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Author Message Margaret G. Chewning FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: presbspec Post Number: 230 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 05:40 pm:    OK I need some help here. Mockups are not a big deal, I have some standard language and have dealt with the usual exterior envelope wall section type. However, I have a project with MULTIPLE mockups of various types from the standard "mini-wall" on site to one for testing in a warehouse, a whole room with furnishings and finishes, Lab equipment, casework, signage,... I think you get the picture. Any suggestions? William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS Senior Member Username: wpegues Post Number: 879 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 06:01 pm:    Margaret, Just take your time and set up each one the way you usually do. It will require coordination with the Architect and the Owner for what the intent/purpose of each is. On the whole room one you need to find out if it is to be installed a part of the actual building (and if so whether plumbing and electricity need to work) or if it is to be installed offsite somewhere. As to the furnishing in it, that is a layout that the architect really needs to show as it needs to be located. So, this mockup may likely need furniture/furnishing plans as well as wall elevations for finishes. I get this all the time for our hotel and residential projects. Also, if it is on site and is a part of the project that could conceivably remain as part of the finished work, you need to find out if they want that to happen or if after other areas are finished if the mockup is to be removed and redone. The mockup(s) for testing, I always remove from the typical mockup section and put it into a special mockup testing section. I typically also don't do an indetail description of any mockup, but require the architect to actually draw the 'mockup wall' and the testing mockup. Words can't describe what is needed. William William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS, SCIP Affiliate WDG Architecture, Washington, DC | Dallas, TX John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 619 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, March 25, 2013 - 08:42 am:    I agee with William. The Drawings should detail the mockup where this adds clarity to what is required, including isometric views. In particular, I recommend to architects that the Drawings indicate a mockup exterior wall. This should go from ground to parapet (i.e., condition at ground level, intermediate floor and wall cap, including inside parapet face). This mockup should show all conditions that are typical, such as fenestration, finish transitions and, importantly, a building corner. Another type of mockup, as applicable to the project, is a typical room interior. For a project such as a hotel or a hospital, this could be a guest room or patient room. The mockup should include the bed area (including headwall unit in a hospital) and the toilet/bath room. It is beneficial to include plumbing and electrical services to the headwall. Lessons learned on a large hospital project were (1) more mockups would have be beneficial and (2) having the interior mockups near the worksite (rather than in a warehouse offsite) would have been more expedient. The purpose of the mockup is not just appearance of finishes but experience in constructing the the supporting wall and structure, transitions, interior finishing of windows and doors, and clearances when actual casework, fixtures and equipment are installed, including their backing and services. Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 1318 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, March 25, 2013 - 01:32 pm:    I've also done a mockup matrix (or rather, I had the team do the matrix) in Excel that was an attachment to the mockup section. In it we put in columnns for what spec section, if the mockup was for testing purposes or visual matching, if it could be kept as part of the project or not. The matrix helped us keep them all straight, and I think it was useful for the contractor -- at the very least, it gave us one location to look for everything, and see how they all fit together.