The Spec Shaman

The Spec Shaman

The building industry's top specification experts, LEED gurus, and design hotshots offer their best advice, research, and insights to help building product manufacturers increase product specifications. Building product specification is what keeps us up at night. Our team of experts are dedicated to helping building product manufacturers implement meaningful action to create positive outcomes. The goal of this blog is to create insightful, relevant content that building product manufacturers can utilize in their daily lives. Whether you are the company Owner, President, Marketing Manager, Sales Leader, Product Rep, or office intern we hope to provide you with strategies to improve product specification results and grow key parts of your business significantly.

On: Jun 4, 2019 By: Brad Blank
3 Reasons Why Your National Sales Manager Should Be Fired
What’s your biggest specification struggle and how are you trying to solve it? What specification strategies do you have up your sleeve that could help save time and money for your company? Why should a National Sales Manager be fired? Let’s find out . . .
On: May 29, 2019 By: Brad Blank
5 Strategies for Building Product Reps to Pass the LEED v4 BD+C Exam
Passing the LEED v4 exam be a difficult enterprise. There are several important skills that one must master before taking the LEED v4 exam. Preparing for the exam will help you successfully navigate content areas and exam questions.
On: May 24, 2019 By: Brad Blank
The Health Product Declaration (HPD) Collaborative has released the HPD Open Standard Version 2.2 for building product contents and associated health information Planned for Q3 2019, full implementation will launch when the HPD Builder, HPD Public Repository and APIs will be updated to compliance with Version 2.2. How does this affect manufacturers?
On: May 20, 2019 By: Brad Blank
The Mystery of Building Product Specification
The word mystery is derived from Middle English, French, and Latin. In ancient Greek, the word mystery was defined as a secret rite. A mystery is something secret or unexplainable, an obscure puzzle, or a secret craft or trade. Building product specification can be a mystery for novices entering the construction industry.
On: May 14, 2019 By: Stacie Townsend
What is E-Waste and Should We Care?
In January 2019, the World Economic Forum released a publication, A New Circular Vision for Electronics: Time for a Global Reboot. It is in support of The E-Waste Coalition, a group of seven UN entities that have joined forces to address the e-waste challenge. E-waste is one of the biggest challenges of the world economy and climate change, and its current system of production and consumption is in need of an overhaul.

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