Construction Specifications Institute

Designed by KieranTimberlake, the app allows architects to calculate the environmental impact of building components throughout the design process. More

Mergers continue to propagate in the industry, but this week’s union is not of two practices, but rather the acquisition of software developer Building Systems Design by the Construction Specifications Institute. More

Architectural specification writers are a trade group on the wane. The professional role is being replaced, bit by bit, with digital tools—times are tough for spec writers. But don’t count them out just yet. More

GreenFormat, the free, Web-based database of green product information developed by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI), has gone live at www.greenformat.com. More

The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) recently presented the Michelangelo Award, its highest honor, to M. Arthur Gensler Jr., FAIA, FIIDA, RIBA, founder and chairman of renowned international architecture firm Gensler.  More

At the urging of industry advocates, the Construction Specifications Institute's (CSI) MasterFormat, a structured hierarchy of divisions and subsections that standardize information for construction project manuals, will now include a subsection on tubular daylighting devices (TDDs): subsection 08 62 23. More