New SPECTEXT© Technical Review Committee Members Announced


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The Construction Sciences Research Foundation, Inc. (CSRF), devel-opers of SPECTEXT® Master Guide Specifications, announced the appointment of new members to the SPECTEXT® Technical Review Committee. The Committee is composed of experienced, practicing specifiers who write specifications for a wide variety of projects go-ing out to bid on a daily basis. The Committee members represent architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and environ-mental engineering disciplines and are selected based on their expertise and experience and CSRF's future plans for SPECTEXT®.

New members to the SPECTEXT® Technical Review Committee are:

Julie K. Brown, CSI, CGS: President, JKB Architectural Specifications, Morgan Hill, CA
Donald F. Caskie, PE: Principal, Bay Design Group, Saluda, VA
Charles Denisac, PE: President, CMS Consultants, Downey, CA
Faramarz Farassat, PE: Senior Mechanical Engineer, BART, Oakland, CA
Donald Sieracki, PE: Senior Project Engineer, CTE Engineers, Chicago, IL
Peter Slavovsky, NCARB, CSI, CDT: Senior Architect & Group Leader for Specifications, Westinghouse Savannah River Company (Bechtel), Aiken, SC
Susan Sprague, PE: Quality Assurance Manager, C.S. Davidson, York, PA

CSRF maintains the SPECTEXT® Technical Review Committee to ensure the high quality of the SPECTEXT® libraries is maintained and all subscribers' needs are satisfied. The Committee reviews the technical content of new SPECTEXT® Sections as they are developed and provides ongoing quality control review of the SPECTEXT® database to ensure SPECTEXT® Master Guide Speci-fications are continuously updated to reflect current standards, best practices, and conformance to the specification formatting standards recommended by CSI.

CSRF is an independent, not-for-profit construction industry re-search organization dedicated to unifying and integrating commu-nication between programs and design/communications processes used in facilities design and construction.

The CSRF newsletter is published for SPECTEXT® subscribers and others involved in design and construction. To obtain your copy of Creating a Common Language®, please contact the CSRF Support Center by telephone at 1-877- SPECTXT or 410-838-7561 or you may e-mail us at supportcenter@csrf.org