CSI Learning Level:

Basic

Intended Audience:

Primary: Specifiers
Secondary: Construction Project Team Members

Speakers:

David Stutzman and Louis Medcalf

Course Description:

Procrastination is always costly, and unplanned, out-of-sequence design decisions are a major cause of re-drawing. Is there a way to plan and manage project design decisions to avoid wasted effort? Join us for a discussion of goals and guiding principles for developing a quality assurance process for decision management.

• • Identifying information needed for each design phase.
• • Determining level of development for project elements.
• • Integrating graphic and written information.
• • Documenting decisions for use by other project stakeholders.

Credit:

1.0 CSI PDH Credit (self-reported)

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Mr. Louis Medcalf, FCSI, CCS, CDT

David Stutzman, FCSI, CCS, AIA, SCIP
David Stutzman is the principal and founder of Conspectus, Inc., a specifications and quality assurance consulting firm. His nearly 40 years construction industry experience began as a laborer laying pipe and devising a simple means to comply with the spec requiring the trench bottom to be profiled to match the pipe. Although having studied design, his passions are the technical and building science aspects of construction. Stutzman was responsible for developing and maintaining SPECTEXT, a commercial master specification system, including the ease of use editing tools for more than 13 years. Today David is responsible for managing nine staff members in three offices producing more than 150 project specifications annually for domestic and international projects.