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Author Message Brett M. Wilbur CSI, CCS, AIA Senior Member Username: brett Post Number: 185 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 03:15 pm:    Wanna see some really old (1910) construction specs online? Check out the specs for Battle Hall Library at the University of Texas in Austin: http://lib.utexas.edu/apl/battle/specifications.html Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEEDŽ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 946 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 03:30 pm:    I haven't opened a PDF yet, but was struck by how close the order of the manual is to what we have now... Steven Bruneel, AIA, CSI-CDT, LEED-AP Senior Member Username: redseca2 Post Number: 204 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 04:03 pm:    One difference: I looked at the 8 page Brick Masonry PDF and they dispense with materials in a little more than a page and the rest is what we think of as Part 3 - Execution. There is also a nice pen and ink sketch of an expansion joint squeezed in. Doug Frank FCSI, CCS Senior Member Username: doug_frank_ccs Post Number: 252 Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 04:13 pm:    WORKMEN'S CLOSETS: The Mason and Carpentry Contractor shall provide temporary earth closet at the beginning of the work at the site enclosed in a temporary shed and provided with all supplies. Such shall be for the use of workmen of all contractors, without charge. When water and sewer are placed fit up a water closet with connections, etc., and remove the earth closet. (I'll admit I didn't know what an "earth closet" was until I read this paragraph) The shed and fixtures shall be kept clean and in sanitary condition, and water connections protected from frost, remove same at completion. Wood boxes containing sand for spittoon shall be placed in rooms and halls with finished floors and printed signs shall be hung forbidding spitting on floors or walls. Doug Frank FCSI, CCS, SCIP Affiliate FKP Architects, Inc. Houston, TX Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wayne_yancey Post Number: 278 Registered: 01-2008 Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 - 04:21 pm:    It is the HONEY EXCAVATION. Does this give LEED 2009 MR Credits 4 and 6 and IEQ Credits 3.1 and 5. John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 1121 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 08:47 am:    I like the field test for the "Vacuum Sweeper" system. Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI, CDT Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 1074 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 08:58 am:    For those of you smart alecks out there ready to pounce on this, I DID NOT help Gilbert write these specs [I was working in another office]. And I don't recall George Everding being with Gilbert then, either Ha, ha, ha!!!! Sorry to spoil your fun!! Seriosuly, note the compliance with the NBFU building code [old National Building Code]. This was the first nationally-used code of substance, written and adopted in 1905 as a result of the 1871 Chicago fire. It primarily protected the buildings [the risk upon the insurance companies] and not the occupants [as does the code today.] George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 493 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 11:00 am:    Hey, I'm not that old. But I am working on specs for a Cass Gilbert building now, the downtown St. Louis Public Library. George A. Everding AIA CSI CCS CCCA Cannon Design - St. Louis, MO Steven T. Lawrey, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: lawrey Post Number: 88 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 01:05 pm:    I noticed that each section references the General Conditions. No matter your viewpoint on this, precident certainly goes back a long time. Some habits are hard to break.