The making of a convention
A lot goes into a convention: location, scheduling, publicity, solicitation of exhibitors, invitations to potential…
CSINext May 2026 Meeting
Greetings! We will be conducting our May Chapter Meeting and the presentation will be "Glazing Systems Delegated Design: A Hole in the Envelope" Presented by Stewart Jeske, M.S., P.E.. Mark your calendars for May 13th at 12:00pm EDT. We look forward to having you attend this free webinar, register today…
President’s Notes September 2017
CONSTRUCT, CONGRATULATIONS, & COMMISSIONING! Hello everyone, happy September! Whew….what a month for CSINext! There is…
Where do bad specifications come from?
It’s approaching ten years since I wrote “The Making of a Curmudgeon.*” In it, I…
President’s Notes August 2017
Welcome to August everyone! Hope you are staying cool. As summer continues to heat up…
WELCOME TO CSINext 2017 / 2018!
Hello everyone…where ever you may be I hope each and every one of you are…
Tower of Babel
Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand…
Building envelope – or building enclosure?
In October, I published “Tegularity,” a discussion of the proper term for acoustic ceiling panels.…
Get your hands dirty!
Among the things specifiers grumble most about are the typical architect’s lack of knowledge about…
President’s Message August 2016
I swore to myself that I wasn’t going to write one of those messages that…
How did we get here? The transition to maintenance activities
So far in this series, we first looked at the good old days, when CSI…