Specifications management is about creating successful buildings that match client needs and objectives. It starts with identifying specifications concerning quality, costs and time. It continues throughout the project with evaluating whether design proposals and solutions meet these specifications. ICOP can help you with your specifications management. Using advanced data modelling tools, our approach provides unparalleled possibilities for developing, communicating and verifying project specifications.

The total scope of specifications management encompasses five activities:

1.  Defining specifications
Based on a thorough analysis of the client’s business processes, a consistent and complete set of specifications is developed.

2.  Communicating specifications
Communication of specifications to architects and other construction professionals is brought to a higher level using an always up-to-date web-based database.

3.  Testing and verifying specifications
When the specifications have been translated into concrete design proposals, these are systematically tested against the client’s original set of demands.

4.  Monitoring specifications
Once a building is built, the specifications are used to monitor building performance or the performance of facility management contractors.

5.  Developing libraries
For professional clients, the project’s specifications are captured in specifications libraries, which they can use to create better briefs for future projects with less effort.