Feature from Environmental Building News
July 1, 2002

Getting From Design to Construction:
Writing Specifications for Green Projects

At a recent conference, I was in the uncomfortable position of listening from the front row while a speaker criticized the Guideline Specifications that we publish as part of our GreenSpec Directory. 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. 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….”


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