The SCOPE Newsletter
MAY CHAPTER MEETING
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Forensic engineer Liberty Lewis of SBSA, Inc. spoke at our May Chapter Meeting about "Critical Architectural Details to Reduce Potential for Water Intrusion."
JUNE CHAPTER MEETING We wrap up every fiscal year with our June Chapter meeting. We have more tabletop displays than usual, year-end Chapter awards are presented, and ice cream is served. After this meeting, we won't meet again as a Chapter until September. Don't miss this opportunity to wrap up the CSI year, and kick off the summer, at our June meeting. If you're interested in helping to select next fiscal year's programs for our monthly Chapter meetings, contact Liz O'Sullivan at liz@lizosullivanarch.com.
DENVER FISCAL YEAR 2016: CREATING A FOUNDATION FOR SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION
May 2016 HOW DID WE GET HERE? Sheldon Wolfe, RA, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, CSC … To understand what made CSI grow, we must look at what it was about construction documents that encouraged the formation of CSI. We could search for documents from that time and analyze them, or we could use the original goals of the organization as an indicator of what was wrong with construction documents. Consider this list of the five priorities, and what they suggest - if these things were not problems, there would have been no reason fixing them would have been a goal!
Better specification writing. Unless specifications were poorly written, there would have been no need for improvement. I have read specifications written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and I will tell you they could have been better.
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