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Author Message David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 596 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 07:48 pm:    Besides CSI and AIA, what other trade/professional organizations are you a member? The comment came up at our last specifier's share group. Some people mentioned that it is cheaper to become a member of ACI and buy their books at member price than buy the book at a nonmember price. Me personally, I take the Groucho Marx approach when it comes to membership. ;-) Richard L Matteo, AIA, CSI, CCS Senior Member Username: rlmat Post Number: 140 Registered: 10-2003 Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 08:29 pm:    What's the Groucho Marx approach? In addition to AIA & CSI, I currently belong to SSPC, NFPA, ASTM (through my firm), & ICC William C. Pegues, FCSI, CCS Senior Member Username: wpegues Post Number: 519 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 08:47 pm:    AWI, and though there is a discount on publications that more than pays for membership, that's not why. I also served on their national board of directors for 3 years. Sheryl Dodd-Hansen, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, MAI, SCIP Senior Member Username: sheryldh Post Number: 25 Registered: 09-2002 Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 09:21 pm:    Specifications Consultants in Independent Practice - and to help with my CSI and SCIP responsibilities, I joined the American Institute of Parliamentarians (AIP). It's great to be able to take questions to people who really know how parliamentary procedure is supposed to work. George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 104 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Monday, January 23, 2006 - 10:34 pm:    Groucho Marx :"I'd never consider joining a group that would accept me as a member" (or something like that), although I thought that was a Mark Twain remark. Is SCIP open to specifiers who are not independent? If so, to what level? Since I work for an A/E firm, the anti-Groucho applies... I want to join a group that won't have me for a member. To answer the original question, only CSI and AIA, but I will be joining USGBC later this year. Ronald L. Geren, RA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, MAI Senior Member Username: specman Post Number: 210 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 12:16 am:    ASTM, ICC, AWI, and SCIP (Correspondent member). Sheryl Dodd-Hansen, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, MAI, SCIP Senior Member Username: sheryldh Post Number: 26 Registered: 09-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 01:22 am:    SCIP members passed a bylaws ballot measure in 2005 that opens participation in SCIP to non-independent specifiers. Affiliates may be specifier employees of other firms, as defined in the approved bylaws revisions. The new application for membership and invoice are available through the Member Application link at www.scip.com. SCIP members look forward to meeting new Affiliates at the upcoming meeting in Las Vegas. John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 461 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 09:36 am:    SCIP, as an affiliate member, because they actually do good stuff. AWI because their publications are cheaper. Also, the BSA (Boston Society of Architects) the local AIA affiliate which has an extremely active membership and a bunch of good committees. My employer pays for AIA, BSA and CSI--for the first time in my career I haven't had to pay for the memberships and conventions out of my own pocket. Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wyancey Post Number: 97 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 10:52 am:    David, Seattle Building Enclosure Council (SeaBEC) because it is focused on building science which is the area I practice (but have not mastered). I also plan to join SCIP. Wayne Anne Whitacre, CCS CSI Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 292 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 01:33 pm:    SCIP, AWI, SSPC AWI is a great deal -- the membership discount on publications is 90% -- so you can buy the AWI manual for less than $10 each. I've been a SCIP "real member" and now am an affiliate member -- its the only group that actually addresses what specifiers do David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI Senior Member Username: david_axt Post Number: 598 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 02:12 pm:    "I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER." - Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977) George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 105 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 02:22 pm:    David- I stand corrected. Rumors of Mark Twain's involvement in this quote are greatly exaggerated. Anonymous   Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 11:59 am:    Wayne, you mean pseudoscience, don't you? Did you see that rigged water pressure test last SeaBEC meeting? The "building scientist" drilled a small hole in the window that failed, but not in the window that passed. Really scientific... Jonathan M. Miller, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP, AIA, NCARB (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 01:56 pm:    I belong to AIA (I'm an architect and this says so), CSI (the best organization I belong to that has done the most for me over the years), SCIP (because I'm a specifier and lie to communicate with other of like....) BSR (Building For Social Responsibility) because I'm green and this is a very nice group of hippies, VGBN (Vermont Green Bulding Network...a chapter of USGBC) because it's a true grass roots organization and I was on it's first board.....also my FIRM belongs to USGBC....do they offer individual memberships now? Helaine K. (Holly) Robinson CSI CCS CCCA Senior Member Username: hollyrob Post Number: 205 Registered: 07-2003 Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 11:35 am:    I have, at one time or another, found value in the American Society of Professional Estimators, the ACI, the ASQ, the AACE and the Project Management Institute. Anonymous   Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 12:46 pm:    Do any of you know anything about SARA (Society of American Registered Architects)? Jonathan Miller (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:43 pm:    SARA was started by (I believe) upstate New York Architects as an alternative to the AIA's exclusiveness in 1956. They have grown ever since. Check out their website at http://www.sara-national.org/ Jonathan Miller (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 04:56 pm:    They were founded in Atlanta, Georgia on November 9th, 1956.