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1. Building Systems Design Inc This is the second in a series of articles that discusses BSD s new generation of the SpecLink system If you missed the first article it s in the Summer 2006 edition of LinkLine that can be found at linkLine_archives htm Referred to as SpecLink E or E for short it is new software from the ground up designed to support an Internet based information system continually supplying you with the most up to date data E is packaged as easy to install software that keeps itself updated from a network or Internet based site FALL 2006 nent does and how the client component works Configuration and Installation Our goal with the new system is to make quarterly installations and updates a thing of the past while keeping both software and data even more up to date than we do now To achieve this we are separating software updates from data updates Data updating is designed to be continuously available via the Internet You or a designated administra tor will decide when and how often updates are actually applied allowing updates to the master database at night or other opportune times We ll cover more about data updates in a minute controlled by you or your designated administrator In the first article we talked about the ile impetus behind development of SpecLink E its basic screen layout and user interface and the new user definable Global Terms feature This2. Contributes to Katrina Reconstruction August 29 2006 is the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina one of the most devastat ing natural disasters to hit the United States In the year since the hurricane struck Louisiana and Mississippi a great deal of reconstruction has occurred but much remains to be done The city of New Orleans in particular suffered due to widespread flooding and has undergone what may be a permanent reduction in its population with more than 250 000 former residents now living elsewhere Like many businesses architecture and engineering firms across Louisiana and Mississippi have been adversely affected Some no longer exist while others have been severely downsized Immediately after the storm over 1 3 of the architects who belonged to the New Orleans chapter of the AIA either had no place to work no place to live or both Firms with most of their work in New Orleans or the immediately surrounding areas were suddenly out of work with contracts on hold or cancelled Cash flow came to a sudden stop Recognizing the difficulties that were likely for these companies Building Systems Design offered free BSD SpecLink one year comprehensive subscriptions to any professional firm in the areas designated by FEMA as severely affected by the hurricane In the year since that offer was made 13 firms have taken advantage of it At least four dozen SpecLink projects have been initiated in Louisiana
3. m Text To add Non Printing text to your project just add new paragraphs and apply the NP non printing or NS non selectable tag to the paragraphs that should not print You can apply the tags to individual paragraphs within sections to keep them from printing Or to keep an entire section from printing or being listed in SpecLink s automatic table of contents apply the NP tag to the title of the section in the Document panel The NP tags will be applied automatically to the whole section Cost Link AE e just purchased CostLink AE Is there a tutorial Chapter 2 of the User s Manual m available on the CD or on our website includes a step by step tutorial to get you acquainted with the basics of building an estimate If you have additional questions call 800 266 7732 and ask Technical Support Cost Link CM e I have completed my estimate in CostLink CM and now I want to send it to the U S Army Corps of Engineers How do I do that First read the document called Export m toMCACES Format doc which is in the CM_Doc folder of the CD After making sure the estimate is formatted to suit the MCACES format choose Export to MCACES Format on the LinkMan menu It is a good idea to check the MCACES estimate before submitting it Continued on next page Continued from previous page When I drag and drop tasks from the CostBook into my project it takes too long How can I speed that up The
4. updates will never change text delete text or add text unless you the user specifically choose to have that happen You can also choose whether to update a particular project or not Many users update their office master project each quarter but don t update the projects made from it this is a reasonable compromise Wouldn t you rather keep your office master up to date so all your future projects will be current 4 Are you copying to change the section number The only plausible reason we have found for doing this is that the section is referenced by documents under the control of others Because such a copied section cannot be updated automatically however you will probably find that the trade off is a poor one BSD Fall Conference Participation BSD will take part in a number of conferences and seminars this fall We welcome our subscribers to these events and hope to have the opportunity to speak with you Sept ember September 1 Stone Seminar in Honolulu Hawaii Y day event provides 4 5 LUs on stone tile selection and installation sign up online www stoneseminar com September 19 22 Stone Seminars in Grape vine Austin San Antonio and Houston Y day event provides 4 5 LUs on stone tile selection and installation sign up online www stoneseminar com September 28 October 1 Combined South east and Middle Atlantic CSI Regions Fall Conference in Washington D C Four day event offers many educational and
