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Spec Writing

Need specs for your products? BSD can write them.

Do you have a proprietary product that you want to make available to thousands of spec writers? BSD can add your proprietary specs to BSD SpecLink®.

Do you have a complicated product that’s tough to specify? BSD can build an automated checklist that will make it much easier to correctly specify your products.

Check out our proprietary specifying options!

Proprietary Specs

BSD’s professional, in-house spec writers will create a 3-part CSI-style proprietary master specification to provide to your customers on your website and/or to integrate with BSD SpecLink.

$2,995 per section

 

Add your proprietary specs to SpecLink

Let us add your proprietary specs to BSD’s database and make information available to thousands of SpecLink design professionals who use our product to write specifications for over 20,000 projects per year (subject to approval by BSD). Don’t have proprietary specifications for your products? BSD will write them for you (see above).

$3,595
per section annually

 

Intelligent Checklists

So you sell a complex product that’s difficult to specify? Do you offer a wide range of products that makes it difficult for spec writers to make the correct selection? An intelligent checklist is a short series of options that automatically edit the specification for a project in response to selections. BSD’s intelligent checklists simplify the process of writing difficult specs.

$2,495
per product category

Sample of Specification Writing

Cosella-Dörken Products Inc., located in Beamsville, Ontario, Canada, provides polyethylene waterproofing, drainage, and vapor barrier products utilizing a unique "dimpled" design. As one of their marketing efforts, they have added a proprietary section to SpecLink®, to make specifying this product very easy. BSD prepared the specification using the company's product catalog and the company approved the text. Then BSD put the section into BSD SpecLink®, added notes, intelligent links, and a basic checklist at the top. All SpecLink® users have access to this section -- it is also available to people evaluating SpecLink® after downloading. The image below shows this section, Section 07 1355 - DIMPLED PLASTIC DAMPPROOFING AND WATERPROOFING MEMBRANES WITH DRAINAGE, open in SpecLink® with the cursor positioned to the title of the section. The note in the lower left explains the contents and gives contact information. Click here to get a sample of a final specification prepared using SpecLink®, in PDF format.

As another aspect of the company's marketing efforts, BSD provided them with a word processing version of the specification. Although this version does not have all the built-in intelligence as the SpecLink version, it is very helpful to those specifiers who don't use SpecLink yet. Click here to download a copy of the specification in RTF format (for Word and WordPerfect for Windows).