Deliberate Words
by Conspectus, Inc. - decision managers, word masters, aggregators. There is tremendous power in a word that is perfectly placed at the best location, at the best time, during the design and construction process of a project. Deliberate words can manage success, build trust, and provide transparency that every member of the project team craves. As decision managers of the team, Conspectus explores the notion of how transparency transforms three main components of every project: behavior, content, and outcomes, through the appropriate usage of words. Behavior of every participant, is the foundation communication and collaboration, through deliberate words. It will transform the team, and build strong relationships. Content, the documentation built on these relationships, containing deliberate words, is then transformed. The outcome is a successful project, with a legacy of ultimate collaboration. Join us as we chat with members of the architectural, engineering, construction, and owner communities to learn how deliberate word shape their contributions, their projects, and their world! Through these conversations, words aggregate decisions, and transforms perspectives on transparency in the decision-making process.
Deliberate Words
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A specification can name the right product and still miss the performance the project actually needs.
In this episode of What a Week, Elias and architect/specifier Chad Hanley dig into how construction administration experience sharpens technical specification decisions. Using real project examples, they examine a hospital fountain where treatment chemicals degraded the specified waterproofing and a Las Vegas casino where a proposed floodproofing substitution lacked testing and warranty coverage for the conditions it was intended to resist.
The discussion gets to the heart of performance specifying: understand the exposure, verify the testing, scrutinize warranty limitations, and confirm that the product can perform under actual project conditions. It’s a technical look at why specifications require more than selecting a familiar product, and how lessons from the field lead to better questions, better research, and better specifications on the next project.