5. edition for purposes of referencing edition dates for one reason It s o LATE BREAKING NEWS been changed e 8 304 paragraphs e 1 559 notes to specifier 1 018 with live e 6 785 internal links targets and e 362 external documents referenced e 224 ASTMS referenced 100 verified BSD recently completed the purchase of PerSpective from CSI and DBIA Under the previous arrangement BSD managed the product 188 external documents referenced with live hyperlinks to order information e 5O0ASTMsS referenced 100 verified this quarter e 138 other documents referenced 6 verified this quarter 39 standards organizations referenced ih simple We know that most design professionals don t have copies of many if not most of the ASTMs referenced so we ve chosen as our definitive edition the simplest as well as the most economical way to purchase them For 899 you get over 1 300 ASTM s related to construction in print and with a CD ROM There are three other ways to get ASTMs Individually at an average of 30 per standard individual volumes of the complete 77 volume set of all ASTMs at 150 250 each or the entire collection for over 8 000 in either print or CD ROM If you decide to add ASTMs to your reference library we recom mend ASTM Standards in Building Codes published annually in early July for 899 If you are not an ASTM member you can get the 10 percent member discount if you place your order with Suz
6. fabricated by glass fabricators using fittings manufactured by others The manufacturer listings allow specifying of both the fitting manufacturer and the fabricator 09 2700 09230 Plaster Fabrications Glass fiber reinforced gypsum fabrications for installation in conjunction with gypsum board gypsum plaster gypsum veneer plaster and portland cement plaster Gypsum fabrications are for interior use only Many manufacturers make the same designs in other materials such as glass fiber reinforced concrete cast stone New MasterFormat Website MasterFormat 2004 is being adopted rapidly by the construction industry Unlike previous and fiberglass which could be used in weather exposed applica tions 26 3100 13630 Photovoltaic Collectors Ready made framed modules intended for mounting on poles racks or other supports These are not intended for installation in curtainwall or flat on roofs Equipment like batteries inverters power conditioners and supplementary generators must be specified in other sections or added to this section by editing SpecLink Revisions 09 2116 09260 Gypsum Board Assemblies New UltraSteel Studs There is a revolution happening in interior metal framing UltraSteel framing by Dietrich Metal Framing and Clark Steel Framing is brand new this year You may have already been approached to specify it or it may have already have been provided on a project without any
7. quarter we want to go a little BSD s E has two distinct components a client component that runs on each user s computer and a server component that in a multi user environment is installed on a possibly remote network server Figure 1 In a single user situation the server can be Local Area Network LAN Wide Area Network WANS Figure 1 SpecLink E Configuration Spe ee deeper and describe system configuration A gt OI l and installation what the server compo Subscribers to BSD SpecLink know it s the only specifications product on the market that verifies every reference standard included in the master database on not less than an annual SpecLink Contribute basis What many subscribers don t know however is that SpecLink includes thousands of ana Benaco hyperlinks that allow you to connect to a website for more information about every refer stomer Case Study ence standard If the standard is free the hyperlink connection allows you to read the document online or download it If the document is not free the hyperlink for that standard ecLink i will direct you to a site where you can purchase it bout the ASTM Updates 3 In previous editions of SpecLink the hyperlinks were located only in the master notes ate Breaking News 2 attached to the reference standard citations in Part 1 of each section Since reference v and Revised standards are selected automatically in Spec
