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President’s
Message This year CSI New Jersey will be getting back to our roots. We will focus on CDT education and certification for as many members as possible. We will grow our membership numbers and build professional networking relationships. Cut and Paste.................... That is why I joined the CSI. Technology is a wonderful and awe inspiring thing. I like technology. I’m usually one of the first to get a new gadget when it hits the market. The wheels turn in my head; how can I use this at work and play? How can it make my life easier, and if it won’t make my life easier, is it just plain old fun to use? Cut and Paste has become a major part of our lives. Word Processing is a great technological advancement. It has made the type writer extinct, as well as speed up the specification writing process in the construction industry. It also has some drawbacks. Specifications have sometimes become poorly written, because of Cut and Paste. It’s become all too easy to paste specifications from one project manual into another. Canned specifications from architectural product manufactures are downloaded and pasted into new project manuals with the greatest of ease. Usually these canned specifications, which are meant to be edited, are left unchanged and full of redundant options and unwanted or unneeded features. Worse yet a bidder may price the lowest common denominator listed in the specifications, when in fact the owner and architect were looking for something more. Yes, the reason I joined CSI is Cut and Paste. I’ve been in the same subcontracting industry full time since 1980, and I have watched specifications deteriorate since the advent of Word Processing. I’ve watched the number of professional specification writers dwindle, as they have been slowly replaced by canned specification manuals. I’ve always been willing to assist architects with specifications and the editing of canned specifications. The construction industry and architects must step up to the plate. We must work together to correct the problems of Cut and Paste. I urge everyone; architects, contractors and subcontractors alike. Join CSI. Build professional relationships and enjoy networking opportunities. Help make yourself available to end the curse of Cut and Paste. Help become part of the solution. Simply using technology to make our job easier is not good enough. We must use it wisely or continue to suffer our Cut and Paste fate. Please join CSI and build the professional relationships we all need. Join now >> click here. Chuck Vetter, CSI, AAADM |
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