January/February 2014 Newsletter - Construction Specifications
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January/February 2014 Newsletter - Construction Specifications
NASHVILLE SPECIFACTS •JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014• www.csinashville.org WANT TO ADVERTISE YOUR COMPANY BY HAVING YOUR BUSINESS CARD IN THE SPECIFACTS? CONTACT VICKIE LONG FOR INFORMATION. CONSTRUCT offers a relevant, accredited education program, an expansive exhibit hall floor filled with the latest services, products and technologies, as well as a myriad of networking opportunities. In conjunction with the CSI Annual Convention, the event is coupled with technical tours, activities and special events. CONSTRUCT is the only dedicated national event specifically designed to provide the commercial building team real-world, practical products and education solutions. Find hundreds of exhibitors with the newest trends and practices on the show floor and, with non-conflicting hours, attend your choice of over 50 accredited courses. The education program sessions, taught by experts, offer AIA LUs and HSWs and GBCI CE. Unparalleled networking opportunities include the Welcome Reception, the CSI Night Out event and other social events. We look forward to seeing you in Charm City. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 1 Benefits and Opportunities 2013-2014 As a CSI Nashville Chapter member, you get many benefits. As in all organizations, you must engage to reap the rewards. Here are some of our benefits and how you can get involved. Networking This is probably the single best benefit of your CSI membership. Monthly meetings and various events throughout the year provide many, many opportunities to network. Also by volunteering and working on committees, you can really get to know your fellow professionals. Many of our members have become best friends for life. People tend to do business with folks they know, trust, and like. So get involved! Contact our President, Jim Christain to learn more about committees needing help @ [email protected]. Certification The CSI Program of Certifications is designed to educate, inform and validate those in all areas of design and construction. The Nashville CSI Chapter aggressively promotes the CDT program which is the basis for the three certifications: CCS, CCCA and CCPR. Starting in January each year the Nashville Chapter provides 10 weeks of two hour classes focused on the Construction Documents Technologist criteria. The Construction Documents Technology Certificate is a comprehensive overview for anyone who writes, interprets, enforces, or manages construction documents. Classes are open to anyone interested. You do not need to be a member and there is no cost to attend. To find out more about CSI and the CDT and other Certification program check www. csinet.org and click on the Certification menu item. In addition to the CDT classes, the chapter provides assistance for candidates who intend to take the CCS, CCCA or CCPR exams. This assistance can be tailored to meet specific needs. The CDT classes will cover MasterFormat, UniFormat, AIA A201 – 2007 General Conditions and other documents commonly used in construction. For more information contact: Carl Manka @ Carl.Manka@ tbr.edu Monthly Meetings Ten monthly meetings per year – held the third Tuesday of each month at the Adventure Science Center at 11:30. Lunch is provided in local membership dues. You must RSVP prior to meetings. We strive to provide AIA credits for many of our meetings. Networking with fellow professionals and learning about new local projects are also benefits of attending. We do not schedule a meeting in July and December. The October meeting is our Product Show. Contact Devin Righter @ [email protected] to get on our meeting announcement and RSVP list. Spec Heads This group meets the second Tuesday of every month and is designed primarily for spec writers. A vendor provides the program each month and complimentary box lunches for attendees. AIA credit for attending. You must RSVP. Contact Jerry Curtis at [email protected] to get on the announcement list or to provide an AIA program. Product Show Held in October at LP Field, home of the Titans. We normally have many, many vendor booths as well as seminars through-out the day that offer AIA continuing education credits. Free lunch and reception to all attendees. This is our single largest event of the year. Contact Melanie Kenney at [email protected] to find out more about our upcoming show Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 2 Benefits and Opportunities 2013-2014 cont... Golf Tournament Contact Steve Honey @ [email protected] for information. This event will be held at the Old Hickory Golf Course on Monday, May 12th 2014. We will be partnering with IFMA and IIDA. Holiday Party Sometimes we hold our own event and sometimes we partner with other groups. Thirsty Thursday Events Thirsty Thursday events