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1. Some of these documents such as the Owner Contractor Agreement and General Conditions are legal documents that most design professionals should not want to take responsibility for However regardless of who prepares the legal docu ments the design professional usually the architect is expected to include them in the published Project Manual and to coordinate the other parts of the Project Manual with them Besides the legal documents there are many external forms and other docu ments that relate to the Front Ends the two new checklist sections 00 4000 and 00 5000 include fairly comprehensive lists of such documents The Front Ends are usually the last part of the Project Manual to be prepared or at least to be finalized The main reason is that details such as when the bids are due cannot be determined until the contract documents are nearing completion Another factor is that is often difficult to get adequate instruc tions from the Owner so start as early as possible The simplest way to get the Owner s instructions is to use either AIA G612 or EJCDC C 050 amp C 052 these are checklists coordinated to other docu ments published by those organizations AIA s document is available free of charge Both organizations documents cover such questions as whether competitive bidding is required who will prepare the Front Ends and what type of contract is required e g fixed price cost plus a fee etc Both2. The software automatically marks any section that has not been completely updated to the latest master by turning the document title magenta To update the whole project go to the Tools menu select Update to Master then select Update Project and click the Update button You can also update only certain sections by selecting Update Section selecting the section you want to update and clicking the Update button Once the sections are updated the titles in the tree panel turn back to their normal colors black or blue Note that SpecLink does not require that you update a project there can be many legitimate reasons for not updating The magenta titles simply act as reminders that those sections contain obsolete data You can open any of those sections at any time to see which paragraphs have updated ver sions available marked with a rust color and you can view the individual paragraph changes before updating them You can also print a report that lists every paragraph in your project affected by updates For more detail on updating see Chapter 11 in the updated User Manual on the latest BSD SoftLink CD ROM or from our website at www bsdsoftlink com support sl_ manual htm All Products k Our company has a Citrix server that people run software from when they are traveling Can we run BSD software this way Yes On the Citrix server perform a m standalone installation of SpecLink or CostLink AE You will nee
3. Data data base R S Means stands behind its pub lications If you have any questions about your estimate about the costs you ve used from their data or even about the technical aspects of the job that may affect your esti mate feel free to call the R S Means editors at 1 800 334 3509 i Is it possible to include my com pany s logo on the reports SpecLink E continued from page I SpecLink projects to the new Micro soft SQL Server based SpecLink E e Other Improvements A host of smaller changes and improvements to make the life of the specifier easier and more productive To sign up for a Webinar or the upcoming Beta release visit BSD s website at http bsdsoftlink com or call BSD Technical Support at 888 BSD SOFT Information should be available in early December that will allow you to get on the list If you have already left your name and address at one of the annual trade shows or via Technical Support you will be contacted around the same time If you feel we ve missed you or might miss you please don t hesitate to give us a call We look forward to your participa tion and your feedback ih Contracts continued from page 5 AJA program now includes documents that deal with projects located outside the United States The EJCDC documents include a significant number of forms dealing with environmental remediation procurement and agency funding And the Consensus DOCS program in
4. also serve as a useful educational tool because they cover so many issues The two most important documents for all contracts are the Owner Contractor Agree ment and the General Conditions but SpecLink does not include either of these because the most commonly used docu ments are copyrighted by their authors These are standard or model docu ments that can be used as is or edited to suit specific project conditions see the article elsewhere in this newsletter for more information about AIA EJCDC and Con sensusDOCS documents Since SpecLink does not include any of the typical legal documents the principal issue the specifier must deal with is how to incorporate those documents into the Project Manual AIA s Agreements and General Conditions are designed as standard pre printed forms that can be simply incorporated by reference to the document number and edition date with an optional Supplementary Conditions document for modifications to the pre print ed form On the other hand EJCDC s and ConsensusDOCS Agreements and General Conditions are designed to be edited to suit the project they really don t stand alone without edits like the AIA s documents do That means that they cannot be incorporated See Front End Documents on page 4 BSD LinkLine Winter 2007 2008 New SpecLink Sections 00 4000 00400 Procurement Forms and Supplements This section is for listing fo