8. request for substitution Section 09260 Gypsum Board Assemblies now includes a standard option for UltraSteel for studs only treating it as an exception to the traditional ASTM standards with explicit language and optional submittals If you don t want to allow this option you Il need to exclude it and possibly add language prohibiting it The reason SpecLink includes it is that UltraSteel has been adopted by Dietrich and Clark who claim 70 percent of all steel stud business in the U S UltraSteel costs the manufacturer less it uses less steel so they are going to provide it unless otherwise specified By the end of 2006 Dietrich will provide only UltraSteel Clark will be com pletely converted by mid 2007 You Il find a detailed description of this option in the master notes in Section 09260 a Are You Sacrificing Updating for Control Maintaining control of your text doesn t mean you have to give up SpecLink s comprehensive updating Many users assume that in order to completely control editions of MasterFormat which were published in hard copy and replaced every few years by a new edition MF04 has been conceived as a dynamic document that will be revised on an ongoing basis To assist in this effort CSI has recently established a website at www masterformat com that will be the official home of the dynamic format Visitors will be able to keep abreast of changes in MasterFormat make suggestions for chan
9. sightseeing opportunities www csi building diplomacy2006 org Oct ober October 16 18 CSI Academies in Snowbird Utah Three day event and over 30 sessions offer three education tracks each with 16 LUs www csinet org October 18 20 Stone Seminars in Boise Salt Lake City and Denver Y day event provides 4 5 LUs on stone tile selection and installation sign up online www stoneseminar com October 18 20 2006 Professional Design Build Conference and Expo in Nashville Three days of educational events and over 200 exhibitors www designbuildexpo com November November Dates to be Announced Stone Seminars in Birmingham Atlanta and Charlotte 1 2 day event provides 4 5 LUs on stone tile selection and installation sign up online www stoneseminar com November 15 17 USGBC Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in Denver Three day event offers many educational opportunities and hundreds of exhibitors www greenbuildexpo org BSD LinkLine Fall 2006 Training Schedule 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 an
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11. Link many of our users were unaware of the ect existence of the hyperlinks In the current edition of SpecLink we have added hyperlinks to the master note at any paragraph that includes a mention of a reference standard This latest change has meant the addition of thousands of hyperlinks to the master database Every standard is now linked from at least two locations the full citation in Part and at least one place in the text where the standard is referenced In the case of paragraphs where more than one reference standard is cited the hyperlink leads to the front door of the IHS E store In all other cases the hyperlink leads directly to a source for that particular document REE SpecLink Cuts Specification Writing Time in Half at BledsoeArchitects Bledsoe Architects couples artistry with technical ability depth of resources and vision to achieve the best possible design The firm s experience includes a wide range of architectural design and other services such as strategic and master planning site planning project scheduling new building design and existing building renovation Their projects include healthcare and educational facilities religious buildings and restaurants The Need Bledsoe Archi tects understands how important it is to meet client requirements However in 2004 they realized they had an internal need that was not being met Masterspec the commercially available
12. Tag starts with the appropriate two character CSI code After this you can choose to print your reports by either Uniformat or CSI More questions Contact BSD Technical Support Toll Free 800 266 7732 In Atlanta 404 365 9226 Email support bsdsoftlink com Updating continued from page 5 2 Are you making multiple versions of the same section An example taken from an actual project is described as this section has been pre edited to apply only to interior masonry work limited to modifying existing CMU assemblies Use for more substantial projects The user apparently felt he needed two different versions in their office master and didn t want to make a separate office master project file which would be an alternative that wouldn t require copying the section A better use of SpecLink would be to use the NON PRINTING CHECKLIST feature In the case cited it would be relatively simple to add a non printing option to the beginning of the section for ONLY modification of existing interior CMU and add links to pre edit the section to that scope Then the same section could be used for both the limited scope and the full scope 3 Are you afraid of updates Copying the section certainly does prevent updating completely But there is no need to fear SpecLink updates Our updating process won t change the text of a project that is underway Updates will never overwrite customized text under any circumstances In addition