are held the first Thursday of each month at various local restaurants where CSI partners with IIDA and IFMA to provide free appetizers and opportunities to meet fellow construction professionals. Awards Our chapter gives out awards to individuals who work hard for our chapter. We also submit for regional and national awards for our chapter and for individuals. We have a very special awards banquet every year to celebrate those achievements, open to all chapter members. Contact Troy Williams @ [email protected] to find out more. On-Line Education on Facebook. Webinars are offered to CSI members regularly. Join a chat group on Linkedin. See us also Emerging Professional Sponsorship Program There is a program available for folks entering their careers as construction professionals (within three years of employment in the Nashville area) to receive a one year benefit of $50 total dues. CSI Nashville will pay the balance of the cost for selected recipients. Deadline to submit applications is April 20th, 2014. Contact Jarrod Finger @ [email protected] for more information or an application. Regional Meetings The CSI Gulf States Region holds two meetings per year where you can get involved with folks throughout the southeast. The Leadership Meeting that is held each fall is great for new members wanting to learn about particular committees. Institute Convention Once a year in the fall, there is a CSI Convention held in a major city. Nashville was the designated city in 2013 and will be again because of the positive response and attendance from that event. Many, many CSI Nashville Chapter volunteers made this event so successful. CSI Academies Once a year, during the first quarter of the year, there is an educational gathering of CSI members and educators to discuss technical issues for Specifiers, Contract Administrators, and Product Representatives. The educational sessions are provided over a 2 ½ day period, providing education by presenters of various backgrounds who use real world experience. The 2014 event will be held at the end of this month March 27-29 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Contact CSI directly for more information: [email protected]. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 3 JANUARY ANNIVERSARIES!!! RANDY HOFFMAN DALTILE 33 YEARS JEFF E. MEYERS 20 YEARS RICK JONES T.W. FRIERSON CONTRACTOR, INC. 30 YEARS GERALD SULLIVAN GERALD M. SULLIVAN, INC. 20 YEARS TIMOTHY YOKO THOMAS, MILLER & PARTNERS 12 YEARS DAVID E. SCOTT McCARTHY JONES & WOODARD 26 YEARS F. ODELL PULLEN F. ODELL PULLEN, ARCHITECT/SCULPTOR 18 YEARS SONNY McKELLAR CARLISLE SYNTEC SYSTEMS 2 YEARS DARREN PATTON ISENHOUR DOOR INSTALLATION SOLUTIONS, LLC 4 YEARS AJA BALDWIN 1 YEAR CINDY SEARCY McGRAW-HILL CONSTRUCTION 1 YEAR NEW MEMBERS!!! JEFFREY CASELLA GILBERT McLAUGHLIN CASELLA ARCHITECTS PLC FEBRUARY ANNIVERSARIES!!! MATT BETTINSON PELLA WINDOWS AND DOORS WARREN KIRKLAND KINGSPAN INSULATED PANELS NORTH AMERICA TOM WILLIAMS WILLIAMS COATING CONSULTANTS 27 YEARS ERIC J. LUNDQUIST ATAS INTERNATIONAL, INC. 8 YEARS ANTHONY COLLINS INPRO CORPORATION 2 YEARS RYAN BELL ROYAL ADHESIVES 2 YEARS SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 4 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Welcome Spring and a big Thank You to the Gate Precast Company. Our first field trip of 2014 was amazing. Those guys are problem solvers and artists in concrete with a little reinforcing. If you ever consider precast you should take this tour. Upcoming field trips planned so far: a sheet metal shop, a new University building and a tilt up project. We would also like to tour Ford Glass, or whatever the name is now, if you know someone. I’ve been to California since the last newsletter. Those people are so funny. They are so PC/green and difficult about everything but yet they won’t work on their problems. They have no reliable water sources yet they won’t rebuild their leaky old distribution system. They are so concerned with energy yet most of their buildings are uninsulated. I freeze when I’m out there. I am reminded of the old saying “you can’t see the forest for the trees.” They do have urban living figured out. Even the worst parts of San Francisco have been renovated. Every building is occupied. The streets are full. Crowded roads, expensive gas and expensive parking encourage urban living and using public transportation. Our membership drive is showing results. All you have to do is get one new member and then we double. AIA Middle TN, for instance, has as many EP members as we have members. Jarrod Finger is doing a magnificent job revamping our old sponsorship program and focusing on emerging professionals. Please contact him if you have a candidate. The following is excerpted from Coleman Brown, GSR membership chairman. “These chapters are up for the year to date Nashville + 30, Baton Rouge. +7, Mobile + 6. We have 1,034 members in our Region. Here is a crazy success story that