5. of the Status Columns in the Document Panel Explanation of choices options and fill in the blanks Creating and modifying headers and footers Printing options We offer free SpecLink Webinars on Tuesdays at 11 AM and Thursdays at 4 PM Eastern Time Please call 1 800 266 7732 to schedule the time most convenient for you and we will send you the information to register i BSD LinkLine Winter 2007 2008 Front End Documents continued from page 3 by reference because the bidders can t tell what they say unless the documents are published in the Project Manual AIA also makes it possible to edit their documents the edited documents would need to be published in the Project Manual for the same reason SpecLink includes two sections for the Agreement 00 7100 00500 and the General Conditions 00 7200 00700 These sections function either as cover sheets for the actual document inserted manually or as placeholders for the actual document imported into a user section Either method is valid which to use usu ally depends on the mode of reproduction If a stack of paper is sent to the printer the external documents can simply be inter leaved But if electronic files must be sent to the printer or issued to bidders then the external documents probably need to be imported into the SpecLink project file Although all contracts typically include an Agreement and General Conditions only competitivel
6. within the document or entered into the margins and unnecessary provisions could be stricken out For more extensive changes separate supplementary documents could be prepared that would modify the printed form With the dawn of word processing the concepts of rolling a printed form into a typewriter and attaching supplementary conditions to a preprinted form quickly became obsolete and the own ers of these copyrighted contract documents subsequently struggled for years with the problem of preventing unauthorized use of their intellectual property Today only AIA continues to offer hard copy documents for sale in addition to its electronic documents which are avail able only through proprietary software that shows any changes from the printed forms EJCDC s electronic documents are available only as Word files and can be purchased as a group on a CD ROM or downloaded individually from its member websites ConsensusDOCS documents are available only electronically through AGC s proprietary DocuBuilder software that was developed by BSD Both the AIA and the ConsensusDOCS documents can be purchased by annual subscription or through a metered approach that deducts the cost of each document from a prepaid meter on the user s computer W Resources To obtain more information about the AIA documents pro gram or to order AIA docu ments see Www aia org To obtain more information about the EJCDC documents pr
7. BSD Building Systems Design Inc WINTER 2007 2008 THE LATEST ON BSD SpPECLINK E including a second monitor e Page View A print layout of a docu ment familiar to Word users that lets you add and edit text and choices while viewing the document as it will be printed Development on BSD SpecLink E is near ing its Beta phase There are a couple of events coming up that you should know about First BSD is planning one or more webinars to provide live demon strations of the new software and its any software installation We will ask you to sign up for the event using an online form and we will ask you to complete a mod est survey following the demonstration numerous new features Second BSD Home Inset ProjectTree View Documents Tools Master e Project wide Find Replace and will be delivering a first Beta of the an Le B hal Tiesi Qe Dets Spell Check Functions Flexible aeoo o e 2 m aa normai eng Zoom a Project ae commands let you search any and all individuals The first Beta will not be Be hoata anes documents in the project in a single My Start Page 081113 BSD V 042000 BSD Div 02 14 i Eal 081773 Hollow Metal Doors ar a process considered ready for production use and will be given to those entities s EE 08 1116 Aluminum Doors and F e Style based Templates Styles seas 2 4 _ 08 1200 Metal Frames g who are willing to take the t me
8. am able to edit and save each project as its own unique file without losing any of my edits Because of this I don t have to wait until the end of the writing session to review my specification i BSD LinkLine Winter 2007 2008 BSD at Greenbuild We ve just returned from an exhilarating but exhausting stint at the Greenbuild 2007 conference and expo that was held in Chicago November 7 9 BSD sent four people to occupy a 10 x 10 booth during the time the exhibit floor was open a to tal of 21 hours over two and a half days The show had to be moved from Los Angeles at almost the last minute due to scheduling difficulties with the Los An geles Convention Center Nevertheless the convention drew a record number of attendees There were over 21 000 people at the event a 62 percent increase from the 13 000 or so who attended last year s show in Denver The show s organizers were unprepared for the numbers so lines were long throughout the three days of activities Even getting a cup of coffee at Starbucks involved waiting in line for at least a half hour On the other hand traffic at the BSD booth was great We spoke to hundreds of attendees and ran out of BSD Spec Link canvas tote bags after we had given away 250 of them Even though the attendees ran the gamut from flower children to dedicated green architects to government agency representatives we found plenty of people who wanted to hear about th
