{"id":847237,"date":"2026-08-05T17:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847237\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T17:52:11","slug":"hks-uses-visispecs-to-support-project-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/847237\/","title":{"rendered":"HKS Uses VisiSpecs To Support Project Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VisiView_6.webp\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1003425046\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1003425046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/VisiView_6.webp\" alt=\"VisiSpecs\" width=\"1409\" height=\"871\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1003425046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy Chalkline.<\/p>\n<p>Design firm HKS is using Chalkine\u2019s VisiSpecs architectural and engineering software to improve its co-ordination of specifications, to streamline documentation workflows and to support delivery across a diverse project portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>The software allows HKS to integrate its construction specs with building information modelling (BIM) while working within a familiar Microsoft (MS) Word environment. Doc Key Filtering helps create checklists with linked paragraphs and text to automate editing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisiSpecs has helped us improve consistency throughout our specification process,\u201d says Karl Sonnier, principal architect at HKS. \u201cThe functionality has made it easier to produce accurate, co-ordinated documents and establish a more efficient workflow across our projects.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image courtesy Chalkline. Design firm HKS is using Chalkine\u2019s VisiSpecs architectural and engineering software to improve its co-ordination&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-847237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}