happened to me today that I will never forget. Today’s CSI March meeting announcement is from CSI Baton Rouge President Eric Kimbrough. It heralds our March 11 meeting promotion of Interior Design Month to fellow LSU design students by Tracy Manual. Sadly this email can’t send you the incredible design Tracy has for the engraved invitation too. I’m in tears, because these two are in love with CSI and what you have given them. All I did was buy them a $25 student membership. Tracy last fall and Eric several years ago. Tomorrow morning, I’m meeting a contractor who simply can’t wait to join CSI. He will get to give away a free one year membership in the Institutes Buy One get one program underway. See more information about this great opportunity in this issue of Specifacts. Invest in CSI. What greater reward is there than mentoring students and fellow professionals with all the great tips and certifications we share daily.” See you at the April meeting and please bring a potential member. Your President, Jim Christain SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 5 Emerging Professionals Sponsorship Program The Construction Specification Institute continually strives to incorporate a variety of opportunities for members. Benefits and opportunities for members include many educational opportunities: access to webinars, self-paced online education, live education during chapter meetings and free CDT (Construction Documents Technologists) , CCPR (Certified Construction Product Representative), etc classes taught by local seasoned professionals, and an opportunity to qualify for those certifications. Many networking and fellowship opportunities are provided to get you acquainted with fellow professionals in the construction field. This year, we are striving to provide easy access to the CSI Nashville Chapter for those emerging professionals who have recently been employed within the last three years in a construction related field and are operating in the Nashville, Tennessee area. This sponsorship offers assistance with Institute and local chapter dues providing access to the many CSI benefits and resources and relieving most of the financial obligation of the member fees for the first year - the recipient will only be responsible for $50 dues. All other fees and expenses will be absorbed by the CSI Nashville Chapter. This is a benefit of $195 to the recipient to experience our organization and all that we offer for one year and to get immediately involved in the Nashville Construction community. This opportunity is only available to those who wish to pursue a career in the field of architecture, engineering, construction, product representation, or any other “approved” construction-related field. Eligibility Requirements: - Be a recent graduate or a person within their first three years of employment within a construction or design related field in the Nashville area. Non-paying internship positions will also be considered. - Possess a serious career driven attitude, good character, leadership qualities, and well-rounded personal development and be willing to commit to attendance at a majority of our monthly meetings held on the third Tuesday of each month at the Adventure Science Center at 11:30 AM. -It is recommended that applicants have a CSI member advisor. Deadline for applications for the 2013/2014 fiscal year is April 20, 2014. Those interested in applying for this sponsorship should contact: Jarrod Finger [email protected] 615.953.9474, ext. 704 SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 6 Emerging Professionals Scholarship Application Emerging Professionals Scholarship Application Emerging Professionals Sponsorship Application Purpose: Purpose: To To encourage encourage and and assist assist qualified qualified emerging emerging professionals professionals and and students students who who wish wish to to pursue pursue aa career career in in field field of of engineering, engineering, architecture, architecture, or or other other construction-related construction-related field field so so they, they, in in turn, turn, might might further further the the goals goals and and exemplify exemplify the the ideals ideals of of the the Construction Construction Specification Specification Institute. Institute. See See Attached Attached for for Eligibility Eligibility Requirements Requirements (Please (Please print print all all information) information) 1. 1. Last Last Name Name First First Name Name Middle Middle Initial Initial Suffix Suffix 2. 2. Current Current Mailing Mailing Address______________________________________________________________________ Address______________________________________________________________________ 3. 3. Permanent Permanent Mailing Mailing Address Address (if (if different different from from current current address) address) 4. 4. Current Current Telephone Telephone No.. No.. Permanent Permanent Telephone Telephone No. No. 5. 