PROJECT TOOLS · OPEN STANDARDS
Drawings live in a model; RFIs and submittals live in a platform. The specification still leaves the office as an email attachment — a copy nobody 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 nobody can say who holds which one. The drawings got a model; the spec got an attachment.
Where the spec defers to the drawings, the drawings often never answer — and nobody keeps the list of what was deferred. The gap surfaces in construction, as an RFI, a change order, and rework nobody 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. And last project's spec — buried conflicts included — becomes next project's starting point.
The people aren’t the problem. The format is.
PART 2 — PRODUCTS
RESOLVES 1.01
Publish a revision and it's sealed — the document can't drift after it leaves your hands. Recipients read it through share links, free, and you keep a register of who has access and when they accepted. When the contractor says they never got the addendum, you have the record.
How distribution works→RESOLVES 1.02
Every requirement the spec defers to the drawings is tracked, and the open items roll into a checklist — the spec knows what it hasn't decided. And if a standard you built on has been revised since, publishing is blocked until you reconcile it. It's a system, not a document.
How it works→RESOLVES 1.03
Anyone on a project can comment on the exact requirement they're working from — a substitution request arrives attached to the clause it concerns, not re-typed in an email chain — and comments roll up to the owner for resolution, tracked across every project.
How firms use feedback→PART 3 — EXECUTION
STEP 01
Adopt one from the open library — free to read, no account needed — or bring your own. Converting your office master is work we do with you, not a file format you inherit.
STEP 02
Pull the standard into your project, put the project-specific values in its datasheet, and edit clauses where the job differs. Every change is tracked from the start.
STEP 03
Publish a sealed revision, issue access through share links, and export clean PDFs where paper is required. Anyone holding the export can look up the fingerprint of exactly what was issued.
Anyone on the project can ask — was the bus copper or aluminum, which addendum changed the fault rating, what’s still unresolved. The AI reads the published spec and answers with a citation to the exact requirement; open it and you’re looking at the source, at its address, in the published revision.
It carries the exact access your account has — nothing more. No answer arrives without a requirement you can check it against.
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, revision-tracked, and free to read and export with no account. It’s proof the format works, and a place to start. Your house standards stay yours, in a private company library.
Browse the standards→Free to start, no card required. Or bring one section of your office master and we’ll walk it through with you — twenty-five minutes, on your own specification.
Prefer to read first? Browse the open library →