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I would like to thank all
of the members and guests that attended the
Membership Meeting on September 9th, and
hope to see you again at the next Membership
Meeting on October 14th. For those members
not in attendance, the program included the
presentation of awards by Past-President
Dean Leschak, to the Denver Chapter’s Summit
Sponsors for 2007-08 as well as recognition
of service to the Chapter by board members
and chairs during Dean’s presidency. (See
photos on Page 3.)
Following the awards presentation, Greg
Markling, Principal at MOA Architects and
Vice-President at CSI, provided a brief
overview of his involvement at Institute and
some of his goals for his two-year term that
continues until 2010. Joy Davis, CSI Web
Content Manager, provided an overview of
activities at CSI this year, including
improvements for member communications,
increased Webinar education programs, and
goals to increase chapter memberships.
Greg’s involvement with CSI has him on three
committees and two task teams. Certification
programs offered by CSI will one of his main
areas of interest. The CDT program is
currently being reviewed by a select group
of professionals and non-professionals for a
“Body of Knowledge Analysis” in order to
assure that the education and focus of the
program is current and coordinated with the
testing procedures; this effort will result
in an Integrated CDT Program that will be in
use by Fall 2009. In addition, a new
Certification program is being developed for
Integrated Project Delivery that will
recognize BIM content areas related to
construction documents. The National CADD
Standards are important to CSI and an
industry survey that will be conducted by
Pro-Metric in order to assist CSI in
developing a Body of Knowledge for the
standards.
Joy noted some of the activities at CSI that
include “the Green Format” which will be
initiated in November 2008 for presenting
“green” product information to Architects
and Engineers; this program is in the final
phases of testing. Also, a BIM practice
group is working on assembling information
on best practices and how to disseminate
this information. In addition, CSI Institute
will be providing two Webinars each week to
expand the base of education for LEED, Specs
101, Legal Issues and many other areas of
interest. Finally, ICSI will be working with
chapters to grow membership by 3% this year
and will also be developing a new “home”
website to be operational in Spring 2009.
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