Baltimore, Maryland - The Construction Sciences Research Foundation, Inc. developers of SPECTEXT® Master Guide Specifications announced new members have been named to the SPECTEXT® Technical Review Committee. The Committee is composed of SPECTEXT® subscribers representing architectural and engineering disciplines. Committee members are selected based on their expertise and experience and CSRF's plans for future improvements to SPECTEXT®.

Among those serving on the SPECTEXT® Technical Review Committee are:

Julie K. Brown, CSI, CGS

President - JKB Architectural Specifications in Morgan Hill, CA

Donald F. Caskie, PE

Principal - Bay Design Group in Saluda, VA

Charles Denisac, PE

President - CMS Consultants in Downey, CA

Faramarz Farassat, PE

Senior Mechanical Engineer - BART in Oakland, CA

Donald Sieracki, PE

Senior Project Engineer - CTE Engineers in Chicago, IL

Peter Slavovsky, NCARB, CSI, CDT

Senior Architect - Bechtel SR, in Aiken, SC

Susan Sprague, PE

Quality Assurance Manager - C.S. Davidson in 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 verifies 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 Specifications are continuously updated to reflect current standards, best practices, and conformance to the specification formatting standards recommended by CSI.

SPECTEXT®'s clear, concise, streamlined writing style appeals to the industry as a whole - not a limited sector or discipline. This approach has had wide appeal to engineering firms looking for consistent, unbiased specifications that meet the stringent technical demands of engineering projects.

SPECTEXT® is written, reviewed and maintained by nationally recognized, practicing engineering and architectural specification writers who collectively represent over 125 years' experience in preparing actual project specifications for a wide variety of projects going out to bid on a daily basis

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