Specifications,
drafted from your master.

AI specification writing means drafting construction specification sections from a practice’s master specification, the project model and the design team’s decisions, then checking each named product and referenced standard for currency, so a specifier edits a near-complete section instead of starting from a blank clause.

Most practices already work from a master: NBS Chorus clauses structured to Uniclass 2015 in the UK, CSI MasterFormat sections in North America, or a house template in Word. The slow part is the project-specific layer: selecting the right clauses, filling in what the model already knows (wall types, finishes, door hardware), and catching references to a withdrawn British Standard or a discontinued product.

A model is good at the first two and dangerous at the third if left alone, because it will produce a plausible standard number that does not exist. So every product and standard in a draft is checked against a source you trust, and anything unverified is flagged rather than written as fact.

We take sections your practice has issued on completed projects, regenerate them from the master and the model, and compare with what a specifier actually wrote. Differences are reviewed with the specifier, and they often expose clauses the master has never caught up with. Fabricated references are a stop, not a metric: any draft with a standard or product the checker cannot verify is held.

Under the Building Safety Act 2022, information about higher-risk buildings has to be kept accurate and current as part of the golden thread, which makes a specification consistent with the model more than good practice. For checks on the model itself, see BIM quality checks.