CSI specification format
CSI specification format
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Can any suggest where I might get a specification format for electrical/technology construction for free? I need to develope a specification for a project.
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Can any suggest where I might get a specification format for electrical/technology construction for free? I need to develope a specification for a project.
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RE: CSI specification format
RE: CSI specification format
I am an ME in the valve manufacturing sector.
I need to find out how to convert a Word Doc and/or an Excell file directly to the CSI format, for use by a project/specification engineer.
Any ideas/suggestions would be greatly apprciated.
Thank you.
RE: CSI specification format
William
RE: CSI specification format
IMO CSI specs are written by lawyers to keep owner and general contractors our of trouble and get things cheap. If any jobs winds up looking like you, as the engineer though it would that's a mircale. CSI charges a lot of money for their canned weasle worded specs that let subcontractors and vendors have their way.
RE: CSI specification format
RE: CSI specification format
I use CSI and have found the basic materials specs are a good starting point. The equipment specs are designed so they can be satisfied by wide range of manufacturers for bid jobs. If you want something different than run-of-the-mill products, you need to edit appropriately. As an example, for switchboards CSI is very vague. It covers standards compliance and that's about it. I use that as a base to develop my own specs to get what I really want. CSI's spec editing add-on's for word processors make it easy to edit and format.
As an engineer, the "weasle words" have saved my (client's) a** a time or two.
Writing good specs is an art form and a talent that many engineers lack. Too often once the drawings are done the project gets shipped with the engineer's off-the-shelf spec book that's been used on every job for the past ten years. When the junior engineers start turning out projects, they copy that same book, often little idea of it's contents.
RE: CSI specification format
we went to court and a judgement was made that is new equipment because of the wording of the spec. So now I change that specification statement to be "equipment and parts shall be furnished new and of the latest design". The logic being-the manfactures are alway updating thier equipment, so far no old manufactured equipment have been been summitted since for approval.