5. Are Are you you an an active active student student member member of of the the Nashville Nashville Chapter Chapter CSI? CSI? Yes Yes No No .N/A____ .N/A____ 66 Sponsoring Sponsoring member member or or Educator Educator (recommended, (recommended, not not required): required): _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ 7. 7. IfIf you you have have graduated graduated from from or or are are currently currently attending attending aa post post secondary secondary institution, institution, please please fill fill in in the the following: following: College/University/School College/University/School Major Major College/University/School College/University/School Major Major 88 Please Please indicated indicated your your area area of of concentration: concentration: Architecture____Engineering____Contraction____Owner____Product Architecture____Engineering____Contraction____Owner____Product ____Representative____ ____Representative____ Finance____Legal____Other, Finance____Legal____Other, please please explain______________________________________ explain______________________________________ SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 7 9. List areas of interest of being involved in CSI or areas of interest (i.e. continuing education, networking, team building, etc.): 10. Your Signature____________________________________________ Date_____________________ Applications must be postmarked no later than April 20, 2014 and mailed to: CSI Sponsorship/ CSI Scholarship/ c/oc/o WiSEngineers, WiSEngineers, Inc. Inc. attn: Jarrod attn.: JarrodFinger Finger 4011 Armory Drive 4011 ArmoryOaks Oaks Drive Nashville, Nashville,TN TN 37204 37204 WHAT YOU MISSED... JANUARY CHAPTER MEETING: GIARRATANA DEVELOPMENT 1/21/2014 http://giarratana.com/ Current projects and their approach to contractor selection and construction pricing. From Left to Right Phil Meadows, CFO; Loretta Baltz; Ted Kromer, Development Director; and Rick Jones SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 8 SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 9 WHAT YOU MISSED... FEBRUARY CHAPTER MEETING: THE AMP 2/18/2014 Have you heard about the Amp? The Amp is a proposed bus rapid transit system that will make travel faster and more efficient along a 7.1 mile route, from Five Points in East Nashville, down Main Street into downtown, across Fifth Avenue to Broadway, then out West End Avenue, ending at Saint Thomas Health’s West Campus. Jay Everett, ASLA, AICP, CLARB, LEED® AP Jay Everett is a registered landscape architect and certified planner who joined Lose & Associates in June 2006, having graduated from Mississippi State University with a BLA and a Minor in Fine Arts. He holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master Science in Sustainability from Lipscomb University. As a professional, Jay has developed a versatile range of planning and design abilities. He has worked on a wide variety of projects from planning documents and master plans to construction documents and details. He Co-Chaired the Middle Tennessee Section of TN ASLA in 2010 and 2011 and is a member of the Board of Directors for Transit Now Nashville, a non-profit transit advocacy group. He is an active participant in the Nashville design and development community through ULI, NAIOP, and the Nashville Civic Design Center. Jay is an advocate for the application of smart growth principles and is passionate about incorporating sustainable practices into all areas of real estate development. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 10 SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 11 SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 12 SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 13 Up Next...Join us for our monthly CHAPTER meetings on the THIRD Tuesday from 11:30-1:00 at the Adventure Science Center APRIL CHAPTER MEETING Ken Hinton, FAIA Tuck Hinton Architects http://tuck-hinton.com/ 4/15/2014 THE TEMPLE MOUNT IN JERUSALEM: AN ARCHITECTURAL JOURNEY Incredible architecture, fascinating history, religious intrigue, unsolved mysteries Sanctus Locus The Most Sacred Place on Earth For centuries, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem has been one of the most, if not the most, sacred places on an ever-shrinking planet. It has contained several religious structures, architectural wonders documented in holy books and by noted historians. Currently, the site is the location of the spectacular Dome of the Rock shrine, and a portion of the acropolis-like mount’s supporting wall known as the Western Wall. It is an embattled place, one that has been repetitively sanctified, conquered, enlarged, pillaged, destroyed, and reconstructed. Adaptive reuse is an understatement. The purpose of this seminar is to explain the ancient history of the site, share the known information about the numerous religious buildings that have been erected at this location, and explore the fascinating evolution of the property. Many myths surround this unique place, some based in fact, others in fiction, and these will be examined. The seminar concludes with an overview of the location’s current political status, existing structures, and recent archaeological investigations on its past architectural masterpieces. