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12 C h a p t e r 2 Performance specifications emphasize desired outcomes and results, challenging owners and their industry partners to think in terms of user needs and to recognize that more than one solution may achieve the project objectives. Incorporating such concepts into a specification represents a distinct departure from today's build-to-print culture and demands a new approach to specification writing, contract administration, and construction execution.
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13 advancement of performance specifications in a particular topic area. The literature review effort itself entailed collecting and reviewing reports, specifications, contract documents, and similar information to determine the status of performance specifying in each of the topic areas considered.
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14 specifications themselves, some steps are more critical to certain topic areas than to others. For example, although project delivery approach (Step 3)
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15 Figure 2.2. Performance specification development process.
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16 Why Use performance Specifications? Successful implementation of performance specifications will likely require a departure from traditional project development and delivery processes.
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17 Delphi Analysis Although the survey method is a detailed and systematic method of data collection, response rates can be poor and the participating experts can leave out vital information. To bolster this technique, the team applied the Delphi method.
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18 a performance specification is in a sense a risk management exercise designed to identify, allocate, and mitigate the risks associated with implementing a performance specification. The generally accepted approach to project-level risk management -- as described in FHWA's Guide to Risk Assessment (Ashley et al.
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