Greetings! We will be conducting our February Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Earned Schedule" Presented by Mark Ogg, CSI, CDT. Mark your calendars for March 8th at 12:00pm EST. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!

Building Construction Knowledge & Leadership in the Southwest

APRIL 20-22, 2017
Lodge on the Desert, Tucson, AZ

CSI Southwest Region is very excited to announce our annual educational conference in Tucson, AZ at Lodge on the Desert Hotel, April 20 – April 22, 2017.

Greetings! We will be conducting our February Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Earned Schedule" Presented by Mark Ogg, CSI, CDT. Mark your calendars for February 8th at 12:00pm EST. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!

The following members joined CSI in January. CSINext is please to congratulate the following CSI members on their continued membership!

• 3 Years - Lenora Hamilton, CSI, CDT, AIA, LEED AP, NCARB, RCI
• 5 Years - Ganapathy Nagasubramaniam, CSI, CCS, LEED AP, M. Arch
• 10 Years - Steve Tubre, CSI, CCCA
• 12 Years - Keith Robinson, FCSI, CSC, FCSC, LEED AP, RSW
• 32 Years - Lee Orosco, FCSI, CCS

Greetings! We will be conducting our January Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Coordinating Divisions 8 and 28" Presented by Brad Alexander AHC/EHC, CSI, CCPR; Matt Gelsomini, CSI, CDT and Stephen Richardson, CSI, CDT with Allegion. Mark your calendars for January 11th at 12:00pm EST. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!

In October, I published "Tegularity," a discussion of the proper term for acoustic ceiling panels. (The title came from the name for a specific type of panel edge.) Shortly thereafter, in December 2016, I received a question from Anthony Capkun, editor for Electrical Business Magazine and former editor for the Construction Specifier. He asked, "What is the correct term these days: a) Building Envelope or b) Building Enclosure?"

The following members joined CSI in December. CSINext is please to congratulate the following CSI members on their continued membership!

• 1 Year - Ric Doedens, CSI
• 8 Years - Ryan Harrington, CSI, CDT
• 22 Years - Edgardo Cruz, CSI, CDT
• 27 Years - Kent Kile, FCSI, CCPR

Greetings! We will be conducting our December Chapter Meeting and in the best CSINext tradition our Holiday party in the form of an Open Forum. This will be our 2nd annual 'State of CSI' address and we are honored to have CSI Board-Chair Ron Geren and Executive Director Mark Dorsey. Mark your calendars for December 14th at 12:00pm EST. We look forward to having you attend this free Webinar event.

CSINext is getting noticed folks!

The following member joined CSI in November. CSINext is please to congratulate the following CSI member on their continued membership!

• 10 Years - F. Drucilla Brookshire, CSI, CCCA

Greetings! We will be conducting our November Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Wood Finishes" Presented by Kent Kile, FCSI. Mark your calendars for November 9th at 12:00pm EST. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!

Construction Specifications Institute
CSINext Chapter
November 2016 Meeting

Meeting Date: November 9, 2016
Meeting Time: 12:00pm EST 
Meeting  RSVP: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/572492992946382850
Webinar ID: 569-310-091

Speaker: Kent Kile

The attendees will be exposed to the following information:

Among the things specifiers grumble most about are the typical architect's lack of knowledge about how things work and how they go together, and the belief that "If I can draw it someone can build it!"

Each of the following members joined CSI in October. CSINext is please to congratulate the following CSI members on their continued membership.

• 1 Year - Jeffrey Mosley, CSI
• 21 Years - Lynn Javoroski, FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS, LEED AP, SCIP
• 24 Years - Michael Young, CSI, CCCA
• 30 Years - Helaine Robinson, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP
• 31 Years - Robert Dye, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, LEED AP, RRC

Greetings! We will be conducting our October Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "The Accessible Restroom" Presented by Daniel Hargreaves, FCSI, AIA, CDT, RAS. Mark your calendars for October 12th at 12:00pm EDT. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!

Hello everyone,

Around this time last year I wrote a blog about my involvement as one of the SME content editors for the Project Management Institute's (PMI) upcoming release of the 4th Edition of the Construction Extension to the PMBOK.

Comments have been bantered about in the CSI community about the value and worth of supporting the CCPR- Certified Construction Product Representative exam as part of the certification offerings of the Certification Committee and CSI. These comments are many times attached to a conversation about the financial viability of the entire Certification program. Granted, the CCPR exam does not get as many exam registrations as do CCS, CCCA and CDT. Many hours of effort and validation have gone into revamping the CCPR exam. I can personally attest to the work done to properly align the exam to the study documents, having chaired the CCPR sub-committee for the past three years. I would like to thank Lee Ann Slattery CSI, CCPR, TJ Gottwalt CSI, CCPR and Tan Diep CSI, CCPR, for the countless hours they have invested in making the CCPR exam overhaul a success. We are seeing an upswing in registration for the CCPR exam. Do numbers of registrants alone give value to the CCPR certification? The answer is no. There are other reasons why the CCPR certification has value and should be considered as part of the overall long term CSI certification offerings. The balance of this article will be devoted to discussing the reasons for “Why CCPR”.

CSINext took advantage of having the members at Construct and did a group photo. And then in a rare instance we had the entire board at one location. We had members from Canada, Texas, Ohio, Arizona, Kansas, North Carolina and Colorado. Below is the chapter members photo:

Each of the following members joined CSI in September. CSINext is please to congratulate the follow CSI members on their continued membership.

• 17 Years - Nina Giglio, FCSI, CCS, SCIP
• 31 Years - Lane Beougher, FCSI, Lifetime Member, CCS, CCCA, AIA, CSC, DBIA, LEED AP
• 31 Years - Janet Piccola, FCSI

Each of the following members joined CSI in September. CSINext is please to congratulate the follow CSI members on their continued membership.

• 1 Year - Lenee Hicks, CSI-EP
• 18 Years - Nina Giglio, FCSI, CCS, SCIP
• 19 Years - J.W. Mollohan, FCSI, CCPR, LEED GA
• 32 Years - Lane Beougher, FCSI, Lifetime Member, CCS, CCCA, AIA, CSC, DBIA, LEED AP
• 32 Years - Janet Piccola, FCSI

I swore to myself that I wasn’t going to write one of those messages that starts out saying “Where has the year gone” but as I sit down to prepare my message I’m really in a state of confusion as to where did the year go? But with that I think of the great 2016 that CSINext, the Chapter continued in a very stable and self sustaining manner, the Board made decisions to advance the Chapter and we had really GREAT programs at each meeting. We say a huge thank you to both Ann Baker for her leadership of the Chapter as President and to Randy Watterson who served as Secretary. Luckily, Ann will be staying on the Board to keep me focused. Randy is moving on to other things but we will look forward to him participating in the Membership meetings as often as he can.