Regarding Arlen's "many more references to standards without including what in the standard is critical for the application" comment: a. For ASTM or other standards referring to products, the key is read more
Thank you all for your informative responses. My take away is that - yes the "resi-multifam" GCs are a "challenging" group! We should stick to our guns and document our position. CA fee should be "hourly" read more
Arlen, I found your comment very insightful and I think you've pinpointed the main contributors to the sometimes irrelevance of specifications. Among many thoughtful remarks, you said, "our specs have read more
Looking backwards as well as forward, I'd like to add a couple of comments. 1. My own theory about the attitude and approach from the residential contractors is that they have generally come from very read more
I definitely find variability even among commercial contractors in diligence and understanding of the role of specifications and reference to scope and execution. Its ireally difficult to handle and we read more
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