Davis Langdon Schumann Smith, the world’s leading specification consultancy firm, is now well established in South Africa. A specialist team, based in Johannesburg, facilitates local delivery of Specifications, in particular Africa SpecTM, which has been prepared for use by employers, architects, engineers, manufacturers and suppliers in order to:

• Improve the quality of buildings
• Reduce the occurrence of contractual claims and disputes
• Facilitate more accurate cost plans
• Ensure that clients get full value for their investments
• Protect the consultant’s design
• Assist South African consultants working overseas by providing specifications in the appropriate format in C.A.W.S/British Standards
• Bring some order and consistency to the classification of construction works
• Reduce financial and contractual risk to clients
• Improve the communications of the parties involved
• Define for each project:
  - Scope
  - Quality
  - Methodology
  - Deliverables
  - Responsibilities
• Facilitate writing of specifications in British Standards, SANS and American Standards
• Allow dynamic updating of information.