What’s New Water Heater Stands and Platforms If your project requires a Water Heater platform or stand you can now specify one through the ATS Spec Tool. The water heater accessories from HoldRite are third-party tested and proven to connect, elevate and secure water heaters so they use less floor space and protect against damage from earthquakes.  ATS Spec Tool will help find the best platform based on the Water Heater you specify. To learn more about the Water Heater Platforms click here.  On the ATS Spec Tool, simply search for Water Heaters and all  the possible stands and platforms [...]

What’s New Include or Exclude Drawing Labels? Spec Tool users can now include or exclude drawing labels when downloading or printing documents.  Here is how it works: When on the “Download Spec Documents’ page. Click on the ‘CSI 3 Part Spec’ tab on the bottom of the ‘Print Format’ list. Check or uncheck the box ‘Include all drawing labels in spec document print’. What's Improved Never Accidentally Delete an Office Spec Tool admin users are protected from the dreaded ‘I accidentally deleted an office with active users!!’. Additional tooltip in the Team Management page to safeguard against deletion of offices with [...]

What's New American Standard is introducing a fresh Cool Sunrise through its cutting-edge new finishes American Standard has expanded their offering of finishes for both bath and kitchen faucets and they are now available on Spec Tool. Matt Black is now offered in almost all of their collections covering a range of styles from traditional to contemporary. And Brushed Cool Sunrise (.GN0) has been added as a new finish (similar to the the finish offered by Grohe)  To access these new finishes simply look for the bath and kitchen faucet and click on the finish. ATS Spec Tool will configure the [...]

What's New ATS Spec can now help with HVAC System Design ATS Spec Tool is  thrilled to welcome First Co., a leader, innovator, and trusted supplier of a broad range of high quality HVAC products for the multi-family industry to the ATS SpecTool.  Products available include Air Handler units, Condensers and more. To see the full product offering simply choose HVAC systems on Spec Tool. Welcome to Our New Naming Conventions  We've always believed that keeping our platform easy-to-use, visually appealing, and user-centric is the key to providing an exceptional experience. With some of your feedback we've recently made some significant [...]

What's New Downloading multiple formats all at once Downloading your complete specification on SpecTool is now much easier. We made adjustments to our tool to allow our users to download multiple formats at once, compared to our one document at a time option before. Your download button will now default to be grayed out, until products are selected, then you will be able to click on the download button. After clicking on the download button, you will see all the download formats that are available on Spec Tool with a check box to indicate which format you want to download. You [...]

What’s Improved More ways to get your project started. ATS has created ATS Master Templates which is a list of recommended products based on project applications or verticals. Now any portion of the complete  Master template can be copied into a Project, Master or spec.  Instead of the traditional way of creating a master, and choosing one of many templates ATS has to offer, Users are now able to use the “Copy To” function located on the top right of the page to copy products from a template to a Masters. The templates can be located in your Masters tab on [...]

What’s New Introducing Murdock Drinking Fountains ATS SpecTool is pleased to announce the addition of Murdock to the platform. Murdock products are now available to ATS SpecTool users to add to their project specifications giving architects, designers and engineers a valuable option to be added to their projects. Murdock Manufacturing has been designing, manufacturing, and selling bottle fillers, drinking fountains, water coolers, hydrants, pet fountains, and more since 1853. Click here to learn more. Creating Master just got easier with Templates! Was creating a Master too time consuming? We now offer templates to base  your office master. They are available to [...]

What's New Most Specified comes first Too many options and do not know which one to choose for your job? Let us help you with that. We now offer the ability to Sort by  “Most Specified Series” , rearranging the listing of products to show you which series of that product category is being most specified from across all SpecTool users. Have more questions about these features or how to use ATS SpecTool?  Click here to Book a demo.

What’s New Creating Master Templates just got more easier Was creating a Master too time consuming? We now offer templates for your office master. They are available to use when creating a new master on SpecTool. Templates for different applications will be available for you to use as a starting point, copy recommended products from the template, then make adjustments, rather than creating a whole new master from scratch. To use this feature, click on create a master from your dashboard. After inputting the Basic Master Info and selecting the building classification, you need to select a recommended template. Now you [...]