9. cludes a number of docu ments that deal with program management in addition to a unique tri party agreement Model Documents All three organizations subscribe to the con cept that standard model documents as a starting point for construction agreements are preferable to custom documents since the latter often favor the drafting party are untested in the courts and must be carefully reviewed by legal counsel because of their unique language AIA s program has the distinct advantage of almost 120 years of evolution with contract terms being refined in response to court cases and changes in the construction industry EJCDC s docu ments program is now over 30 years old with documents that are tailored to the needs of its professional engineering mem bers AGC s documents program which has now been absorbed by the ConsensusDOCS initiative is the newest kid on the block with documents that apply to a wide range of entities and project delivery methods For all of these programs it is critical that their documents be accepted as fair and balanced because they are competing for acceptance by building owners The original concept that underlies standard or model contract documents was that the printed paper form could be used directly as the actual contract document If modi fications were necessary as they always would be for agreement forms the required information could be printed or typed directly into blanks
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11. d maintenance so lutions They are headquartered in Appleton Wisconsin with offices throughout the United States Their 100 employees are united around a strong set of values alll honesty fairness ss 7 hard work perfor E Eees mance and a love WEEN of what they do The Boldt Company handles the planning and implementation of complex projects in four primary sectors healthcare senior living higher education and commercial Their professional staff blends the disciplines of plan ning architecture real estate construction finance and law bringing clients flexible and innovative solutions for today and the future Fox Valley Animal Referral Center The Need Design firms often work on different types of projects Because of this a design firm s informational needs can differ particularly in the area of specification writing The system or process used should be flexible enough to effectively satisfy the needs of the firm In 2001 the system that The Boldt Company was utilizing was not meeting their needs They found it was taking too long to develop specifications with their wordprocess ing based spec writing program They wanted a faster more flexible system They found what they wanted with SpecLink The Solution Using SpecLink we have been able to reduce the time it takes us to create a specification by as much as 90 remarked Kevin Shumann Architect The Boldt Com pany We can now write the entire s
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13. e green features that have been built into BSD SpecLink We also spoke with many of our customers some of whom were unaware of our many LEED features like the checklist sec tions and the automatic LEED submittals report We ve already signed up for Greenbuild 2008 in Boston which promises to be even bigger and better We ll see you there ih We ve Moved As of May 14 our address is Building Systems Design Inc Two Piedmont Center Suite 300 3565 Piedmont Road NE Atlanta GA 30305 SpecLink Statistics e 531 sections total 139 updated 26 e 528 non proprietary sections e 3 proprietary sections e 51 sections with built in checklists e 91 640 paragraphs e 103 717 internal links targets and consequences e 26 203 notes to specifier e 15 044 notes with live hyperlinks to Internet web pages e 2 130 external documents referenced with live hyperlinks to order information e 962 ASTMs referenced 100 verified within last 6 months e ASTMs never before referenced e 1 254 other documents referenced 841 verified this quarter 59 updated e 187 standards organizations referenced e 2 423 manufacturer listings with live hyperlinks to their web sites e 949 unique manufacturers listed in 372 non proprietary section 23 updated or replaced Short Form Specs Statistics e 16 sections corresponding to MasterFormat 1995 divisions e 1 section updated e 8 308 paragraphs e 1 564 notes t
14. eneral contractors and other parties How the Programs Differ Figure is a table that shows the major document categories for each of the pro grams Each set of documents is focused primarily on its own constituency but all three programs include documents intended for use by other parties As shown in the table there are some correlations between document sets but there are also unique aspects to each program For example the 1 AGC Members Unanimously Vote Against A201 Endorsement General Terms and Conditions Document Fails to Provide Balance The Associated General Contractors of America October 12 2007 2 Letter to the Editor Engineering News Record McGraw Hill Construc tion October 10 2007 See Contracts on page 7 BSD LinkLine Winter 2007 2008 iad BSD Software SpecLink What does the paragraph that reads Recent revisions to master text in dicate in one of the sections in my project Why do I see it on the screen but not in print preview or in the printed document We have non printing text for check m lists and important notes to speci fiers Please review the master note attached to the paragraph to get information about changes to the section The paragraph does not need to be turned off and the text will print on the Draft and Master Text copies however it will not appear in the final Docu ment Q I have asked to be a beta tester for the upcoming SQL vers
