CSI Divisions Expand But Not to Everyone’s Liking 5/3/2004
As Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. CEO Patrick MacLeamy urges the construction industry to change its processesby standardizing more and collaborating differentlythe Construction Specifications Institute is forcing change its own way with its vastly revamped 40-year-old MasterFormat classification system.
After nearly three years of retooling and no small bit of controversy, CSI has finished expanding and changing its system, which it previewed at its annual meeting, held April 21-23 in Chicago. CSI claims that 95% of the nonresidential construction industry uses the system in writing specs for bids and documents.