Specifications in the Project Life Cycle: Schematic Design
CSI's Project Resource Manual describes the Project Life Cycle with a number of stages:
- Project Conception
- Project Delivery
- Design
- Construction Documents
- Procurement
- Construction
- Facility Management
- Evaluation
- Abandonment, Demolition, Sale, Adaptive Re-use (remodeling)
Specification production is concentrated in the Design and Construction Documents stage. Different types of specification documents are required to describe the work in these various stages.
In Schematic Design, the purpose of the documentation is the evaluation of Owner’s programming
requirements and development of conceptual design documents, including
- Preliminary Sketches
- Schematic Plans and Elevations, Diagrams, Renderings and other Graphics
- Preliminary Project Descriptions, a specialized form of specifications, often organized by UniFormat, and formatted using the new PPDFormat available from CSI.
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