15. enting owners contractors subs sureties insurers and designers The claim of input from design organiza tions was subsequently rejected in a letter to the editor of ENR that was signed by the chief executives of AIA NSPE ASCE and ACEC who wrote To our knowledge no organization in the design professional community has provided comments on or contributed intellectual property to ConsensusDOCS Competition and Controversy Building Systems Design Inc Two Piedmont Center Suite 300 3565 Piedmont Road NE Atlanta GA 30305 Permission to use excerpts in other publications is granted provided the publisher is notified in advance at 404 365 8900 BSD SpecLink BSD CostLink and BSD SoftLink are registered trademarks BSD CadLink and BSD LinkMan are trademarks of Building Systems Design Inc Get the latest on BSD by visiting our web page at www bsdsoftlink com AIA documents are developed in house by an appointed committee of AIA members supplemented by a full time professional staff and outside counsel with limited invited input from outside organizations including AGC In a noteworthy shift from previous editions over a period of fifty years the 2007 release of AIA s key A201 general conditions document was point edly not endorsed by AGC In an October 2007 press release AGC said that the new edition does not fairly balance risk among all parties but instead significantly shifts risk to g
16. esently included in the SpecLink E product and to provide you with an early look at the product that is coming down the 7 pike e Insert Tables More robust support for Fe inserting tables rows and columns Both the webinar and the Beta release pres Insert Hyperlinks Allows inserting live links to the Web in the body of the specification document Expanded Export Capability Supports export to Word document and PDF formats including live hyperlinks ent numerous new features over and above SpecLink all of the functionality currently found Updates in BSD s SpecLink accumulated over i ten plus years of development The new W features include e A Tabbed Document Interface Fea tures slide out panels that let you open multiple documents in a single window accessed by tabs allows drag drop side by side positioning of panels and cut copy paste between them Detachable Notes Panels Easy to tear off using drag and drop and place anywhere on your desktop System Roles Support for assigning roles to individual users including Ad ministrator Expert User Standard User and Reviewer that determine and limit the application commands to which the user has access SpecLink Project Conversion Fully automatic facility for converting BSD SPECLINK HELPS THE BOLDT COMPANY ACHIEVE UNPARALLELED TIME SAVINGS Since 1889 The Boldt Company has offered consulting construction an
17. ion of Spec Link but I haven t heard anything about that What s going on with that BSD SpecLink E development is entering its Beta phase this quarter One or more webinar demonstrations are planned beginning in December to introduce features of the new product to customers and to allow feedback during this final stage of development The first Beta release of the software is planned closely following the first webinar For more information regard ing SpecLink E and participation in either a webinar or the upcoming Beta trial read the article elsewhere in this issue of Link Line Previous versions of the newsletter available on our Web page outline the new features of SpecLink E ra How can I tell what has changed in a spec between when it was issued for pricing and when it was issued for construction The Compare Projects feature was m created for this purpose and also for tracking changes in addenda To use Compare be sure to keep a separate copy of your project each time it is issued For example when issued for pricing keep BSD LinkLine Winter 2007 2008 a copy of the file called projectname pricing issue and later for construction keep a separate copy called projectname construction issue Also keep a copy for each issuance of addenda When you are ready to see what is different between two files open the more recent project file and from the Tools menu choose Compare Select the olde
18. ntractors subcontractors and sureties that have banded together to produce contract forms based on collaboration and intended to reflect the project s best interests rather than a single party interest see related story in Fall 2007 edition of LinkLine Finally Documents onsensusDOCS Documents as municipal and utilities construction These 21 docu A Series Owner Contractor C Series Construction Related tracting 200 Series General Con 300 Series Collaboration ments replace the previous In A Series and G Series 700 Series Subcontracting 2002 edition and supplement B Series Owner Architect E Series Owner Engineer in 200 Series over 40 other documents comprising the full EJCDC program In September a new orga nization ConsensusDOCS published its first edition of over 70 construction con tract forms that were derived C Series Architect Consultant D Series Architect Industr E Series Digital Practice G Series Office Project Forms In A Series and B Series in C Series in A Series and B Series E Series Engineer Subcon sultant In Guides and Commentaries In C Series R Series Environmental Re mediation P Series Procurement F Series Funding Agenc D Design Build E Series Joint Venture E Series Peer Review Management In 200 Series in 200 400 and 700 Series 400 Series Design Build 500 Series Construction from previ
19. o specifier 1 023 with live hyperlinks e 9 056 internal links targets and consequences e 354 external documents referenced e 226 ASTMs referenced 100 verified within last 6 months e 138 other documents referenced 81 verified this quarter 4 updated e 43 standards organizations referenced PerSpective Performance Specs Statistics e 161 sections 1 updated e 17 392 paragraphs e 22 127 internal links targets and consequences e 4 024 notes to specifier 925 with live hyperlinks e 191 external documents referenced with live hyperlinks to order information e 50 ASTMs referenced 100 verified within last 6 months e 141 other documents referenced 97 verified this quarter 9 updated e 39 standards organizations referenced W Documents issued more than two years ago are verified quarterly as are annual or semiannual publications The documents not verified this quarter were updated within the past two years PREPARING FRONT END DOCUMENTS USING SPECLINK Two new checklist sections have been added to SpecLink to help in the often com plicated process of preparing the contracting requirements necessary for all construction contracts and the bidding requirements nec essary for competitively bid projects These requirements are located in Division 0 Procurement and Contracting Requirements and due to their location at the front of the Project Manual are often referred to as the Front Ends
