Joe, as others have said, you have been furnished a "list of features", not a construction specification. Such lists may often be as misleading and confusing for what they omit as for what they claim to proscribe. The language of your construction contract will determine the extent to which your "features" list governs and is binding, including recourse (if any) for errors, omissions and disagreements. For examples of construction specifications, visit the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI). Here's the Wiki definition for "Specification--Technical Standard". A key element of a legitimate specification is its three parts for each and every area of Work--General, Products and Execution: Construction specifications in North America Specifications in North America form part of the contract documents that accompany and govern the construction of a building. The guiding master document is the latest edition of MasterFormat. It is a consensus document that is jointly sponsored by two professional organisations: Construction Specifications Canada and Construction Specifications Institute. While there is a tendency to believe that "Specs overrule Drawings" in the event of discrepancies between the text document and the drawings, the actual intent��"made explicit in the contract between the Owner and the Contractor��"is for the drawings and specifications to be complementary, together providing the information required for a complete facility. The Specifications fall into 50 Divisions, or broad categories of work results involved in construction. The Divisions are subdivided into Sections, each one addressing a narrow scope of the construction work. For instance, firestopping is addressed in Section 078400 - Firestopping. It forms part of Division 07, which is Thermal and Moisture Protection. Division 07 also addresses building envelope and fireproofing work. Each Section is subdivided into three distinct Parts: "General", "Products" and "Execution". The MasterFormat system can be successfully applied to residential, commercial, civil, and industrial construction. Specifications can be either "performance-based", whereby the specifier restricts the text to stating the performance that must be achieved by the completed work, or "prescriptive", whereby the specifier indicates specific products, vendors and even contractors that are acceptable for each workscope. Most construction specifications are a combination of performance-based and prescriptive types, naming acceptable manufacturers and products while also specifying certain standards and design criteria that must be met. While North American specifications are usually restricted to broad descriptions of the work, European ones can include actual work quantities, including such things as area of drywall to be built in square metres, like a bill of materials. This type of specification is a collaborative effort between a specwriter and a quantity surveyor. This approach is unusual in North America, where each bidder performs a quantity survey on the basis of both drawings and specifications. Although specifications are usually issued by the architect's office, specwriting itself is undertaken by the architect and the various engineers or by specialist specwriters. Specwriting is often a distinct professional trade, with professional certifications such as "Certified Construction Specifier" (CCS) through the professional organizations noted above. Specwriters are either employees of or sub-contractors to architects, engineers, or construction management companies. Specwriters frequently meet with manufacturers of building materials who seek to have their products specified on upcoming construction projects so that contractors can include their products in the estimates leading to their proposals. Good luck on your project.

Okay ladies now is the time to get rid of all those partially used sticker sheets!!!!!! Send in as many partially used up, almost gone, half modules, one or two mambi kid, etc.. as you would like swapped out and I will do my best to swap them out as fairly as possible. PLEASE put at least your initals on the backs of these stickers so I don't send you back the same sheets! Also include in your MAILER (do not post it here) a do not send, and a wish list, that I will TRY to go by, for example:. No girl items, prefer boy themes.... no kids themes, prefer adult... etc... I can only work with what is sent in though, so please know that I am limited here in that respect. I will do my best to swap out sticker sheets that have close to the same amount of stickers left remaining on the sheets, but that is going to be kinda difficult, so please if you are going to be really picky forgo this swap, for both of our peace of minds! Due date for this swap is: Oct 10, since all you have to do is ship them. PLEASE no torn, or unusable stickers, and to cut down on the mailing costs please cut off the unused or blank portions of these sticker sheets. ( If possible) Send a SASE for the return of your newly swapped out partial sheets, NO metered mail. Please email me for my address if you don't already have it. NO reward (aka great job, teacher type stickers please) and they must be scrapbook suitable and AF. No more than 5 of the same partial sticker sheet so there is a nice assortment for everyone. Love Penny A.

scot, all of that info is indeed available, however you unfortunately will not find one easy source with all of the info. Okna and Himark have all of the relevant energy numbers (u-factor, air leakage, design pressure, etc) posted right on their website. If you want verifiable data rather than just trusting the pros that post here, you can get all of the thermal data from NFRC.org. For Structural data (Air leakage, dp, etc), you can request a structural data test report from each manufacturer (or from one of their dealers, as some manufacturers won't deal directly with consumers). On STC, that is something that you'll need to get in that manner as well. I'd confirm mmarsel's sentiments, that those are indeed elite choices that you are considering. Best of luck in you research, please feel free to post back with additional questions.

Love it shead! And I'm now reading the book Virgil posted above... for the 3rd time. I've had it a long time, well it's actually my dad's copy, but it's been a while!!