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About Us And The UNIFORMAT II Construction Management System
As a construction management system, UNIFORMAT II is so ingenious. The ASTM E1557 Standard provides a common structure seamlessly linking the building program, specifications, and estimates.
Its integration in the design process results in improved communications and coordination among all project participants, an accelerated design, and significantly increased productivity.
The classification for building elements and related sitework provides the Project Manager with an essential tool to control project scope, cost, time and quality. No wonder the people behind uniformat.com are so enthusiastic about seeing it more widely used:
Huxley and Charette have collaborated for decades on the value engineering and life cycle costing aspects of construction projects. Both are active long-time members of ASTM committees developing standards for the construction industry.
In particular, for as long as the ASTM E1557 standard has been in force, Huxley and Charette have worked together energetically and with unwavering commitment to maintain and advocate the UNIFORMAT II elemental classification.
Robert P. Charette, PE, CVS, PQS
Robert Charette is a professional engineer and an adjunct professor at Concordia University. He was Co-Chairman of the task group that developed the ASTM UNIFORMAT II Standard Classification for Building Elements (E 1557-96), and is qualified as a Certified Value Specialist (CVS) by the Society of American Value Engineers (SAVE).
Charette is a member of the ASTM Sub-Committee E06.81 on Building Economics and the Canadian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (CIQS).
He is co-author of "UNIFORMAT II for Preliminary Design and Planning" -- Chapter 25 of the R.S. Means Square Foot Estimating Manual, and the Life Cycle Costing Section of the annual R.S. Means "Facilities Maintenance and Repair Cost Data" Manual.
As a part of his interest in continuing education, he has presented numerous seminars on Design Cost Analysis, Value Engineering, Life Cycle Costing, and UNIFORMAT II Applications to organizations and universities in Canada and the U.S.
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Anthony L. Huxley, MSc, PQS
Anthony Huxley is a specialist in providing cost planning, cost control, estimating, scheduling, risk management, and forensic review services in the pre-contract and post-contract stages of building design and construction.
He has more than 48 years experience in the cost planning, cost control, estimating and scheduling of construction projects, in Canada and overseas in both the public and private sectors of the construction and property development industry.
His experience is uniquely suited to the forensic review of project scope, estimates, schedules, project management and design services, methodology and contractual obligation.
Key to Huxley's contribution to uniformat.com, he is a member of ASTM, The American Association for Testing Materials, an active member of Sub-Committee E06.81 - Building Economics, and Task Group Chair for UNIFORMAT II Elemental Classifications.
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Construction Management System
As a Construction Management System, the UNIFORMAT II Standard ASTM E1557 is without equal. The original classification was developed jointly by the General Services Administration (GSA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 1972 for estimating and design cost analysis.
UNIFORMAT II, first issued by ASTM in 1993, is an enhanced version developed by a task group that included amongst others CSI, GSA, AACE, the Tri-Services, R.S. Means and CIQS. Robert Charette has been an active ASTM committee member involved in the development of the standard from the very beginning.
The latest standard is more comprehensive than the original, particularly with respect to the mechanical and sitework elements. Thus the format is suitable for other applications, such as Schematic Phase Preliminary Project Descriptions (PPD).
UNIFORMAT type classifications have been recommended by the Construction Specifications Institute/Construction Specifications Canada (CSI/CSC) to structure schematic phase specifications (PPD), and by the Design-Build Institute of America for performance specifications.
Increasingly, UNIFORMAT is being used on projects outside North America as a respected universal standard and construction management system to control the project scope, cost, time and quality of building projects.