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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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

"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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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)
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Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 01:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

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:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

They were founded in Atlanta, Georgia on November 9th, 1956.

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