not to us but to the Owner, or he has other separate contracts, we do not include their documents in our project manual or drawing set. If the owner insists, we include them in an appendix.
William
William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS, SCIP Affiliate
WDG Architecture, Washington, DC | Dallas, TX |
Jerry Tims AIA, CSI
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Username: jtims
Post Number: 76
Registered: 04-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 08:27 am: | |
We put our company name on the cover only. |
Russell W. Wood, CSI, CCS
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Username: woodr5678
Post Number: 132
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 08:45 am: | |
As a government agency, we require the project consultants name in the footer of each page. |
Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate
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Username: lynn_javoroski
Post Number: 865
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 09:13 am: | |
On the cover, obviously, and included in the footer on each page is the company logo - which is, coincidentally, the company name. Other information in the footer includes all the necessary identifiers: project name and number, package title, section name and number, date of issuance, page number and the initials of the spec writer responsible. This way, our footers are consistent project to project, with a few minor anomalies for some clients.
Implications: Having that information in the footer helps us track responsible parties and, I would guess, helps prevent (slightly) the mere copying of our documents for other use. (You'd have to white out more portions of the footer to disguise the origins were you to simply copy).
However, since I wasn't party to the decision for the appearance of the footer, I'm only guessing as to the why. |
Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP
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Username: redseca2
Post Number: 175
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 12:32 pm: | |
We have the initials of our company name and our project number in the left footer of each page as in:
ABC Project No: 12345
Our full company name is on the Cover and in the title block that heads up the TOC and Signature Pages. |
Scott Mize
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Username: scott_mize_ccs_csi
Post Number: 4
Registered: 02-2009
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 01:23 pm: | |
Many of our clients have a document format to which they expect us to adhere. IF the client doesn't object and it doesn't make the footer crowded or busy, I'll put the firm name in the footer.
If the client leaves the document format up to us, I always put the firm name in the footer.
The rare client *asks* us to put our name in the header/footer, so they will know who to blame later, I guess. ;-) |
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