13. a note to our support group at support bsdsoftlink com a BSD LinkLine Fall 2006 BSD Software All Products 4 Is there a way I can have the software always open the last project I worked on Yes click on Start Programs BSD m SoftLink Products and then right click on the application Alternatively right click on your shortcut Choose Properties and then click on the Shortcut tab Add a space and OLP to the end of the Target line Click on Apply and then OK Now your last project will be opened automatically when you open the application This saves time when you are working on only one project for a long time ra When I create new projects I always want to save them in a certain folder on my server Is there a way to make the software save to that folder automatically N Yes you can specify a default folder where projects should be saved To specify a default folder open the software and close any open projects From the File menu choose Registration and Settings or Permissions Click on the System Settings tab The fourth field down is called Project Database Location Click the yellow folder icon to the right of that field and navigate to the folder where you want your new projects to be saved by default Click OK The next time you create a new project 1f you type the name in the New Project line the project will save to the specified folder If you want to save the new project to a
14. anne Pagano at 610 832 9612 or spagano astm org tell her you are a BSD SpecLink PerSpective subscriber For more information go to www astm org E To purchase a single ASTM just click the hyperlink in the note next to the citation in the spec the IHS Standards store sells them for the same price as ASTM for the CSI DBIA joint venture Subscribers should notice no difference under the new ownership except that copyright notices have BSD LinkLine Fall 2006 New SpecLink Sections 12 9313 02871 Bicycle Racks Standard steel bicycle parking racks intended for outdoor use These racks install by either anchor in ground or by surface flange Custom designs can be added by referencing a particular manufacturer s model number This section does not cover bike banks or storage lockers Bicycle racks may qualify for a possible LEED credit if specified in conjunction with changing rooms for commercial application Review LEED SS credit 4 2 for more information regarding bike racks and LEED 07 4646 07466 Fiber Cement Siding Wood fiber cement siding including lap panel shingle panel individual shingle and simulated masonry panel forms suitable for exterior use on walls only not roofs 08 4126 08450 All Glass Entrances and Storefronts Includes tempered glass with patch and rail fittings swinging balanced and sliding doors These entrances and storefronts are usually
15. ast access even when the server is unavailable If you ve never looked at a particular project or a particular document and the server is not available then that item will be unavailable until you are able to reconnect to the server To edit documents you must connect to the server and check them out However once you check them out you can continue to work on them even after you disconnect from the server for example to take the laptop on a trip Concurrent license usage is measured by checked out documents That is when you have one or more documents checked out you are using a license regardless of whether you are connected to the server or are on the road In Figure 2 documents that are not checked out display a Read Only sign in the status bar while you are reading them Next quarter we ll talk more about interoperability with CAD software and how the optional security system can help you manage projects and users protecting your projects in the process As I m sure you can tell we re very excited about E We re making it easy to use powerful enough for the largest office and project but still comfortable and configurable to the smallest office as well Above all we re focusing on your productivity and helping you produce quality specifications with a really intuitive system If you have questions or suggestions about the new product or are interested in participating in our beta program downstream drop
16. d maintain their own office master This day covers the concepts of an office mas ter how to customize your master by add ing choices links and tags as well as cre ating your own checklists Users must al ready be familiar with the basics of SpecLink to attend the second day BSD SpecLink Either Day 495 Both Days 895 September 12 13 October 17 18 December 5 6 AIA Members We will report your course completion for 7 or 14 Continuing Education Units CSI Members Submit Course Completion Certificate for 7 or 14 Education Contact Hours ECHs toward your CCS CCCA or CCPR Certification renewal Class starts at 9 00 AM and ends at 5 PM BSD CostLink CM 3 days 1295 Scheduled on a demand basis Call 888 273 7638 AIA Members Submit Course Completion Certificate for 24 Continuing Education Units CSI Members Submit Course Completion Certificate for 24 Education Contact Hours ECHs toward your CCS CCCA or CCPR Certification renewal Class starts at 9 00 AM and ends at 5 PM View BSD class schedules on our website Go to www bsdsoftlink com and click the Training link Get directions amp information on travel hotels amp Atlanta BSD Building Systems Design Inc LinkLine 3520 Piedmont Road NE Suite 415 Atlanta GA 30305 PRESORTED STANDARD U S POSTAGE PATD ATLANTA GA PERMIT NO 6613
