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Institutional clients without formal design standards use drawings from previous projects as examples of desired outcomes, or specifications from similar work that exemplifies certain requirements. Similarly, design firms mine their own reservoir of details or specs from comparable projects in order to expedite documentation and avoid reinventing the wheel each time. https://bit.ly/39KOIdD #designstandards #ffe #specification #ffespecification #standardization

An innate problem with scale is that the bigger you grow, the harder it is to control your projects. Errors multiply. Delays snowball. You can manage this with approval checkpoints. https://bit.ly/3f8fpg4 #specification #FF&E #design #build #construction

If your FF&E specification software isn't much better than a free spreadsheet, should you be paying for it (in more ways than one)? https://bit.ly/3vqkHZM #ffe #specification #construction #procurement #hospitalitydesign #design

If you're still manually copying and pasting products or tracking projects in messy Excel sheets, you're getting left behind. We're not trying to reinvent the wheel -- but more can and should be done to shave off inefficiencies in the design and construction process. https://bit.ly/3eoK8Fd #design #construction #specification #ffe