Lately, I’ve been giving a great deal of thought to the future. As my year as CSI president approached, I contemplated how we can leverage our past successes to increase our positive impact on the construction industry.
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Widely used in buildings ranging from retail/office complexes to hospitals, storefront and window wall systems are specified for ground-level fenestration and entrances, and for punched and horizontal bands (or ribbons) of windows.
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Preformed silicone transition membranes are increasingly used to integrate fenestration components with the building’s weather-resistive barrier (WRB). This is thanks to increasing recognition of their important role in maintaining WRB continuity at vulnerable transitions between dissimilar exterior wall systems.
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Certification in the construction industry provides return-on-investment (ROI) and market differentiation, as well as improves safety and quality by establishing best practices.
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After suffering property damage, the last thing a building owner wants is another failure of the same system. After determining the failure’s cause, an appropriate and durable remedy should be designed and implemented.
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CSI has created a new series to build knowledge and improve project delivery by offering workforce development for young professionals.
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Limestone at the base of a building façade is vulnerable to staining from various sources, including planting beds or soil adjacent to the wall, water or snow collecting against the building, and ice-melters used on sidewalks and paving.
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Manufacturer guide specifications are developed as a tool to make specifiers’ lives easier and to increase the chances of that manufacturer becoming listed, or better yet, the basis of design (BOD).
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In this conclusion of a two-part look at project management, the author examines the importance of documents (the best way to avoid construction problems), along with a look at forensic documentation analysis (FDA).
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Project managers are the only ones who control each and every activity in construction so they must be synergistic. In many ways, after all, the ultimate success or failure lies in their hands.
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