The reports of how construction is moving today during the Covid-19 pandemic are varied.
Many segments are full speed ahead, others are shut down from state and local government.
Hospital work and the manufacturers that support it have kicked it up a notch or two or three.
What our business will look like after this event is uncertain.
The Construction Specifications Institute is an association full of volunteer members who passionately serve each year. CSI has a committee that works each year to refresh and update the Honors and Awards Guide. It’s important for region and chapter leaders to be thinking about those who serve to help make CSI better.
Happy New Year!
Hopefully Santa brought you everything you wanted for Christmas.
Just remember, He’s not watching you- He’s judging you all year long...
So NOW I know why I get coal every year.
This month we announce a new experience for our chapter members…
We are having a LIVE meeting for anyone arranging CONSTRUCT.
YES, meet your fellow chapter members IN PERSON.
SPEAK to them, look them in the eye, shake their hand and say “HI!”
Welcome to FY20, CSI’s version of the new year.
The chapter officers have been busy setting the stage to have an excellent year for the chapter. We had a planning meeting Saturday July 13th. There were lots of good ideas to choose from, and we think you will be excited to see what comes CSINext!
It’s Mid-June.
In CSI world, that means Region and Chapter Leaders are handling the last Board meeting, the last Monthly meeting, the Awards banquet. They are putting a bow on their year of service and getting ready to hand the controls over to the next in line.
Michael Young has done a good job as President. We have had a successful year of Programs. We are ready to kick off an exciting announcement of a new program concerning student support.
Hello everyone, and Happy Summer!
As the CSI year winds down, I would like to take just a few seconds and thank each and every one of you for your continued involvement in CSI and the especially CSINext Chapter.
To all of the chapter members, Committee Chairs, and Board Members I would like to thank you for the tremendous experience it was to lead the chapter this year.
Hello everyone, hope this month’s Presidents Message reaches each of you in good spirits! Spring is right around the corner and for those of us here in the Midwest….it cannot get here fast enough! This winter was a rough one. But hey…it is March…and time for March Madness. Speaking of madness let me give you an update of the crazy goings on here at CSINext!
HAPPY NEW YEAR CSINext!!!
Welcome to 2018!
Hello everyone, Happy New Year and welcome to 2018! I hope each and everyone of you had a very happy Holiday season!
CONSTRUCT, CONGRATULATIONS, & COMMISSIONING!
Hello everyone, happy September! Whew….what a month for CSINext! There is lots of information to cover….so hold on tight!!!
Welcome to August everyone! Hope you are staying cool. As summer continues to heat up - things are really heating up here at CSINext! Check out what has been going on.
Hello everyone…where ever you may be I hope each and every one of you are having a great summer! I cannot tell you how excited I am to be leading the Chapter this year. And how much I am looking forward to working with the membership and an outstanding Board of Directors. This will be my third year working with the Chapter Board and I can truly say I have enjoyed every minute of it. Being President of the CSINext will be challenge but one I am looking forward to!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Once again, I’m a day late and a dollar short. While contemplating a September President’s message (which turned into an October message and now possibly a November message if I don’t hurry), I was listening in on the September session of CSI’s Specifiers’ Practice Group. I think a lot about the fact that CSI is a well-kept secret in our construction industry, and it has occurred to me on more than one occasion that the practice groups are a hidden jewel within CSI. So, I was jotting some notes down about what the practice groups do, how the first one of which I was aware was the Product Representation Practice Group, how we all practice differently and yet the same. Then, as happens with most of us, Real Life took over and the notes were shoved into a Word document in a “possible president’s messages” folder.
Welcome to the new fiscal year at CSINext! If you’re not familiar with us, we are CSI’s virtual chapter – a group of construction industry professionals who happen to live and work all over the world. We share an energy and enthusiasm for what we do in our paying jobs and for what CSI has to offer the construction world.
Greetings CSINexters!
The nation’s election day has come and gone. Voters from across the country made their feelings known in a variety of races at all levels of government. In the next few months, you will start seeing news from CSI about the FY16 elections. Just like with the national elections, the future of the Institute depends on what you do. I implore you to study the candidates’ statements and figure out for yourself which person will represent you best at the national and local level.
Greetings CSINexters!
It’s Back to School Time! There’s nothing like a fall football Saturday night in Tiger Stadium (AKA Death Valley) at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge! As you can see by the satellite view, Thomas W. Atkinson Hall (the School of Architecture) was just mere blocks from Tiger Stadium. We spent many a Saturday night hearing the roar of the crown well before the radio announcer told us what had happened. It wasn’t until I was out in the working world that I really experienced the true tailgating experienced that is a football game at LSU.
