e-SPECS Designer

Link Your Drawings to Your Specifications with e-SPECS

“We’ve used e-SPECS for Revit on six projects now and have reduced our spec writing time over 75%. We’ve also reduced our RFIs and Addendums to only one over these six projects. The cost of the license was paid back on our first project.”

~ M. Heaton
Jefferson County, WV

“I have really been enjoying editing in e-SPECS. I have a deadline and I wouldn't make it without that tool.”

~ M. Sabel
HOK

“We’re very happy with the quality and comprehensiveness of the e-SPECS applications. We’re now committed to using it.”

~ S. Bloss
Dal Pos Architects

“We’ve had two architects use e-SPECS and they found it more user-friendly than our previous application and were able to produce their specs in less time and with less hassle. This has been a very good experience for us.”

~ J. Wilkins
ANFA

“We have started using e-SPECS for Revit on our first project. The e-SPECS Designer application made it easy to create our in-house Canadian Master Specifications and the e-SPECS Client application is user friendly as well.”

~ B Darling,
Specworks Consulting Inc.

e-SPECS Designer

Manage your Firm's Design Preference More Efficiently

e-SPECS Designer enables firms to customize the existing intelligent masters integrated into e-SPECS including MasterSpec®, Canadian Master Specification (CMS), or National Master Specification (NMS) to suit their design firm preferences as well as integrate their own custom Office Master sections. Firms reusing specs from old projects or trying to maintain their own set of office masters with the continuously updated industry codes, products and manufacturers need a tool to centralize this information for everyone in the firm to use. Firms managing office masters for various building types (schools, healthcare, LEED projects, retail, etc.) can centralize the data in the e-SPECS SQL Server reducing the management and maintenance of this critical data and letting the e-SPECS CAD and BIM automation choose the appropriate preferences for each design type.

Firms are also looking to better utilize their dedicated specifiers and distributing the spec writing to Project Architects or at least the first draft revew. In order to do this, the spec writing tools must easy to use and automatically include the design firm preferences to provide consistent high quality documents. Manual coordination and tasks inevitably introduces errors, omissions and increases the time and cost required to coordinate and collaborate. Centralization, Coordination and Collaboration through data management and automation is becoming a necessity for firms to be able to utilize resources more efficiently while reducing costs. Specifiers should not be repeating mundane tasks and instead should centralize the knowldege for automation and coordination throughout the firm.

The return on investment can be seen in the following:

Decreased RFIs, addendums and change orders

Increased repeat business with owners

Reduction of time and cost in managing the intellectual property (IP)

Reduction of time and cost preparing Spec Manuals

e-SPECS Designer is used to create or modify Checklist Tags and the associated mappings to paragraphs, optional text selections, input fields and other objects. Submittals, products. manufacturers and preferred language are just some of the preferences setup using e-SPECS Designer.

Custom Office Masters can be integrated into e-SPECS ready for automation from their BIM and CAD Drawings using InterSpec's new AutoTagging services. Hundreds of sections can be integrated with custom checklists and editing functions as well as be linked to BIM and CAD objects in a fraction of the time required previously. Firms managing multiple masters can reduce their maintenance efforts by integrating these masters allowing the e-SPECS automation to determine which language to use and which to filter out. Even Division 1 and other sections not linked to a BIM or CAD object can be automated and coordinated.

Contact us to learn more about how e-SPECS Designer can be implemented within your firm.

e-SPECS Paper: Integrating BIM and Specifications (Acrobat format; 3,283K)