Amid much debate and discussion, the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA), Bethesda, Md., recently submitted its official proposal to add a new Integrated Building Systems division to ...

The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) today announced that it is introducing a new annual revision process for maintaining and updating MasterFormat. A product of CSI and Construction ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. — The Construction Specifications Institute MasterFormat Expansion Task Team on Feb. 25 released Draft Three of a revised MasterFormat document and called on interested parties to ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) released an outline for an industry-wide education program to help the commercial-institutional construction industry's transition to ...

After more than a year of speculation concerning the possibility of a new Division 17 for telecommunications installations, the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) approved revisions to its ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA — The Construction Specifications Institute’s (CSI’s) Executive Committee recently adopted a concept for revising and expanding the organization’s flagship document, the 16-division ...

The importance of concrete polishing in construction has been given official recognition with the creation of a new section in the MasterFormat system published by the Construction Specifications ...

ALEXANDRIA, VA. — The Construction Specifications Institute in January completed major content development for the 2004 edition of MasterFormat, the specifications-writing standard for most ...

CSI, based in Alexandria, Va., says Draft 4 came in response to the outcry over an earlier draft, which was deemed too complicated. The latest draft has 50 division numbers in three groupings, versus ...