Testimonials
LEED
“The built-in spec sections in SpecLink pertaining to LEED certification saved us a tremendous amount of time. We were able to ‘toggle’ back and forth from section to section to see the appropriate LEED requirements for each one—it was a huge benefit and time-saver.”
Content
“We like the fact that so much expert content is included in the database and it is updated on a regular basis. This helps to make every project we do with SpecLink our best project!”
Reference standards
“The automated reference standards are helpful by not only saving time required to obtain the correct standard, but also in providing a source and a crosscheck for new standards that need to be investigated.”
Intelligent links
“It’s very intuitive and easy to use. SpecLink links related paragraphs and uses simple traffic signals — red, yellow, green — to prompt us with smart questions and suggestions that identify issues and prevent turning on something that will create a conflict later in the body of the spec.”
LEED
“SpecLink highlighted all LEED requirements throughout the project and was extremely helpful in identifying what we needed.”
Edit by inclusion
“The primary feature is turning off paragraphs instead of deleting them. If the spec needs to change over the course of a project, you simply turn the needed paragraphs back on. This is so much simpler than the other way! I would strongly recommend SpecLink for any design firm—large or small.”
Office Masters/database
"SpecLink provides a large number of ready-to-use specifications in an automated, intelligent database. We build on this database to create our own office masters that incorporate our own preferences and experience.”
Intelligent links, database
“We can add our own links—that greatly increases automation. And the ability to change the project name, headers, footers, and the page format just once for the entire document is great.”
“We estimate a 40% time saving using SpecLink that allows for more time we can dedicate to research and better coordination.”
Editing by inclusion/reducing errors and omissions
“The ease of copying the office master into individual projects and then turning required sections ‘on’ and ‘off ’ saves so much time. Because the system is so easy to understand, it significantly cuts down on the errors and omissions common to previous methods … Our entire spec writing process was greatly simplified by SpecLink!”
"We like SpecLink very much. It is doing what we need it to do. We would, and do, recommend SpecLink to other firms."
Office Masters
“The software is quite easy to learn. In the hands of an experienced architect/specifier, the creation of a project specification can be lightening fast. For the novice user or intern architect, SpecLink allows them to access our corporate knowledge in a powerful way.”
“SpecLink is a great foundation for any company's specification creation process. When compared with our 'old' system, SpecLink does everything so much faster and easier.”
Speed and efficiency
“We now have an easier, faster way to produce and print specifications. The ease of reporting makes construction administration easier—and that alone has made a huge difference in how long it takes us to produce specifications.”
Office Masters
“Our Office Master is an evolving document. We created the Office Master and had a team edit it so it contained what was typical for various project types. As the master has developed, we can easily add updates to all future projects.”
Office Masters
“Capturing our corporate construction knowledge into our master spec becomes a valuable communication tool for our outside specification consultants.”
“(SpecLink) has powerful capabilities for building in corporate knowledge.”
Office Masters and database
“SpecLink gives us the ability to seamlessly assimilate a tremendous amount of client specific requirements, standards, procedures, and preferences."
“Working with engineering firms every day, I see SpecLink as a powerful and effective spec writing platform that continues to get us specified on more projects. In addition, the new SpecLive real-time project data dashboard is something the industry has been waiting for and provides an unprecedented level of transparency. If you’re not engaged with RIB, you’re getting left behind.”
“SpecLink and SpecLive are the game changing tools the building industry has been waiting for! RIB has provided a perfectly balanced solution between manufacturers and specifiers."
“Having a tool like RIB SpecLink, where we’re included in the specifications, really helps us connect with the architects—and helps our products get specified.”
“One of the things that makes RIB a leader in the industry is the people and the technology. The willingness to work with me as a client, and as a manufacturer, to put us in the right place, at the right time. To be in front of the right people.
It works. We’ve seen the results. We can measure the ROI relative to opportunities towards creating new relationships.”
“RIB has one of the most professional teams I have ever worked with … They did not disappear as soon as the product setup was done, but continued the relationship, training, support, and outreach … Nice to know you can always have a resource to call when questions and needs arise.”
“RIB is very innovative, and a leader in the industry with their user-friendliness and their specification software. We find RIB SpecLink very beneficial for promoting our products and educating the architects. We find it very easy for the architects to locate our products in the correct specification sections, and implement them into their projects.”
“We use SpecLink to get to the target audience. It gets our products specified. We see benefits from a lead generation perspective. It’s a great marketing tool to have our products on the front line for our customers.”
“Getting specified is our primary goal and objective. We manufacture a highly specified product, and RIB helps us get specified.”