The Construction Specifier Express

June 14, 2022

Cultural district design to reflect growing UT Dallas arts program

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The Tru-Weep stucco accessories are a series of counter flashing stucco screeds specifically designed to be used with drainage mats.

Empowering women in the AEC industry focus of speaker sessions

The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) will host its ninth Emerging Leaders program this summer, offering virtual workshops to uplift and support young professional women in architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC).

Remains of Missouri church reborn as open-air art center

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s Spring Church project has resurrected the burnt-out shell of a St. Louis, Missouri, church building as a beautified, open air public space for artists to display their work.

Engineers institute recognizes ingenuity in cold-formed steel design

The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) recently honored the winners of its 2022 CFSEI Design Excellence and Creative Detail awards.

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The key to smart energy usage: Energy information and management

Today, facility managers and building specifiers have more to consider when it comes to designing and managing facilities than ever before.

Building healthcare in a coastal environment

In early 2018, RDG Planning & Design and its partner firms began design work to replace an existing, nearly 50-year-old Healthcare Facility on the Shell Point Retirement Community campus (a CONTINUING CARE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY [CCRC]) in Ft. Myers, Florida.

DISCUSSIONS OF THE WEEK

STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING COST IN CURRENT MARKET CONDITIONS

In this market of continually increasing construction prices, what strategies could we use together as a team during the design phase to minimize the impact of rising costs due to inflation? Working with a construction manager from the project’s onset is already an advantage. Seeking design assisting opportunities through the project’s development through constructability reviews and assistance with cost determinations is always a huge help. What are some other strategies that have worked for you?

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IMPEDANCE MOISTURE SURVEY SPECIFICATION

I’m looking for a little assistance with some ongoing roof repair work related to storm damage throughout the region. We have many projects underway and would like to include a spec section which covers ASTM D7954 testing for existing roofs, but do not want to embed it into the roofing specifications themselves because we have many different types of roof materials and specification sections. MasterSpec provides a deep section number of 07 01 50.13 Roof Moisture Survey, which seems like a good spot for such a section to live; however, I’ve never seen an example of this being used. Has anyone in the community ever included something like this, which is essentially just a Reference Standard Specification? I’ve only ever referenced testing standards in the body of a specification and via the References paragraph.

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