Unified Facilities Guide Specifications (UFGS)

Working Group Meeting

October 31 - November 1, 2006

Kennedy Space Center, Florida

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Attendees:

Frank Der, NASA

Steven P. Freitas, USACE (Sacramento)

Pete Rossbach, USACE (Washington)

Sheron Belcher, USACE (Huntsville)

Carl Kersten, NAVFAC (Norfolk)

Sherri McMillion, NAVFAC (Norfolk)

Pat Robinson, InDyne

Jim Whitehead, InDyne

Cheryl Fitz-Simon, InDyne

Rick Hatcher, SGS

Richard Hungate, SGS

Introduction

Carl Kersten , NAVFAC

• Opened the meeting by welcoming everyone.

Meeting Objectives:
	Unification of UFGS 01 33 00 Submittal Procedures
	Unification of Division 01 Assignments From November 2005 Meeting
	UFGS General Scope Note Regarding Editing of Section
	Status of Agreement On Reference Identifiers (RID)
	UMRL Policy
		Duplication of Documents
		Status of Maintenance Contract
		Schedule And Procedure For Updating
	MasterFormat 2004 Implementation Issues
	Identify 25 Groups Of UFGS For Unification By NASA (Navy Contract)
	Database Rotation
		NASA
		Army
		NIBS
	Review UFGS Template
	UFGS Conversion Matrix
	NAVFAC Roofing Sections
	UFGS PDF File
	Informing Database Managers Of Discipline Working Group Activities
	Action Items
Discussion Summary:
Subject 1: Unification of UFGS 01 33 00 Submittal Procedures
	Rick Hatcher summarized the way the 01 33 00 unification process was done.
		Originally, the 3 Sections for each agency were combined into one file.
		Merged portions of the section related to how a contractor processes the submittals.
		Agency process could not be unified because each agency has their own unique way.
	SGS distributed the new section for review.
	Steve Freitas responded in an email that he did not like the use of agency editor options via notes and brackets and wanted it done using Army, Navy and NASA tailoring options.
	Steve Freitas stated the notes addressing actions in following paragraphs should be moved and included within the paragraph being addressed. Use "Delete this paragraph" instead of "Delete the following paragraph." This will assure that the note will be removed when the appropriate action is taken. Otherwise, people may subsequently "delete the following paragraph" until none remain.
	NASA and Army agreed that we are on the right track, but it still required some work.
	Sheri McMillion commented that a lot of the Navy's process is very similar to NASA's. Possibly those areas could be unified between NASA and Navy using the tailoring options.