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 14 Up Next...Join us for our monthly SPECHEADS meetings on the SECOND Tuesday from 11:30-1:00 at Southland Brick and Block Design Center Spec Head April 8th Process Innovation – Rough Screed Presenter will be: Tim Kehayias, Ardex Engineered Cements In new construction applications, ARDEX Concrete Management Systems (ACMS) save time and labor costs by eliminating the traditional steel trowel step in the finishing process. Using this system, the contractor will only place, consolidate, strike off and bull-float/restraighten the surface and allow the bleed-water to dissipate. Following a wet-cover cure (3 to 7 day min.) and surface brush blast, a layer of ARDEX self-leveling underlayment is installed either immediately after deflection or during interior build out. In some cases, the system can be installed first using an ARDEX Moisture Control System to allow almost immediate installation of finished flooring while mitigating any future risks resulting from moisture emissions from the slab. The resulting finish delivers a concrete substrate capable of meeting the most demanding flatness and levelness tolerances for both the flooring and other interior trades while eliminating unplanned leveling and delays. Spec Heads May 13th Ardex We will be giving a brief overview of our new ACMS / Ardiflo, Ardex Concrete Management System after the presentation. Spec Heads August 12th Ameristar Fence Products-Wayne Norman Spec Heads June 10th The Renaissance of Steel Windows Spec Heads July 15th Dal-Tile Flatwork Natural Stone National This class is designed for Architects, Designers and Landscape Architects to gain a full understanding of natural stone as a building material. Learn more about the various stones: granite, Limestone, Marble, Travertine, Slate, Onyx Serpentine, Sandstone and Quartzite. Obtain information about quarrying techniques, fabrication and finishing methods. With this understanding you will enhance your ability to select the right stone, fabrication technique and finish for your project. CSI NASHVILLE CHAPTER CALENDAR OF EVENTS Visit our webpage at http://www.csinashville.org/events.php This calendar is a live Google calendar so anyone using an Android smartphone or iOS (Apple) can link to it quickly and get chapter events on their calendars and agendas. Please contact Devin Righter with any questions. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 15 OTHER UPCOMING EVENTS... Gulf States Region Conference | May 16-17, 2014 | New Orleans, LA Early registration for the conference ended on 1-20-14. Let’s send a large group to represent the Nashville Chapter! For more information visit: http://gulfstates.csinet.org/ And remember our monthly Hump Day Happy Hour now known as... THIRSTY THURSDAY we can promise lots of fun networking with great people from three organizations Be watching for more information on a tour of the new MTSU Science Building. Scheduled to be Substantially Complete in May 2014, this $100 million project is the largest in TBR history, and it is the first science building built on MTSU’s campus since 1967. Thomas, Miller & Partners, LLC Hastings Architecture Associates, LLC HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!! SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 16 SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 17 CSI BOGO BUY-ONE/GIVE-ONE MEMBER REFERRAL CAMPAIGN You already know involvement in CSI is a good investment. Now you can share CSI with others who haven’t yet experienced the benefits of membership. When you recruit one professional member who joins, CSI will provide you with one membership to GIVE to a potential new member.* You’ll be able to sponsor another colleague in CSI, and make your network and chapter that much stronger. How it works: Recruit an individual to join as a professional member. Make sure they enter your name and member number under “Member Referral Information.” (They need to have the right information about you!) CSI will send you a membership to give to a potential new member. We will mail you a special membership certificate to give to someone who is not a CSI member, good for one full year of CSI membership. The person to whom you give your gift will need to join by the deadline cited on the certificate. All new memberships are for one year. Renewal fees will be at full price. This offer cannot be applied to renewals – including renewing your own membership. Former members who left CSI more than two years ago are eligible to receive this gift. Chapter dues are not covered by this offer. With your help, we can recruit others in the industry