Each of the following members joined CSI in September. CSINext is please to congratulate the follow CSI members on their continued membership.
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.
Each of the following members joined CSI in August. CSINext is please to congratulate the follow CSI members on their continued membership.
Construction Specifications Institute
CSINext Chapter
September 2016 Meeting
Meeting Date: September 14, 2016
Meeting Time: 12:00pm EDT 12:30pm EDT (Yes, it is delayed 30 minutes)
Meeting RSVP: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/63038677161374212
Webinar ID: 441-216-403
Speaker: Victor Brewer
"The use of drones in the construction has been steadily on the rise over the past several years and will only intensify as the current state of technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace.
Victor Brewer noticed an increasing need for the use of drones in the construction industry and entered the market with his company Aerial Image Solutions and set out to provide Owners, Architects, Engineers, and Contractors with advanced technology that can assist in design and delivery of all project types.
So far in this series, we first looked at the good old days, when CSI membership rose continually, sometimes at an amazing rate. During the growth period, we saw that membership in CSI offered tangible benefits. CSI was an organization that helped those involved in construction to understand how construction documents are related, how to prepare them, and how to interpret them. Much of that information was developed by CSI members, so there were countless opportunities for members to take an active part in the future of specifications. Face meetings were important because the only other options for communication were written letters, which made real-time discussion impossible, and telephone calls, which were quite expensive.
Each of the following members joined CSI in July. CSINext is please to congratulate the follow CSI members on their continued membership.
Each summer, boards of directors make plans for the next year, education and certification committees begin preparing study courses, newsletter editors start bugging chapter presidents for articles, and planning committees search for good technical programs and tours. All of these are serious, necessary things that must be done to provide the services members expect.
Greetings! We will be conducting our May Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Adopting Lean Principles, Methodologies, and Practices in the Construction Industry: Observations on Challenges, Considerations, and Possible Approaches" Presented by Alex Johnson with Newforma. Mark your calendars for June 8th at 12:00pm EDT. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!
In less than 2 months, CSINext (and CSI) will be having a changing of the guards. When I was on the Institutes Nominating committee we had a large pool to draw from. At the there must have been 300+ names. However, it is always a challenge for the chapter to fill the slate. But once again we have found our board for FY17. If you have some extra time and want to enrich your CSI experience, I do encourage you to reach out to the CSINext board and see what can be done. But we do want to thank those who have stepped up to the plate...
You can’t turn on a television these days without seeing political ads or a news report about the latest primary (and don’t get me started on how Colorado doesn’t have primaries and therefore I personally had no say at all in selection of presidential candidates). As I write this, the presumption is that it will be a Trump-Clinton race in November. If you look around you’ll also see that people are googling how to move to Canada if one or the other candidate wins. I also subscribe to a site promoting Irish tourism, which has been telling me that there are more than a few towns there actually advertising that they’ll welcome Americans who want to leave the country after the election. Really? They’d give up on a whole country, a whole way of life, because of who is occupying the White House? I’m not sure I’m quite ready to throw that baby out with that bath water.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…” this is the opening sentence from “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens. But you may be asking yourself, what does this have to do with CSI, construction or the internet? Everything and nothing, as I reflect on when I became in Institute Director 10 years ago (yep, July 1, 2006) it was a trial by fire and the boards first attempt to do a comprehensive revision to governance and its bylaws.
Please - say "Thank you!"
Among the first things parents drum into their children's heads are the words please and thank you. Parents do such a good job that these words become automatic, and, to a great extent, they become white noise. If they are used automatically, without conscious thought, what good are they? Do they mean anything? Why do we insist children use them, even if they don't mean what they say?
Here in Colorado, we’ve had a mild and rather dry winter. It’s been a bit too warm for my liking, with above-average temps for much of February and March, probably January too. While we had an above-average snowpack in January, it’s dwindled and could use some help about now. Not only do front-range communities look toward that to predict water supplies for the rest of the year, but we also need rain and snow to reduce our wild fire susceptibility. Plus the dog loves it. So, as I write this, during the last week of winter, we’ve started off dry and with nearly 70° F. Tomorrow the high temps are supposed to be below normal (I think we should call that “typical” instead of “normal”, don’t you?) somewhere closer to 30° F and we’re supposed to have snow. Of course, there’s always the chance that they miss the forecast, and tomorrow is sunny and dry all over again.
Greetings! We will be conducting our May Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "He Said, She Said (Managing Contract Issues)" Presented by Wayne Seiler, PSP with Construction Process Solutions Ltd. Mark your calendars for May11th at 12:00pm EDT. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!
In the last post, we looked at the complementary clause, and saw how powerful it can be; we also looked at the limits of that power. Many architects know of that clause, and I have occasionally heard it cited, something like this: "I don't care if there is no specification for it; it's on the drawings, and you have to provide it!" In the same conversation, it wouldn't be unusual to hear, "No, I don't know how you're going to do it - that's means and methods!"
I’m very surprised that it’s already 2016. Last year evaporated before my eyes! Not only that, but January has come and gone and it’s mid-February now and it’s onward and upward for most of us.
Greetings! We will be conducting our April Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Flex the Specs" Presented by Vivian Volz, AIA, CSI, SCIP, CCS, LEED AP BD+C who is the Principal Specifier and President of VVAS. Mark your calendars for April 13th at 12:00pm EDT. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!
Greetings! We will be conducting our March Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Why the Fuss over Volume Solids" Presented by Johnathan Meany, CSI - Behr Paint Architectural Representative. Mark your calendars for March 9th at 12:00pm EST. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!
CSINext continues to look for ways to expand and meet the ever changing needs of Social media. While we have all of the stuff of a traditional chapter (meetings, newletters, board, etc). We don't want to loose focus of our mission. Bridging the gap between members, the industry and social media. With that we are please to announce the CSINext Discussion Groups.
Greetings! We will be conducting our February Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Digital Art - This is not BIM" Presented by Daniel Hargreaves, FCSI, CDT, AIA, RAS, he is the Operations Manager for SRa Architects located in Tucson, Arizona. Mark your calendars for Febraury 10th at 11:00am EST. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today as space is limited!