20. ogram see www ejcdc org To order EJCDC documents see one of the member organization websites www acec org www asce org www nspe org www agc org To obtain information about the ConsensusDOCS documents program or to order Consensus DOCS documents see www consensusdocs org or www agc org BSD LinkLine Winter 2007 2008 Training Schedule BSD CostLink AE 1 day 595 The BSD SpecLink Workshop The BSD SpecLink Workshop consists of two one day workshops The first day is devoted to learning the basics of SpecLink including how to navigate within the software start a new project edit sections understand how the links and choices work and how to format print and export the final document It is designed for new users The second day is designed for those who want to learn how to create and maintain their own office master This day covers the concepts of an office master how to customize your master by adding choices links and tags as well as creating your own checklists Users must already be familiar with the basics of SpecLink to attend the second day BSD SpecLink Either Day 495 Both Days 895 December 11th amp 12th Cincinnati OH January 8th amp 9th Edison NJ January 15th amp 16th Atlanta GA February 12th amp 13th Portland OR March 11th amp 12th Atlanta GA March 18th amp 19th Chicago IL April 8th amp 9th Philadelphia PA AIA Members We will report your
21. ously published documents issued by The agement 800 Series Program Man Associated General Contrac Commentaries etc free Guides Commentaries etc tors of America AGC and the Construction Owners Association of America COAA ConsensusDOCS is an organization comprising 20 different con LinkLine A BSD SoftLink Publication Editor Jamie Klucsarits The LinkLine is published by Figure 1 in November the American Institute of Architects AJA issued almost 40 new and revised documents including a 2007 edition of its keystone document A201 The General Conditions of the Contract for Construction and many other contract forms that are related to and coordinated with A201 outside of the design profession Cyni cal observers have noted that subsequent to its endorsement of the 1997 edition of A201 AGC began to publish its own fam ily of documents that competes with those published by AIA The new AGC backed ConsensusDOCS product that was released in September 2007 in cludes its own combined owner contractor agree ment and general condi tions document Consen susDOCS 200 in addition to several other agreement forms that include general conditions A cover story and an editorial in the September 19 2007 edi tion of Engineering News Record included state ments indicating that the ConsensusDOCS docu ments had been developed by 23 industry organiza tions repres
22. pecification in one place With our previous system we had to go through three steps Even then we were not assured of having an accurate product Much of this time savings can be attributed to the fact that so much of SpecLink is automated from the automatic coordi nation of cross references to the automated Table of Contents generator Using SpecLink we have been able to reduce the time it takes us to create a specification by as much as 90 Kevin Shumann Architect The Boldt Compan While the are a lot of areas the program will take care of automatically there are also many ways to customize it This gives SpecLink users the best of both worlds speed through automation and flexibility through customization By creating an Office Master the user is able to plug in unique items that they use in their particular type of construction or geographic area They can then start with this master specification and know that there is no danger of leaving out critical items The Outcome The staff at The Boldt Company attended the training class at BSD s offices in Atlanta Schumann says that instruction was all they needed to start using the software In addition to the timesaving features Schumann also likes the ease of use and updates that SpecLink offers He also mentions another aspect of SpecLink that he finds helpful What I like best about SpecLink is that I can continuously see the spec as I am writing it I
23. r version of the project file and then select whether you would like to generate a comparison of the whole project a branch or a single section Then you will be able to print preview or export a comparison to word processing format In the comparison file text that was added to the more recent project will be underlined and text that was deleted will be struck out There will also be a vertical line to the right of paragraphs that have changes to help you and the reader more easily locate changes I accidentally added a word to my SpecLink dictionary that was misspelled How do I remove it Words commonly used by you m that are not found in the standard SpecLink dictionary can be added to the custom dictionary This is a text file named CUSTOM DIC and it is found in the SpecLink System folder either on the local drive or on the server If you are running over a network the software usually uses the CUSTOM DIC on the server This file can be edited using a text editor such as Notepad and you can add and delete words to and from it directly To edit the CUSTOM DIC close SpecLink open CUSTOM DIC in Notepad and make any necessary edits Be sure to type a return after the last item so that there is a blank line at the end of the file The names of several section titles are appearing in pink or magenta text in my Tree panel What does that mean In short it means the project has not been completely updated
