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Celebrating CSI’s 75th anniversary

Construction Specifier

By Stacy Rinella This year, the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) reached an important milestone—it has been bridging the divide between various sectors of the building industry for seven decades now. At the time, there was no standardization when it came to preparing the drawings or specifications. Uniform building codes.

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Integrated Project Delivery Software and Support Services

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Instant access to drawings using Building in Cloud built-in DWG viewer. Common Data Environment. Upload and share documents and make them available to your whole team – including PDF, Word and Excel files, images and videos.

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Commercial Construction CSI – How to Uncover the Demons in Your Construction Site

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It was a case for the Englewood Construction CSI team. Englewood Construction's team is always ready to solve the latest construction CSI case. Typically, the architect is hired first and completes a very general site survey before submitting drawings. Then, the transformer blew out. What the heck happened?

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The future of specifiers: The way forward

Construction Specifier

by Vivian Volz, AIA, CSI, SCIP, CCS, LEED AP. Melody Stinson, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, LEED AP, senior specification writer, Deltek; Alexander Lungershausen, AIA, CSI, CDT, CCS, CCCA, SCIP, LEED BD+C, associate principal, Hennebery Eddy Architects, Inc.; Photo © BigStockPhoto.com. Michael Chambers.

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LEAN Construction and Communication

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Use Industry-standard Documents and Data Architectures: Read, create, modify, and interpret drawings, forms, and other industry-standard documents. Use standard classification systems such as CSI MasterFormat(TM), Uniformat, etc. Leverage locally researched detailed line item unit price books (UPBs).

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Preliminary selection of exterior waterproofing systems 2021

Construction Specifier

To address this concern in 2002, the technical committee of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Construction Specifications Institute (LA-CSI) developed a guide to ‘Preliminary Selection of Waterproofing Systems.’. Cormier, CSI, CCS, who was committee chair at that time. waterproofing was defined in MasterFormat (1995 ed.)

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How to use ETABS 2015 for designing a Reinforced Concrete Building efficiently

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This most updated version of construction software contains superior 3D object based modeling and visualization tools, ardently rapid linear and nonlinear analytical functionalities, advanced and expansive design capabilities for unlimited materials, and insightful graphic displays, reports, and schematic drawings which facilitate the users to instantly (..)

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