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APRIL IS THE BUSIEST MONTH

No fooling', your Greater St. Louis Chapter will be busy during the month of April. Next Wednesday, April 8 brings our regularly scheduled monthly meeting at the Masonry Institute of St. Louis. BUILDING THE UNCONVENTIONAL BY REDEFINING THE CONVENTIONS demonstrates how computational design is not just ...

CSI Town Hall on New Dynamic Standards 3/31

In February, CSI National announced the rollout of "The Construction Standard," a controversial new method to control licensing and to protect the trademarks on their flagship intellectual property, MasterFormat. The succeeding month saw a stunning rise of dissatisfaction expressed by CSI members on ...

MasterFormat

MasterFormat® is a master list of numbers and titles identifying work results and construction practices, primarily used to organize project manuals and detailed cost information, and relate drawing notations to specifications. The seeds of MasterFormat go back to the middle of the last century, when ...

Bylaw Revisions

Earlier this week, chapter members received a poll requesting your vote to approve our new bylaws. The bylaws needed to be changed to conform with recent changes to the CSI National bylaws. The bulk of the changes are verbal and technical alignments with CSI National's modifications to terminology, and ...

Three New Bonus Sessions for the 2026 Program Schedule

Our 2025-2026 Program year wraps up in May. In addition to our regular Second Wednesday of the Month, meetings, we've added three BONUS learning opportunities. Whether. you are a regular attendee or a first timer, you'll probably find something of interest among our upcoming offerings:: February 11: ...

BUILDING THE UNCONVENTIONAL BY REDEFINING THE CONVENTIONS

Posted By George Everding, FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS®, CCCA® 01-20-2026 04:59 PM
Found In Community: Greater Saint Louis Events
BUILDING THE UNCONVENTIONAL BY REDEFINING THE CONVENTIONS Computational design is not just a tool for form generation—it is reshaping how architects and contractors document, coordinate, and deliver complex buildings. This session examines how unconventional approaches to contract documentation, ...

11/12/25 Program -- "What's New in Concrete?"

It's not your grandfather's "5-sack concrete" any more! WHAT'S NEW IN CONCRETE? November Program [On behalf of the rest of the grandfathers and grandmothers in construction who remember specifying concrete strength by number of sacks in the mix, Grandpa George feels compelled to explain what that ...

GRENFELL TOWER FIRE: A Review of the Public Inquiry Report

Posted By George Everding, FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS®, CCCA® 10-16-2025 02:06 PM
Found In Library: Greater Saint Louis
Handout from my presentation at the September 24, 2025 chapter meeting.

RE: PREVIEW: New Programs Coming Soon

We have our programs for 2025-26 listed here: Upcoming Programs Information is available for many of them, and some of them are open for registration, including: Review of Grenfell Tower Inquiry Report I hope to see you on September 24 at 4:30 PM (doors open at 4) as we kick off our new year with ...

BEC/Concrete Council Program on Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF)

The Building Enclosure Council and the Concrete Council present "Application of Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF) in General Commercial Construction" on Tuesday September 16 at the Masonry Institute: Registration/Continental Breakfast: 7:30 - 8:00 AM Presentation with Tracey Lawrence and Mike Moore: ...

BEC/Concrete Council Program on Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF)

Posted By George Everding, FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS®, CCCA® 09-04-2025 09:30 PM
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YOU'RE THE JURY - STUDENT SPECIFICATION PROJECTS

Posted By George Everding, FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS®, CCCA® 09-04-2025 06:25 PM
Found In Community: Greater Saint Louis Events
Do the students coming out of our universities and colleges care about specifications and building products? Join us at our April meeting to find out. It's your chance to be the jury as architecture students present projects from their "Professional Practice" class at the Sam Fox School of Design and ...

PREVIEW: New Programs Coming Soon

Our 2025-2026 Program year starts Wednesday, September 24 and continues through May. Here's a preview of what's confirmed and what's being planned: New Earlier Start, Earlier Finish: In response to your suggestions, programs will start at 4:30 PM this year, with a goal of wrapping up by 6:00. Doors ...

Product Show 2025 Presentation "Substitutions" handout

Posted By George Everding, FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS®, CCCA® 04-29-2025 07:22 PM
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4/16 Program - "Coach, I Need a Sub!" at the Product Show

Continuing Education Returns to the St. Louis CSI Product Show. COACH, I NEED A SUB! (Improving your substitutions game with CSI) If you are attending this year's Product Show at Greensfelder Recreation Complex, Queeny Park, join Steve Gantner and me as we present "Coach, I Need a Sub" a CSI playbook ...

RE: 4/9 Program - "You're the Jury: Student Specification Projects"

We still have space available at Wednesday's "You're the Jury - Student Projects" presentation at 5:30 PM at the Masonry Institute. (Doors open at 5 PM). Six top students from the 50 in Washington University's School of Architecture Professional Practice course have been selected to present their specification ...

4/9 Program - "You're the Jury: Student Specification Projects"

On April 9, 2025, "You're the Jury: Student Specification Projects" returns to center stage at our April chapter meeting. Attendees will have a chance to review and critique architectural design projects of soon-to-be graduates from the College of Architecture at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual ...

Reviewing The Grenfell Fire Inquiry Report

The 2017 Grenfell Tower fire was the deadliest residential fire in the United Kingdom since the World War II bombings. The final report of the Grenfell Tower inquiry, released in September of 2024, detailed the results a 7-year comprehensive investigation hoping to answer the question: "How was it possible ...

Thoughts on the Grenfell Fire, and “Trusted Advisors”

Posted By George Everding, FCSI, Member Emeritus, CCS®, CCCA® 03-11-2025 11:47 PM
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George Everding's Fall 2017 article on the June 2017 Grenfell Tower Fire in London.

Programs Update: Live-streaming is Back

Live-streaming will be available again starting with our November 13 meeting: MAJOR IBC CHANGES REGARDING FIRE PROTECTION AND LIFE SAFETY presented by Code Consultants. We've scheduled a number of interactive or "on the road" programs this year that require in person attendance, but you will able to ...