BURNABY, British Columbia - ARCOM, the publisher of AIA’s MasterSpec guide specification system, has a new strategic alliance with Master Painters Institute (MPI), which will be of great interest to architects, specifiers and paint manufacturers. The two organizations have agreed to develop an innovative new web-based specification tool that combines MPI’s Architectural Decision Tree system with ARCOM’s new SpecBuilder+Expert platform, for use by MasterSpec Licensed Users
The tool will take the data from MPI’s online question and answer system, which enables paint buyers and specifiers to select appropriate paints and paint systems for 25 different types of surfaces commonly encountered in buildings, and feed that information into ARCOM’s SpecBuilder+Expert application to create MasterSpec-based painting specifications. The new tool will be available in the late fall.