to join our ever-growing community. For your help, CSI will also award you 25 CSI Bucks for purchasing CSI products or services. Don’t know your member number? To get credit for your recruiting efforts, the new member must put your member number on their membership form. Forgot your number? Look it up: Log onto CSInet.org Click “Update Profile” Find your number under “Supplementary Information” Contact CSI Member Services [email protected] at 800-689-2900 if you have difficulty retrieving your Member Number. Let your recruits know how valuable this gift is, why you gave it to them, and what they can get out of it. Encourage them to join a chapter, invite them to meetings, introduce them to other members, and help them start taking advantage of CSI. *This offer cannot be combined with other offers and is only valid for new membership. Former members who left CSI more than two years ago are eligible to receive this gift. Chapter dues are not included in this offer. This offer is currently for professional membership only. For more information check out the link below: http://csinet.org/Main-Menu-Category/Membership/Individual-Membership/Quick-Tasks-Individual-Membership/CSI-BOGO-Program.html SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 18 How did we get here? Membership In the LinkedIn CSI Leaders group, Joy Davis recently began a series of discussions under the heading #CSIStats. The goal, as expressed in the first post of the series, is "helping CSI leaders understand where CSI stands by sharing facts about the Institute … to help you start and participate in discussions about who CSI is and where the Institute should go in the future." Each discussion has started with a few membership statistics about who members are and what they do, followed by links for recommended reading, and a question to start a discussion. As often happens, each discussion has had a brief flurry of responses, then died. Part of the problem, which affects everything we do, is the limited number of participants. Because this is a locked LinkedIn group, discussion necessarily is limited to members of the group, who number 503. Still, these are by definition leaders of CSI, so it's not a bad place to have a discussion, though it would be good to seek input from the general membership. That is being done through the Institute website, where the posts are available to all. To date, they have garnered a total of three comments. (Contrary to popular belief, posting something to a website does little to get the word out, as few people visit websites except when looking for specific information.) In Week 4 I posted a few statistics about the discussion. • • • • • • • • • Members: 11,000 plus or minus Emerging professionals: 500 plus or minus Board members: 18 (Only one is not a member of the CSI Leaders group) Institute committees, task teams: 43 (I didn't count the members, but I suspect there are hundreds) Participants in CSIStats discussion: 24 Board members in discussions: 3 FCSI in discussions: 12 Elders in discussions: 12 Emerging professionals in discussions: 0 To be fair, it's unusual for emerging professional members to be in leadership roles (though I'm sure they would be admitted to this group if they asked), so their lack of participation here is not surprising. However, similar statistics are found in other LinkedIn groups, in 4specs discussions, and elsewhere. In essence, it's a problem that plagues us in all areas: we spend a lot of time preaching to the choir. We advertise for members in our own publications, and we ignore the many potential members who are engineers. We claim to be an organization that represents all who are involved in construction, yet ignore two of the most important groups: owners and contractors. We do a good job telling our members about coming events, but rarely go outside to invite non-members to our meetings. We tell each other about awards members have received, but make no effort to tell others what our members have done or why the awards are important. And we talk a lot about getting younger people involved, but it seems we spend our time talking about them, not with them. In the next few posts, I'm going to add some context to our discussions. The membership statistics that have been presented on LinkedIn are interesting, but by themselves it's hard to know what they mean. How are we doing compared to other organizations? It's obvious that we're suffering, but is that unique? Are other organizations facing the same problems? I'm not saying it's o.k. to have trouble recruiting new members because everyone else has the same problem, but it would help to know if what we’re experiencing is a result of what we do or don’t do, or if it’s a result of societal changes. