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Supporting architects to bring design to reality.

Vivian Volz, Architectural Specifications supports architects to bring design to reality.  VVAS serves primarily as project specifier for architect-led projects. Our full-service, on-your-team, approach to specification services is the heart of VVAS. We work closely with architects to ensure that the design intent and project requirements are communicated in the specifications and coordinated with the drawings. Our service doesn't stop at the Issue for Construction; architects count on us for assistance with substitution requests and submittal interpretation during construction.

In the course of preparing specifications, we:

  • Establish performance and sustainability criteria

  • Seek out products and systems to meet the criteria

  • Recommend materials and systems

  • Integrate compatible systems

  • Document the team's selections

  • Help enforce the criteria and the selections during contract administration

Recent Projects
Casa Adelante at 2060 Folsom

San Francisco, CA

Mithun & Y.A. Studios

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Pleasant Hill Library

Pleasant Hill, CA

Bohlin Cywinski Jackson

IIDA Norcal Honor Award

SLAC Science and Users Support Building

Palo Alto, CA

STUDIOS

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Articles
You might be a specifier!

There will always be a role for someone with a knack for organizing verbal information in design and construction work.

Zero-VOC: Beyond the Headlines

For most projects, a paint that claims "zero-VOC" is equal in quality and compliance to one that claims "less than 50 g/L VOC."

Perot Museum: Mistake or Science Lesson?

Is this naïve design gone wrong... or a clever demonstration of concrete's need to shrink as it cures?

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