PROJECT TOOLS · OPEN STANDARDS
For spec writers and the firms that assemble a project’s specification book.
Drawings live in a model. RFIs and submittals live in a platform. The specification still leaves the office as an email attachment, a copy no one can correct, update, or trace. SynC issues your spec as access to a revision-tracked record instead.
Every revision sealed · Every recipient on record · Free to start
STANDARD
Steel Deck
REV
7
STATUS
✓ VERIFIED
STRUCTURAL / STEEL & METAL FABRICATIONS
Base steel shall conform to ASTM A653/A653M, structural quality.
Galvanized coating shall be G60 G90 for composite floor deck.
MODIFIED · REV 7
Design thickness shall be not less than 22 gauge unless noted on the drawings.
DATASHEET
PART 1 — GENERAL
The moment a spec goes out as a PDF, the record splits. Copies can't be corrected or updated, and no one can say who holds which one. The drawings got a model. The spec got an attachment.
Where the spec says "as indicated on the drawings," the drawings often never say. No one keeps the list of what was deferred, so the gap surfaces in construction: an RFI, then a change order, then rework no one gets paid for.
Exceptions and substitutions come back as marked-up PDFs, re-typed at every hop from manufacturer to sub to contractor to engineer. Then last project's spec, conflicts and all, becomes the starting point for the next one.
The people aren’t the problem. The format is.
PART 2 — PRODUCTS
RESOLVES 1.01
Publish a revision and it is sealed. Recipients open it through a share link, free, never through an attachment. You keep a register of who has access and when they accepted, and you choose whether later addenda reach them. When the contractor says they never got the addendum, you have the record.
How distribution works→RESOLVES 1.02
Mark a requirement as deferred to the drawings and it goes on the project's checklist, along with every job value you haven't filled in yet. You work the list down before the issue date instead of reading the whole spec with a highlighter. And SynC will not publish a set whose parts have fallen behind the standard they came from.
How it works→RESOLVES 1.03
A sub's substitution request arrives attached to the requirement it concerns, tagged Comply, Deviation, Exception, or N/A, and travels back up the chain the same way. No re-typing at each hop, and no one has to remember whose comment was meant for whom.
How firms use feedback→PART 3 — EXECUTION
STEP 01
Adopt one from the open library, free to read with no account, or bring your own. Converting your office master is work we do with you, not a file you upload and hope for.
STEP 02
Pull the standard into your project. The values that change from job to job (coating, depth, gauge) go on a datasheet beside the text, and you edit a clause only where this job differs. Every change is tracked from the first save.
STEP 03
Publish a sealed revision and issue it as share links. Export a PDF where paper is required. Anyone holding the export can look up the fingerprint of exactly what was issued.
Owners→
One record of what was issued, to whom, and when.
Engineers & architects→
Write the requirement once. Get the exceptions back on the clause.
Contractors→
Bid the revision you were issued, free, and see what each addendum changed.
Manufacturer reps→
Requirements as data your quoting tools read directly.
Anyone on the project can ask: was the bus copper or aluminum, which addendum changed the fault rating, what is still unresolved. The AI reads the published record and answers with a citation to the requirement it relied on. Open the citation and you are looking at the clause, at its address, in the published revision.
It sees exactly what your account sees, nothing more.
ASK THE PROJECT
Building 400
SCOPE
YOUR ACCESS
QUESTION
Was the bus in the Building 400 panelboards supposed to be copper or aluminum?
ANSWER
Copper. The “Building 400 Panels” datasheet specifies copper bus for every panelboard in Building 400. BUILDING 400 PANELS · 2.4.1
Busbar material shall be copper.
THE OPEN LIBRARY
SynC maintains an open library of construction standards, structured to the clause and tracked by revision, free to read and export with no account. It shows the format working, and it is a place to start. Your house standards stay yours, in a private company library.
Most-read standards
Free to start, no card required. Or bring one section of your office master and we’ll walk through it with you. Twenty-five minutes, on your own specification.
Prefer to read first? Browse the open library →