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 19 By now, I'm sure most members are aware that our membership is declining, but I doubt that more than a few know how our membership has changed over the years. The graph shows our membership curve, from our beginning in 1948 to the present. I'm not indicating specific numbers for a couple of reasons. For most years, I relied on anecdotal reports I found in narrative histories written by various members, and those numbers didn't always agree. For the period 1999 through 2007, I used figures obtained from reports I received while serving on the Institute board. There are many years before 1999 for which I have no information, but adding those numbers would not materially affect the curve. I recall seeing claims that our membership was near 19,000 several years ago, but I was unable to find confirmation, so I left the curve as you see it, topping out at just over 18,000. It has been suggested that part of the reason for the falling membership after 2000 has been the economy, and indeed, we have had some bad times since then. However, during the first forty years, we went through eight recessions, in 1949, 1953, 1958, 1960, 1969, 1973, and 1980. Despite those slowdowns, membership grew. The graph indicates the economy probably had some effect, but the trend was always up. Since 1988, we have had more recessions. As might be expected, they had an adverse effect on membership, but subsequent recoveries had no restorative effect. And now, even during an improving economy, the trend continues down. The question, then, is this: What is different now? Why did membership grow the first forty years, despite economic conditions, and why is it not now responding to an improving business climate? It's easy to blame the economy, but I don't think that argument holds up. © 2014, Sheldon Wolfe, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, CSC Agree? Disagree? Leave your comments at http://swconstructivethoughts.blogspot.com/ and http:// swspecificthoughts.blogspot.com/. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 20 DIRECTORS Mark Buck, Chapter Director (615) 973-2013 [email protected] Jarrod Finger, Chapter Director (615) 953-9474 ext. 704 (615) 658-8145 fax [email protected] OFFICERS Jim Christain, President (615) 386-9962 (615) 495-1971 cell [email protected] Eric Lundquist, Immediate Past President (615) 681-2484 [email protected] Rick Jones, President Elect (615) 367-1333 (615) 367-6918 fax [email protected] Kevin Russell, Chapter Director (615) 767-6139 [email protected] Melanie Kenney, 2nd VP (615) 979-9497 [email protected] Jack Potter, Treasurer (615) 370-8500 (615) 370-8530 fax [email protected] Randy Huffman, Chapter Director (513) 256-7360 [email protected] Devin Righter, Chapter Director (615) 690-7200 [email protected] Jerry Curtis, 1st VP (615) 790-2828 [email protected] Dan Cress, Secretary (615) 377-9773 (615) 370-4147 fax [email protected] Steve Honey, Chapter Director (615) 533-7886 [email protected] About Us... Founded in 1948, CSI is a non-profit technical organization dedicated to the advancement of construction technology through communication, research, education, and service. CSI serves the interests of architects, engineers, specifiers, contractors, product manufacturers, and others in the construction industry. Specifacts is published monthly by the Nashville Chapter CSI. This publication acts as a moderator without approving, disapproving or guaranteeing the validity or accuracy of any data, claims or opinions appearing under a byline or obtaining or quoted from an acknowledged source. The Chapter does not constitute any endorsement of products featured in advertisements. SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 21 COMMITTEE CHAIRS & CO-CHAIRS Kevin Russell, Academic Liaison (615) 767-6139 [email protected] Devin Righter, Membership (615) 690-7200 [email protected] Troy Williams, Awards (615) 356-9911 (615) 352-6737 fax [email protected] Tiffany Goulet, Electronic Communication (615) 333-1000 (615) 333-1006 fax [email protected] Jerry Curtis, Programs (615) 790-2828 [email protected] Beth Hargis, Publications/Editor (615) 370-8500 (615) 370-8530 fax [email protected] Carl Manka, Certification (615) 504-6625 (615) 366-3992 fax [email protected] Loretta Baltz, Friendship (615) 844-1017 (615) 250-9425 fax [email protected] Jarrod Finger, EP Sponsorship Chair (615) 953-9474 ext. 704 (615) 658-8145 fax [email protected] Jerry Curtis, Technical (615) 790-2828 [email protected] Tom Parshall, Planning (615) 399-5275 (615) 399-5285 fax [email protected] Melanie Kenney, Product Show (615) 979-9497 [email protected] Vickie Dyer Long, Product Show Vice-Chair (615) 844-1017 (615) 250-9425 fax [email protected] Michael Gober, Education (615) 351-7468 [email protected] Nashville Chapter CSI Contact Us www.csinashville.org Construction Specifications Institute P.O. Box 25267 Nashville, TN 37202 BE SURE TO CHECK US OUT ON LINKEDIN, FACEBOOK, AND TWITTER!!! CSI NASHVILLE CHAPTER SPECIFACTS•JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2014 PAGE 22
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