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: Dec 19, 2017 By: Brad Blank
Is Your Health Product Declaration (HPD) Compliant?
The Health Product Declaration (HPD) is one of the most requested specification resources in the AEC industry. Building product manufacturers can contribute one point in LEED v4 with a LEED compliant HPD.
On: Dec 14, 2017 By: Brad Blank
How Architecture Based Video Games Could Affect Product Specifications
Many of you may have grown up with Atari, Nintendo, and Sony Playstation game systems. From Pac Man and Super Mario Brothers, to the Final Fantasy and Elder Scrolls Series, gamers have enjoyed challenging puzzles, adventures, and strategy games. Over the past decades, video games have become more complex, immersive, and interactive.
On: Dec 12, 2017 By: Brad Blank
3 Ways to Get Your Building Product Specified from Office Visits
“A direct presentation to decision makers remains one of the most effective ways to market your product. The interaction between Design Professional and Building Product representative allows for the exchange of ideas and answering of questions,” says Ron Blank, specifications guru and industry leader. Let’s review three types of office visits that can help get products specified.
On: Dec 4, 2017 By: Brad Blank
The Secret to Increasing Participation for An AIA CE Course By 30%
Why is your competitor’s online education course outperforming your course by thirty percent or more? Why is your competition getting specified on more projects than you? AIA continuing education is an excellent tool to reach architects, specifiers, interior designers, engineers, and contractors.
On: Nov 29, 2017 By: Brad Blank
3 Reasons Why Your AIA Continuing Education Puts People to Sleep
Building product manufacturers with the best intentions can create a AIA continuing education course that does their product and brand a disservice. How many Powerpoint presentations have you witnessed that nearly put you to sleep? Death by Powerpoint is a common saying about presentations that are boring, uninspired, and drab. There are several reasons why AIA continuing education can fail to deliver it’s intended outcome. Let’s explore three of them-

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GreenCE is a USGBC Education Partner that offers the only free LEED exam prep in the country. The LEED certification course includes a free LEED exam study guide, free LEED practice questions, and LEED certification tips and strategies. In addition, GreenCE offers free courses for LEED APs to obtain their LEED BD+C hours, LEED ID+C hours, and LEED O+M hours. Most GBCI courses are free and in video format.

GreenCE is an AIA Education Provider and offers free AIA online courses. The free AIA courses are sponsored by building product manufacturers. In addition, the platform offers barrier-free ADA courses for Texas and California architects. Texas barrier-free online courses and California Accessibility courses meet state requirements. TX ADA courses and CA ADA courses are created by the top ADA experts in the country.

Building product manufacturers can get specified by using GreenCE services. GreenCE develops AIA and LEED courses for product manufacturers to educate architects. The online architect courses help build brand awareness about building products. In addition, GreenCE hosts manufacturer webinars for 200-300 architects at a time. The AIA webinars and LEED webinars are free for architects who can learn about various products.

Finally, GreenCE helps manufacturers develop Health Product Declarations (HPDs), LEED v4 product documentation, mindful MATERIALS documentation, Google Portico documentation, and Declare Labels. We value our relationships with design professionals and building product manufacturers. They are crucial to our success.