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: Sep 14, 2017 By: Brad Blank
How the New PCR Program May Affect Your LEED v4 EPD
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) play an important role in LEED v4. EPDs are created according to internationally harmonized standards and are 3rd party verified, ensuring that the results for products are valid.
On: Sep 6, 2017 By: Brad Blank
3 Ways Building Product Manufacturers Can Clean House
“Just as the gardener, to promote vigorous new growth and radiant blossoms, prunes the deadwood off the rose bush, so do great leaders who get rid of all deadwood employees,” says Jeffery Fox in How to Be A Fierce Competitor. Fox argues that deadwood employees don’t produce results, don’t attract customers, and should be fired. Building product manufacturers that cut low performing employees send a message to the rest of the company- performance matters.
On: Sep 1, 2017 By: Brad Blank
3 Reasons Why Architects Specify Certain Building Products
Why do architects specify certain building products? Why do project teams select certain types of masonry products, insulation, or paint? According to a recent study by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), there are several reasons for an architect’s specification decisions.
On: Aug 25, 2017 By: Brad Blank
How the FITWEL Certification System Can Help Building Product Manufacturers
It seems every week, a new building certification system is released. Most building product manufacturers are familiar with LEED, Green Globes, and WELL rating systems. A new healthy building certification system called Fitwel was released last year.
On: Aug 21, 2017 By: Brad Blank
How LEED Courses Help Building Product Manufacturers Get Specified
LEED v4 was launched in November 2013. Yet, many building product manufacturers are still unprepared in today’s marketplace. Despite several new opportunities, many building product manufacturers haven’t developed Health Product Declarations (HPDs) for LEED v4. Other companies have failed to update their LEED product documentation from LEED v3 to LEED v4.

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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.