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| June Chapter Meeting - 6/11/08 |
The CSI Phoenix Chapter Annual Awards Banquet will be held on June 11th at the Tempe Center for the Arts (TCA). The event
will kick off at 5:30 PM with a social gathering at the TCA lounge located of the main lobby. At 6:30, dinner will be served in the Lakeside Room overlooking the Tempe Town Lake. Following dinner at 7:30, we’ll recognize those individuals that have contributed to the Chapter’s success this past year.
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| Monthly Technical Meeting - 6/10/08 |
If you would like to join the CSI Technical Committee, the next meeting is Tuesday, June 10, 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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Ronald L. Geren, CSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA, SCIP
RLGA Technical Services
Phoenix Chapter President
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It’s hard to believe it; we’ve almost wrapped up another successful year for the Phoenix Chapter. Although I didn’t accomplish all that I wanted to while president, the Chapter did have several successful accomplishments this past year:
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Self-Improvement
There are thousands of books, websites, and other sources available for the sole purpose of making you a better person. They focus on topics ranging from weight control to increasing self-confidence to overcoming shyness. But, the type of self-improvement I’m highlighting is professional-based; I’m speaking of improving your position in your current career.
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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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