Lots of news to report. First, it's looking like the CSI board is going to approve our petition for charter, so we can finally get down to the business of community building with some legitimacy. Second, we've added an amazing team member to the s ...

Each of the following members joined CSI in January. CSINext is please to congratulate the following CSI members on their continued membership. 1 Year - Nicholas Bolton, CSI, CDT 6 Years - Ganapathy Nagasubramaniam, CSI, CCS, LEED AP, M. Arch 13 ...

Our October webinar, set for Wednesday, October 28th, at 2pm EST, has been postponed to November 18th because of technical issues. We apologize for the delay, but learning the particulars of a virtual environment are new and a lot more complex that y ...

Yesterday I spent the day attending GlassBuild 2009 at the Georgia World Congress Center. GlassBuild is the largest trade assembly solely devoted to the glazing construction industry in the world.  Lots of amazing products, vendors and speakers.The s ...

Given the amount of discussion that I've heard lately, you'd think that the "virtual world" was as foreign to the A/E community as is the term "successful BIM integration". OK, so I"m guiding the lily a bit, but I've run into a lot of opposition to b ...

The Construction Specifications Institute is proud to announce the release of the new MasterFormat 04 conversion app for iPhone. This application allows the user to input the old MasterFormat 95 Standard number and instantly see the MasterFormat 04 S ...

Greetings! We will be conducting our November Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Solving Paint Problems" Presented by Kent Kile CSI, CCPR, he is the Architectural Manager for PPG Industries for TN/AR and So. MO, representing paint, glass a ...

CSI Leadership: Your Fiduciary Duty to Connect the Mission to Membership When: 2pm ET, Wed., Sept. 30 Where: Web-based on CSINext.org Presenter: Bryan J. Varner, CSI, CCCA, LEED AP Cost: FREE — All CSI Chapter Leaders are invited! REGISTER NOW! Sig ...

Over the last few months, as the development team has been diligently working on building CSINext, I’ve spent a large amount of time looking at how other member based organizations are handling the shift from traditional, face to face networking to a ...

 At some point we had a very minor hack last year. I rebuilt the pages utilizing a backup database. We have been able to save our 15 years worth of articles and history. However, the registration, image upload, etc... processes has suffered ...

In this month’s Architect, Edward Keegan does an excellent job of delineating the turmoil which the job description of “spec writer” currently seems to be under. There is no denying that the traditional picture of a dutiful technical writer, toiling ...

Sign up now to be in attendance for the first official meeting for CSIN! This Wednesday at 3pm, EDT, join us for "Fiduciary Duties: Connecting the Mission to Membership. Bryan Varner, of the Redwood Empire Chapter will be discussing the legal requir ...

…and if all those “C”s didn’t have you hacking up hairballs, Congratulations! You’ve successfully discovered the web news feed for the Community Building site, CSINext. CSINext has been referred to as a “virtual chapter” by some, and that is a sig ...

UPDATE!We're Back! The website is going through some growing pains. We have changed out the back-end software. The main reason was to increase security. But we need to have fun to, there are some very exciting new features... The process of the up ...

CSI Leadership: Your Fiduciary Duty to Connect the Mission to Membership When: 2pm ET, Wed., Sept. 30 Where: Web-based on CSINext.org Presenter: Bryan J. Varner, CSI, CCCA, LEED AP Cost: FREE — All CSI Chapter Leaders are invited! REGISTER NOW! Sig ...

Welcome to the all new, yet old CSINext. At the end of 2015 CSINext got a very special belated Christmas Present. The virtual host got hacked... So the question goes "What's a hack"? The are several different types of hacks out there and you proba ...

CSINext continues to grow! CSINext is please to welcome the following CSI members on joining CSI & CSINext. Todd Hansen, CSI, CDT - December 2017 Terrence Lunn, PE, FCSI, CCS - January 2018 ...

Greetings fellow members of CSINext. We will be conducting our Chapter Meeting and the topic will be "How to properly develop performance specifications for Fluid Applied Air Barrier Systems based on performance testing, standards & codes" Presen ...