The information resource about the steel detailing industry’s practices and procedures. An essential addition to reference libraries for:
• Construction Managers
• Contractors
• Architects
• Structural Engineers
• Steel Detailing Firms

What’s inside the NISD Industry Standard?

This eighty-seven page manual consists of forty-nine pages of text and forty pages of sample form work. Derived from the consensus understanding of the steel detailing industry, this document strives to improve understanding and communication between members of the detailing community and construction industry as a whole.

Specifically, this document:
• Provides background and a history of the detailing industry and the National Institute of Steel Detailing.
• Identifies and defines the role of Steel Detailing firm in the construction project.
• Presents the business, technical and professional values and practices of the detailing industry.
• Provides an authoritative reference by defining terms, concepts and principles that have been adopted by the detailing industry.
• Outlines the rights and responsibilities of the steel detailing firm with respect to the client and the construction team.
• Provides model documents and illustrations useful in establishing business and technical practices.

Subjects and Objectives

This practical and useful document is divided into seven chapters with the following general subjects and objectives:

Chapter 1: Introduction and Commentary
Provides background and a history of the steel detailing industry and the NISD.

Chapter 2: Overview of the Steel Detailing Industry
Identifies and defines the role of the Steel Detailing firm in the construction project.

Chapter 3: Practice and Principles of agreements to provide Steel Detailing services
Presents the business, technical and professional values and practices of the steel detailing industry.  Outlines the rights and responsibilities of the Steel Detailing firm with respect to the client and the construction team.

Chapter 4: Business Operations; Framework for Providing Service
Provides an authoritative reference source, that defines terms, concepts and principles of business operations that have been adopted by the detailing industry.

Chapter 5: Managing Steel Detailing Projects
Text supporting the sample documentation for a model management system that is tailored to steel detailing projects.

Chapter 6: NISD Industry Standard Glossary of Terms

Chapter 7: Appendices
Contains a suggested Cost Accounting Standard applicable to individual cost element analysis with respect to the detailing industry.  Log of sample documents used in the project management system.

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