Specifications Made Simple
RIB SpecLink
SpecLink is a cloud-based, centralized specification software that uses automated workflows, smart linking technology, and CSI-standard content to create a dynamic, credible “single source of truth” throughout the construction lifecycle.
At RIB Software, we understand the importance of ownership and control over the content you create. You can rest assured that any content you generate, edit, or save using RIB SpecLink remains entirely your own. We respect the value of the ‘Instruments of Service’ and view rich and unfettered content as an enabler of collaboration, knowledge sharing, and, ultimately, the growth of the built environment.
Why Choose RIB SpecLink?
Features and Functionality
Streamlined Specification Workflows
Holistic solution streamlines and eliminates existing workflows via specification management in all phases of design and construction on a single platform.
DOWNLOAD BROCHUREMobile And Web-Based Access
Solutions accessible on any browser-enabled device allow project teams to streamline communications by viewing, sharing, editing and commenting on the go.
DOWNLOAD BROCHUREIntegrated Service Platform
Robust customer support, implementation and close relationship management contributes to customer stickiness.
DOWNLOAD BROCHUREComprehensive, Current Content Database
Continuously updated database of 910+ content sections feature relevant BPMs, 3,000+ reference standards, sustainable design provisions, and more.
DOWNLOAD BROCHUREAdvanced Back-End Technology
Intelligent, linked database helps users edit specs up to 70% faster, automating specification creation and updates while minimizing errors and omissions.
DOWNLOAD BROCHURECoordinated Design Process
Full integration with Revit BIM software; connect specs and models within SpecLink to visualize and adapt specifications with models in real-time.
DOWNLOAD BROCHUREBest In Class Content
SpecLink holds a 10+ year strategic relationship with the Construction Specifications Institute as their only construction software partner. Our content is built with their best practices and standards in mind.
DOWNLOAD BROCHURESuitable for
Architects
Speed up spec production and edit faster with templates, checklists and intelligent linking. Reduce the time and effort required to develop project specs and enforce design standards.
Owners
SpecLink offers a new approach to design standards and specifications that sets your organization apart from the competition with digital experiences that put an end to siloed data and disconnected workflows. Oversee and manage permissions for various teams with permission-based controls for every role. With SpecLink, you can save time, minimize risk, collaborate, and stay in control.
Engineers
Stay up-to-date with industry standards, regulations, and codes, ensuring that projects meet required criteria. Accurate and well-defined specifications lead to better cost estimates, reduced change orders, and more efficient resource allocation, ultimately saving both time and money. A digital trail of project specifications is invaluable for auditing, reporting, and legal purposes.
Improve your efficiency in the building process with SpecLink
START MY FREE TRIAL NOWSpecLink Cloud
With SpecLink Cloud, you can produce specifications 70% faster by collaborating across teams.
- Create specs up to 70% faster.
- Speed up editing tasks.
- Improve spec coordination.
- Minimize errors and omissions.
- Synchronize specs with BIM models
- Rely on hassle-free automatic updates
- Simplify sustainable design certification
- Easily transition from outline to short-form to full specs
- Visualize changes as your project evolves from any web-enabled device.
Produce specifications 70% faster by collaborating across teams
START MY SPECLINK FREE TRIAL NOWFAQs About SpecLink Cloud & Specification Software
Below are frequently asked questions about SpecLink Cloud software. For more information, view our online SpecLink tutorials and videos.
The core functionality of construction specifications software is to create and manage specifications. This software allows users to develop detailed specifications for every aspect of a construction project, from methods and materials to the relevant industry standards, codes and regulations. Specification software provides templates and standardized language, ensuring consistency and transparency in the documentation.
Construction specification software has rapidly gained traction as the favored tool of architects, engineers, contractors, and project managers. It ensures that all stakeholders have access to accurate, up-to-date and version-controlled information. By automating the specification process, specs software enhances efficiency, reduces misunderstandings and errors, and improves overall project quality.
Time Saving
Manual specification writing can be time-consuming. With specification management software, you can create, edit, and manage specifications more efficiently, saving valuable time during the design and construction phases.
Improved collaboration
Effective collaboration is vital for the success of a construction project. Specification software facilitates better coordination among project stakeholders, including architects, engineers, and project managers. The spec software provides a centralized platform for sharing and reviewing specifications, ensuring that everyone is aligned.
Reliable version control
Keeping track of specification versions is essential. Specification management software allows you to manage revisions, track changes, and ensure everyone is working with the latest information.
Precise cost control
Accurate specifications prevent costly mistakes during construction. Spec software provides the tools to specify materials, finishes, and installation methods precisely – reducing the risk of rework or disputes.
Better compliance and standards
Specification software helps to enforce industry standards, building codes, and regulations. It ensures that construction specifications align with legal requirements.
Cloud technology
Sharing up-to-date information is easier when you’re in the cloud. Keep your entire team on the same page throughout the entire design and review process. SpecLink Cloud makes it simple to comment on projects and easily coordinate plans and specs from a common data environment.
