GreenSpec and for distribution as part of the online version. We are now working with the author of that material, Larry Strain, AIA, to revise and restructure it for the next print edition of If we publish something that looks like specsĪnd that designers are likely to copy when writing their project specs, we should make sure that it works as specification language. When I protested, during the question and answer period, that we publish them as guidelines and not as actual specs, he responded: “If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck….” While acknowledging that they include a lot of useful information, the speaker pointed out example after example of passages that do not conform to good specification practices. Guideline Specifications that we publish as part of our At a recent conference, I was in the uncomfortable position of listening from the front row while a speaker criticized the
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