48 Electrical Power Generation

The SimpleSpecs™ Concept

Design professionals are accustomed to seeing lengthy project specifications, so why is SimpleSpecs™ so short?

Specifications have grown evermore wordy over the years for several reasons:

1. The mistaken belief that specifications must be lengthy and legal-sounding to be enforceable.  In fact, quite the opposite is true.  Having shorter, easily understood specifications makes us less likely to have problems in the field.

2. A belief that having lots of words protects us from a Contactor making mistakes.  There is no way to include enough statements to protect yourself from a bad contractor, regardless of the length of your specification.

3. Our desire to be in control of the project by specifying means and methods instead of including simple, enforceable statements.

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