17. different location click the yellow folder icon to the right of the New Project line and navigate to the correct location ra just got a Windows XP computer and I want to install BSD SoftLink products Do I have to be the Administrator to install Yes for Windows 2000 XP and NT you must have Administrator rights to install BSD LinkLine Fall 2006 4 I want to move the software from one computer to another but the access key won t work Why is that The access key you received when m you installed the software is specific to the computer on which it was installed To move the software to another computer call Tech Support at 800 266 7732 for an Unpermit code before you remove the software from the first computer Before you call you can have the software already installed on the new computer and then after you report the Unpermit code you can get the new key for the new computer SpecLink and PerSpective 4 We are trying to run SpecLink with the key on our Wide Area Network WAN and it is very slow What can we do to speed it up With the Fall release we have made a m change to greatly improve the speed of SpecLink when your access key is ona WAN Your projects still need to be on your local drive or your Local Area Network rather than the WAN but this change will allow you more flexibility in sharing the access key among remote offices that are connected via a WAN For instructions
18. ee Updating on page 7 TNG continued from page I installed and run on the same computer as the client The client installation is downloaded from the Internet by an administrator and placed on a single network server accessible to all users For the initial install each user simply runs the setup file on the network to install and start the application Because the software installs to a fixed location in the user s Documents and Settings directory there are no questions to be answered during installation or permissions required for completion of the installation The client software periodically checks the network installation site for available software updates When updates become available and you are ready for them to be installed on user computers you simply download the update to the same network installation site as the original software Each client then updates itself in the back ground The server component has a standard install program that installs two pieces one is the BSD server software and the other is the Microsoft SQL Server instance that E works with to save retrieve and modify data The server component once installed on a single server or a standalone computer runs as a service on that computer That is the component is always running in the back ground and is automatically restarted when the computer is restarted The service runs continually in part to allow off hours updat
19. ges and learn more about who is adopting the standard and how it is being used Take a look and visit the site periodically for updated informa tion BSD is participating in MasterFormat maintenance as a member of the CSI MasterFormat Maintenance Task Team MFMTT E BSD LinkLine Fall 2006 what goes in their specifications they have to prevent or avoid updating This would be true if SpecLink were word processing based but it isn t updating and control are completely compatible when you use SpecLink We would like to suggest to all our users that copying SpecLink master sections to make minor modifications and importing whole sections instead of editing the corresponding SpecLink master section are poor practices that will quickly lead to obsolete documents We strongly urge you to use our sections as the basis for your customized specifications Why Because copies of SpecLink master sections DO NOT GET UPDATED when the master section itself is updated 1 Are you using your own sections instead of SpecLink s It s true that import ing existing word processing sections is the easier course of action when initially developing an office master If you re happy with using SpecLink only as a word processor OK But if you wish to take advantage of BSD s updating not to mention the linking and specifier notes the better approach is to edit the appro priate SpecLink section to suit your practice rather than importing whole sections S
20. ing As BSD publishes new or revised specification sections or other documents the server component will download them and apply updates on a schedule set by you or an administrator Projects that have not been locked to prevent further editing or updating will be marked with available updates when and as the documents become available when no longer checked out by individual users As is now the case the user will have the opportunity to review and accept or reject updates at the project document and LinkLine A BSD SoftLink Publication Editor Niki Koplowitz The LinkLine is published by Building Systems Design Inc indivi 3520 Piedmont Road NE individual paragraph Suite 415 levels Atlanta GA 30305 How the Client Works Permission to use excerpts in other publications is granted provided the publisher is notified in advance at 404 365 8900 As we ve seen SpecLink E is a two part system As a user you work with the client software When you open the client it tries to get a list of projects from the server If the server is unavailable say you re on a laptop at home or the network server is down it BSD SpecLink BSD CostLink and BSD SoftLink are registered trademarks and BSD CadLink and BSD LinkMan are all trademarks of Building Systems Design Inc Get the latest on BSD by visiting our web page at www bsdsoftlink com uses the last list of projects you viewed The server s availabil
