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| May Chapter Meeting - 5/14/08 |
The May Chapter Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 5:30 p.m. at the Airport Hilton, 2435 S. 47th Street, Phoenix, AZ. For dinner reservations, call 602-258-7499 by Monday, May 12th at noon. Dinner is served at 6:30 p.m. and the Program begins at 7:30 p.m. Guest speaker is Katherine Halpen, MCC. See her article on Page 2 of the May Newsletter.
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| Monthly Technical Meeting - 5/13/08 |
If you would like to join the CSI Technical Committee, their next meeting is Tuesday, May 13, 2008 from Noon until 1:00pm at FM Solutions; 4001 N. 3rd St., Ste. 250; Phoenix, AZ 85012; 602.265-7900. The topic of discussion is Urban Heat Island Effect—Roofs.
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| New on CSI Phoenix Shopping |
New! Photovoltaic Systems for Commercial and Institutional Buildings. read more ...
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DMJM Design’s “The Art of Place Making” Takes Top Honors in Annual CSI Phoenix Chapter and Arizona AIA Imagination Cube Competition
Phoenix, Arizona, September, 2007 – The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), Phoenix Chapter, and American Institute of Architects (AIA), Arizona Chapter, presented their 2007 Imagination Cube Design Award to a team from DMJM Design for its creative use of Pilkington Profilit™ channel glass. The winning entry, entitled “The Art of Place Making,” used channel glass in a design concept for a public sculpture that mimics the free-flowing form of a viscous liquid.
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By Ronald L. Geren, CSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA, SCIP
Where Have All The Specifiers Gone?
In 1961, folk singer and political activist Pete Seeger along with folk singer Joe Hickerson, adapted the words of a Ukrainian folk song to the tune of an old lumberjack song to create “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” The cyclic lyrics lead to the death of soldiers in combat, and individual recordings of the song by the Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul, and Mary made it a popular anti-war song later in the same decade. But this article isn’t about the politics of war, or even music for that matter. This article is about the apparent, and somewhat disturbing, decline in the number of experienced construction specifiers.
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