BIM integration
Dramatically simplify coordination between specification writers and designers working in Revit. BIM integration allows you to seamlessly connect specs and models within SpecLink Cloud. Visualize and adapt to changes as the design evolves, and easily monitor their impact.
In terms of innovative tools like BIM integration and cloud technology, SpecLink Cloud can do more than SpecLink-E. While SpecLink Cloud did not have some of SpecLink-E’s more peripheral tools at launch, all SpecLink-E functionality is available now.
New features have been added to SpecLink Cloud continuously since its launch. Speak with someone at RIB about the differences.
SpecLink delivers the industry’s best content through the most advanced software on the market. Built upon a robust master database, rather than static word processing files, you’ll get advanced capabilities that dramatically enhance your workflow.
1. Editing is faster, easier and more accurate in SpecLink.
Create specs up to 70% faster when you edit by inclusion, rather than deleting text you don’t need. As you make decisions within your project, intelligent links automatically include related requirements and exclude options that are contradictory. You can customize your own intelligent links to improve your efficiency and accuracy even more.
2. Work with the industry’s most comprehensive, up-to-date master database.
SpecLink’s intelligent database and automated reports help you avoid errors and omissions, and makes it simple to stay current with hassle-free, automatic updates. Continuous updates made by RIB’s in-house design professionals never disrupt workflow or affect your edits.
3. Synchronize specs with BIM models.
SpecLink is the industry’s first specification software to seamlessly synchronize your specifications with your Revit models and model objects. View your integrated BIM models and immediately evaluate the impact of changes as the design evolves.
Yes. Even if you can use your office master or a previous project spec without making any changes at all, preparing specs with our specifications software is much faster than word processing thanks to the following features:
Easy global formatting
Make changes to page format, paragraph numbering, headers/footers and more throughout your entire project—instantly, from one place. You can also produce a table of contents that includes page counts with a single click of the mouse.
Edit by inclusion
Editing by selecting text rather than deleting it dramatically speeds up editing. Simply select text to include from a user-friendly checklist. Unselected text is always available for future use, which makes it simple to re-use and modify previous projects.
Intelligent links
Related text is automatically triggered as you make selections. More than 300,000 color-coded links automatically include relevant provisions (green), exclude incompatible options (red), and highlight other related options for your consideration (yellow). You can also build your own custom linking.
SpecLink’s CSI-standard content, automated workflows and smart linking technology make it the right choice in specification management software.
SpecLink offers many exclusive, time-saving features that give you powerful advantages over other specification-writing methods.
- Manage your specification project in a single database, rather than dozens of files. You can even generate short form or outline specs from the same project file you’ll use later for final construction documents.
- Context-sensitive “notes to the specifier” provide expert insight to enhance your decision-making process. View the notes in a separate window, and add your own. Notes never “clutter up” the screen, and you don’t have to delete or hide them before printing.
- Improve coordination and streamline collaboration with SpecLink’s cloud technology. Easily coordinate project plans and specs from a common data environment. Assess the impact of design changes immediately via BIM integration.
- SpecLink’s powerful relational database technology allows you to automatically generate and print 30 different intuitive reports for any project, including lists of required submittals, manufacturers and more. Build your own custom reports for additional quality assurance and project insight.
Easily incorporate LEED and other sustainable design requirements (including LEED v4) in SpecLink. Automatically activate the appropriate provisions when you select from commonly used design solutions.
SpecLink contains the industry’s most comprehensive, up-to-date database of master specifications. Our on-staff design experts continuously update and add to a robust database that currently includes more than 1,100 sections spanning virtually all building disciplines.
The database also features lists of relevant building product manufacturers, appropriate reference standards, sustainable design provisions (including LEED v4), product selection guidance, and more.
SpecLink conforms to the 2004 – 2016 update edition of CSI’s MasterFormat™ and the CSI 3-Part SectionFormat™. A handy reference to legacy MF95 Section Number and Name is also provided.
Reference Standards
SpecLink’s master specifications are the most up-to-date of any specification software on the market. Our master database includes citations to more than 3,000 reference standards, all of which are continuously verified and audited annually.
Our full-time staff of expert specification writers is augmented by independent consultants, user feedback, and a comprehensive technical review committee to ensure that all updates are accurate, comprehensive, and timely.
Hundreds of important changes are made each quarter, as opposed to word processing systems that are updated every six or seven years. SpecLink includes hyperlinks for more information about every reference standard, including access to all documents available through IHS, Inc.’s standards store or the issuing agency.
Take advantage of a free trial to see firsthand how much faster and easier you can produce specifications with SpecLink.
Explore several unlocked sections and access free, unlimited support during your trial—including consultation with a specification writer on our staff.
SpecLink is available in three versions. The software can be installed for a single user, on a network, or on RIB’s cloud servers.
Catalogs are available for architecture, structural engineering, civil engineering, landscape architecture, mechanical engineering, and electrical engineering. A “basics” catalog is also available, which is suitable for low-risk or small project specifications.
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