21. ity is indicated to you by a green ON box or a red OFF box on the application status bar see Figure 2 bottom The list of projects is BSD Sgeoclink E Model Branch Bink Bildir lBls preses Dee Est yen poet Eom Domet Tasu Table Hote endow ti i J lOgemla liolsmexia l fala fm DISD eize uvek alee FE Hy Stan Page 60 B50 2 IIII G00 Plager and zjn E 0i METAL LATH BSD 0 Ej 2200 GYPSUM PLASTER 6 Ej C6205 GYPSUM VENEER Pir C 03020 PORTLAND CEMENT I E 5 GLASS FIBER REIF O DYPSUM GARD er r fa eee inga Gypsum Board Assemblies PART1 GENERAL 1 01 SECTION INCLUDES A Metal siud wall framing B L Meta channel ceding framing Gypsum wallsoard and other gypsum panel SNM aisanana y Types wall pad teing tra mmg ha wall The J Fire rated area separation wall section includes paper and fiberglass faced Armai meulen gypsum bowed for walks Corbrags aed turned D Sheathing board space enclosures predecorated gypsum es board gypeum sheathing cementitious backer Cementitious backer board board and coated glass taced gypsum backer E Gypeum wallboard board metal channel and stud framing tapad err p yet and balten jowd ayolar This section alpo anneal ills inchodes fine rated shaft wall systems SECTION 8000 GYPSUM BOARD cy wii Te aE ttii Daiso EHO 05500 Cednge E00 Flocang DARID al Freher BE igid Accuiies Theatre Oy
22. nks e 26 670 notes to specifier e 15 347 notes with live hyperlinks to Internet web pages e 2 120 external documents referenced with live hyperlinks to order information e 955 ASTMS referenced 100 verified this quarter 29 updated hyperlinks consequences this quarter About the ASTM Updates Standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials ASTM make up 44 of the 2 194 documents referenced in SpecLink the Short Form specs and PerSpective the largest number published by a single organization All of those ASTMs were verified in the last quarter 30 had been revised and 3 withdrawn Each revised standard was compared to the previous edition and evaluated for its potential effect on the specifications before updating the sections The ASTM updates affected 46 of SpecLink sections 10 of the 16 Short Form sections and 14 of PerSpective performance specifying sections Monitoring the continual irregularly timed changes to ASTMs might be an almost impossible project except that ASTM publishes an annual 4 volume compendium of the standards referenced in the model building codes SpecLink and PerSpective and other guide specifications ASTM Standards in Building Codes BSD furnishes ASTM the information they need to ensure that all of the standards referenced in SpecLink Short Form and PerSpective sections are included in this set We use ASTM Standards in Building Codes as the current
23. oe had two projects he was working on He recalls I recently completed specifications for two separate projects totaling over 9 million in construc tion costs The projects were very similar yet quite different I completed them in less than a week It used to take us weeks to get that much work coordinated and printed Bledsoe s closing comment We would not go back to Masterspec if you paid us E We include the current date on every standard within BSD SpecLink but one mouse click allows you to print all reference standards with or without publication dates More impor tantly we obtain and check all the revised and updated standards for changes that could total Visit IHS Standards Store for free information orto purchase a copy of this document More Subscriber Resources on the Web E D BSD LinkLine Fall 2006 potentially affect your specifications We make any changes needed in every section affected by a revised standard regardless of the number This quarter for instance we updated 269 sections or 46 percent of the Helping you avoid obsolescence in your specifications is one of the major benefits offered by BSD SpecLink With this expanded hyperlink feature it s now possible for you to obtain information about the most current reference standards and to obtain copies of those you need quickly and easily We hope you enjoy and take advan tage of this new feature BSD SpecLink
