If your company is working more and more closely with construction industry professionals, make sure you are as familiar as you need to be. The NSCA Store offers a series of tutorials, guides and quick reference tools to get you on the road to higher profits and more successful projects.

Tutorials:
Three tutorials were developed specifically for contractors, manufacturers and consulting engineers, that show how to improve contract documentation, read specifications, prepare bids, develop a scope of work, develop compliant specifications and effectively control the project, ensuring that it is completed on time and within budget.

• Profit and Successful Project Conclusions for Contractors,
  A General Tutorial for Bidding and Compliance with Specifications
• Why MasterFormat™ ’04 for Consulting Engineers,
  |A General Tutorial for Implementation of Professional Specifications
• Construction Contract Documents for Manufacturers,
  A General Tutorial for Marketing Products through Compliant Specifications

Mini Manual:
The NSCA Mini Manual was developed to help familiarize industry professionals with CSI MasterFormat™ 2004. The Mini Manual includes MasterFormat™ history and timeline, answers to more than 25 frequently asked questions, a listing of common abbreviations, descriptions and definitions and a comparison matrix that cross-references divisions and subsections from the MF 95 to MF 04 version. The matrix also references applicable industry certifications, codes and standards by subsection.

• NSCA Mini Manual

Guide Specifications:
Three guide specifications, one each for Divisions 25, 27 and 28, are also available. The guide specifications provide industry professionals with a framework on what should go where in a specification. The guide specifications will allow professionals to develop and/or respond to specifications in a standardized format.

• Guide Specifications for the Commercial Electronic Systems Industry

MasterFormat 04
MasterFormat is the organizational standard for specifications -- the written instructions for construction for virtually all commercial and institutional building projects. MasterFormat™ 2004 Edition is the most significant revision of MasterFormat in its 40-year history and addresses the needs and requirements for all stakeholders: building owners, architects, facility managers, contractors, and specifiers.

• CSI MasterFormat 04

Quick Reference Card:
Quickly locate and identify the information in MasterFormat 04 with this handy reference card. One side of the card helps you find sections by term, the other side helps you find sections by number. The card fits into your MasterFormat book for quick reference.

• CSI MF 95 – MF 04 Quick Reference Card