If you foresee doing light commercial work as well, you may want a single library like Small Project rather than purchase multiple separate products. If you only do residential work, it may be effective to obtain their residential library and modify it over time to suit your practice. It looks like they maintain separate product offerings for residential, green residential, light commercial, and green light commercial.
I spent a few minutes on the UDA Residential Specification website this appears to be a viable alternative to Small Project, especially for residential work. Utilizing the companion Masterworks automation software, you can format your project's collection of individual sections into a compact single document that can also be published on your drawing sheets (though we prefer a separate booklet).
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We have confidence in the adequacy of Small Project from a code point of view. You'll need to add "basis of design" manufacturers/products - because of the great variation in products available around the country, Small Project doesn't include lists of products as found in the full size MasterSpec. It is integrated with the AIA contract documents, and retains adequate reference standards to serve as a contract and guide to the work. We've produced residential specifications for several clients based upon MasterSpec's Small Project with good success. all proprietary specs, or not specs at all)? Does anyone have an alternative way to provide construction guidance to the contractor that they feel is effective (i.e. Does anyone use a specification suite that they feel is a pretty good fit for these projects? Has anyone used the UDA Residential Specifications and have an opinion of them? How does ARCOM Masterspec's Small Projects spec fit the bill?Īs a fledgling practice, money is an issue, so I love that UDA's offerings are very affordable, but my guess is this is a classic case of you get what you pay for.
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I am investigating what is available in specification software for the small firm that principally does residential additions and renovation projects. This message has been cross posted to the following Discussion Forums: Small Project Practitioners and Residential Knowledge Community.