We collaborate with our team to empower them to achieve their design
intentions and sound, simple and appropriate construction.
The keys to our approach are:

• Precise, accurate, concise specifications
• Understand design intent
• Avoid unnecessary or excessive requirements
• Reflect builders current practices and need for genuine clarity
• Use friendly documents that inform the staff handling construction
• Think like an architect, write like a specifier
• Pro-active review of drawings
• Maintain an on-going relationship and be available throughout the process
• Understand our clients’ required standard of care

We understand that good specs:

• Identify and define the design intent
• Reflect the construction contract type, method and procurement process
• Define scope, quality and performance
• Identify responsibilities and methods
• Educate and inform the contract administrators
• Are consistent with current practices, regulations and standards
• Reflect the project’s micro-climate
• Are coordinated with the latest drawings and other project contract documents

Putnam Associates wrote our first “sustainable” project in 1970s for solar
hot water retrofits. We are committed to environmentally friendly
materials and processes that reflect budget constraints, real-world
methods and genuinely sustainable practices. As an organizational
member of USGBC, we are committed to enhancing the building process
and our environment. We are currently writing architectural specifications for the first Net Zero Carbon Footprint building for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts – a [proposed] LEED GOLD project.