24. on the setup see the Release Notes for this quarter They are available on the BSD SoftLink Products CD as well as on our Download Center web page 4 How will the upcoming proposed changes in the CSI SectionFormat affect my SpecLink projects We have been involved in the m discussions on the proposed changes The final version is not expected for at least another 6 months possibly considerably later When the new document is finalized we will begin updating SpecLink to correspond All changes will be accom plished through the normal project updating process you get to decide which projects you want to update and to what degree and we would expect to complete the changes over 2 or 3 quarters In addition we will sequence the changes to cause as little disruption to your projects as possible and provide a detailed description of the changes so that you can coordinate your user added text For more information on the proposed changes go to www csinet org sputt 4 I m considering making a checklist document that the project manager will go through to select what is included in a particular job I will create links from those selections that will activate the appropriate sections in the job The only problem I have is that the checklist will print when I print the whole project and it will be listed in my automatic table of contents report Is there any way to get around this You can do this using Non Printing
25. re are several ways to make m building your estimate faster One is to be sure you don t have Auto Recalculate Markups on When this is on all of your markups get recalculated each time you drop a task into your project This is turned on and off on the Tools menu A second way to speed up the process is to have your Project and CostBook databases on your local drive rather than on a file server If more than one person needs to work in the estimate at the same time then this 1s not feasible A third way to speed up drag and drop is to use a referenced database This choice is made in the Summary Info Dialog Box under the Select Database Methodol ogy area and should be made before you start adding costs to the estimate It is possible to use a referenced database while building the estimate and then when the estimate is complete you can choose to copy all the resources into your project at one time 4 I have a client that requires Unifor mat to start with but then later he wants it in CSI MasterFormat Can I do that CostLink CM can do that for you m automatically Start your project using one of the Uniformat templates and complete the estimate When you need to see the project in CSI MasterFormat change your view drop down to Project CSI view Go to the LinkMan menu to assign tasks by hierarchy Use the default setting and your tasks will be sorted into the appropriate CSI folder assuming that their Source
26. since the free subscrip tions began Some are new buildings others are renovations A significant number are schools and churches other projects are commercial and a few are residential They have one thing in common The specifica tions for all these projects were created with BSD SpecLink We are pleased to have played a small part in the ongoing reconstruction of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and we are happy to have new subscribers who will continue that work into the future T SpecLink Statistics 5 ASTMs never before referenced 3 e 138 other documents referenced 2 e 580 sections total 269 updated or new obsolete verified this quarter 46 e 1 165 other documents referenced 5 e 43 standards organizations referenced e 5 new non proprietary sections e 524 non proprietary sections 248 updated or new 47 e 56 proprietary sections 21 updated 31 e 42 sections with built in checklists 2 396 manufacturer listings with live hyperlinks to their web sites Short Form Specs Statistics e 16 sections corresponding to verified this quarter 183 standards organizations referenced PerSpective Performance Specs Statistics 161 sections 18 updated 14 e 17 381 paragraphs e 18 462 internal links targets and e 96 541 paragraphs MasterFormat 1995 divisions consequences e 105 060 internal links targets and e 10 sections updated 63 e 4 012 notes to specifier 920 with live consequences hyperli
27. specification program they were using was not working for them Format ting and editing were cumbersome Checking reference standards took a long time They wanted to find something that would better meet their needs to re use The Solution Once he saw how easy it was to edit and format with SpecLink Ben Bledsoe AIA Principal with Bledsoe Architects was sold on the program He says What do I like best about SpecLink It is easy to use and to re use By using the SpecLink office master I am able to edit Staying Current continued from page 1 What do I like about SpecLink It is easty to use and Ben Bledsoe AIA CSI CCS LEED AP Architect Principal Bledsoe Architects project specifications much faster I espe cially like having all choices intact in case changes are required during project devel opment Bledsoe estimates his firm is creating specifications in half the time it took with their previous system He continues With SpecLink it is much easier to make the necessary specification modifications The global page formatting headers footers every thing is MUCH better than the way we used to do it The Outcome In addition to the formatting features Bledsoe also likes how SpecLink helps keep information such as reference standards up to date And he says that the coordination notes have helped to make their documents even better Not long ago Bleds
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