24. rms that bidders must use during the bidding or tendering process Some forms are standard pre printed forms published by organizations such as the AJA or EJCDC which can if desired be incorporated by reference simply by listing them here Others will be included in the Project Manual such as the Bid Form This section can be most efficiently prepared by first preparing Section 00 5000 Contracting Forms and Supplements as the procurement forms should be coordinated with the contracting forms 00 5000 00590 Contracting Forms and Supplements This section is for listing forms that the contractor must use during the construction period The most important of these forms are the Agreement and the General Conditions All of the relevant model documents published by AIA EJCDC and ConsensusDOCS those that relate to the actual construction contract are listed here for selection read more about these forms elsewhere in this newsletter A checklist prompts the user for the contract type and which organization s forms should be used and then presents only the appropri ate options There is also a long list of other forms that may or may not be necessary for a particular project The checklist in this section also preselects the appropriate options in Section 00 4000 Procurement Forms and Supplements Although this section is not manda tory on all projects it is an easy way to prepare a concise list of all the front end docu ments
25. that are typically prepared outside of SpecLink 01 4216 01422 Definitions This short section includes basic specification related definitions that apply to many if not most sections namely provide furnish and install Sometimes these definitions are included in the Supplementary Conditions which is where in SpecLink they previously appeared This new section has been prepared because there are so many different meth ods of preparing General and Supplementary Conditions and the specification writer often does not have any input into those documents The three terms defined here are fundamen tal to SpecLink specifications this section should be included if there is likely to be any doubt as to what those terms mean Other relevant terms can be added by editing 07 2501 07261 Rainscreen Weather Barrier with 2 D Drainage This section describes Cosella Dorken s Delta Dry dimpled plastic weather barrier de signed for installation under most types of exterior cladding It is only for above grade use and provides a ventilated space behind the cladding with positive drainage www cosella dorken com Now Playing SpecLink Webinars Building Systems Design provides twice weekly guided tours of the SpecLink ap plication One hour Webinars cover the basics to get you started on your first project Subjects covered include Starting a new project Navigation of the Menu Bar and Tree Panel Discussion
26. to F C 08 1300 Metal Dooa Protection OPTIONAL CHE define paragraph appearance includ eo t 08 1400 Wood Doors y review test and report on it in this 08 1500 Plastic Doces ited ing outline number format each of H E 08 1600 Composte Doors 1 not for prime time state Gal 00 1700 ed Des perry EE 10 paragraph levels are assigned a E C 08 3000 Speciaty Doors and F a 5 E in ee eee style to create a document template 5 08 5000 Windows w RETIN i The webinar is an event that will 2 tas aie cascades me multiple user defined templates are let you watch the software in action abt somet supported I Intenor sour from the convenience of your office Master Notez E me e Template based Documents A ntenor stee Hollow steel fire rated non rated sound rated flush and stile and rail SDI amp HMMA This section can be used to specify any type of steel doors Standard single template one of four built in or any number of user defined templates is assigned to the whole project as the default but each document can over ride the project default with its own template e Insert Pictures Support for insertion of multiple picture formats It requires a computer and a fast In ternet connection but does not require 1 03 Door and i Frames are to be PART 1 GENFE The purpose of the webinar is to provide hel ea feedback to BSD on the user interface and tents features pr
27. y bid projects include bidding requirements The two most important bidding documents are the Instructions to Bidders and the Bid Form SpecLink includes samples of each which should be edited to suit the project If an AIA Agree ment General Conditions is to be used AIA A701 Instructions to Bidders should also probably be used either by incorporation by reference with a supplement for modi fications or by inserting the actual edited document into the Project Manual Other types of forms that may be necessary include Bid Security or Bond Bidder s Qualification form Performance and Pay ment Bonds Application for Payment Schedule of Values Change Order and Certificate of Substantial Completion see Sections 00 4000 and 00 5000 for a list ii SPEC WRITER JOB OPENING BSD is looking for an architect or engineer to join us in maintaining and expanding SpecLink For more informa tion go to www bsdsoftlink com bsd jobs htm or call 888 BSD SOFT New Construction Contracts from Three Sources 2007 has been a big year for standard construction contracts with new or re vised forms being issued by three different construction organizations In March the Engineers Joint Contract Documents Com mittee EJCDC issued an update to its core construction related contract forms which are heavily used in horizontal construction projects such A Documents D struction organizations representing owners co
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