The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) is an individual membership technical society whose core purpose is to improve the process of creating and sustaining the built environment. The Institute provides technical information and products, professional conferences, as well as a national exhibition to enhance communication among all disciplines of nonresidential building design and construction to meet the industry’s need for a common system of organizing and presenting construction information. CSI’s more than 17,000 individual members include: architects, engineers, contractors, specifiers, suppliers, building owners, and facility managers. Founded in 1948, CSI is headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, and has more than 140 local chapters nationwide.  The Kansas City Chapter of CSI has a local membership of approximately 170 with monthly meetings typically held the first Tuesday of each month, September through May, with an Awards Banquet in May. The chapter sponsors: a fall product show, golf tournament, certification training and testing, as well as other technical and professional development seminars throughout the year. The seminars – as well as most monthly meetings – allow design professionals to obtain much needed continuing education units.  Another benefit that CSI offers is certification programs for: Certified Construction Specifier (CCS), Certified Construction Contract Administrator (CCCA), Certified Construction Product Representative (CCPR), as well as the bedrock training to be a Construction Document Technologist (CDT). The chapter also uses a nonprofit Education Foundation to provide scholarships to students enrolled in a construction related curriculum at a secondary school in the Kansas City region.