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 ...

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

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 MasterFormat Expansion Task Team Oct. 22 released Draft 2 of a revised MasterFormat document. The second draft invites comments from ...

Taking the next step in revising its MasterFormat document, which currently organizes commercial construction specifications into 16 divisions, the Alexandria, Va.-based Construction Specifications ...

CSI and CSC have released the 2014 updates to MasterFormat, their flagship product used to organize construction documents for commercial, industrial, and institutional building projects in the United ...

As Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc. CEO Patrick MacLeamy urges the construction industry to change its processes by standardizing more and collaborating differently the Construction Specifications ...

The Construction Specifications Institute has created two systems for organizing information for construction projects: MasterFormat is a layer system based upon 17 divisions. UniFormat is a mixed ...

If someone were to ask you what Division 17 is all about, would you know? Chances are that you may not yet, but you will soon. Before you can understand Division 17, first you have to be familiar with ...