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October 26, 2011

Re: Board of Directors Meeting. Date: September 24-25, 2011 Location: Toronto, Ont

New Member Initiatives This year’s New Membership Drive starts November 1, 2011 and will continue until February 29, 2012. Each CSC

Sponsoring Member will be entitled to one ballot for each new member that they sponsor, which will be entered into a

Prize Draw scheduled to coincide with the March 2012 Board of Directors meeting. Prizes will be awarded as follows:

1st Prize: an Apple 64 GB iPad with WiFi+3G or other equivalent prize of similar value

2nd to 5th Prizes: an Apple 32 GB iPod touch or other equivalent prize of similar value

Our current Membership as of January 1, 2011 is 101 members.

Membership Dues Membership dues will increase by $25.00 next season. Membership Dues have not increased since 2008.

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Chapter Website CSC is now hosting all chapter websites.

This initiative is welcomed and creates a consistent brand for CSC.

Please visit www.csc-dcc.ca click on the tab that says Calgary. There you will find Calgary related events and

information. Or go directly to the Calgary site by going to http://calgary.csc-dcc.ca/.

New Chapter: Vancouver Island A new chapter has been chartered on Vancouver Island. Currently they have 22 members and are growing. They are about to start monthly luncheon meetings, balancing between Victoria and Nanaimo. They have also having their first Connections Café on November 23rd. With regard to publications, we're about to issue our very first Vancouver Island Specifier and is planned as a bi-monthly publication.

Construction Canada Magazine Construction Canada continues to be the preferred magazine in the Canadian AEC industry. According to the September 2010 Ad Study, conducted by the independent research firm, Signet Research Inc.:

• Circulation per issue is 12,533, according to the December 2010 CCAB audit statement. With a pass-along readership of 2.9, this means Construction Canada reaches an audience of 36,345 architects, engineers, designers, specifiers and project managers.

• 76% of respondents have taken action during the past year as a result of ads of articles in Construction Canada.

• The average value of the projects Construction Canada readers work on is just over $4 million.

• When asked which one trade or professional magazine they find most useful, 85% of respondents said Construction Canada. (The next closest was Canadian Architect at 52%.)

The magazine is always looking for articles. Please put forward anything that may be of interest to the industry. As always the article should be industry related and not product/brand specific. Please contact me if you would like to see a copy of the article writing guidelines

CSP (Certified Specification Practitioner) Subcommittee The CSP sub-committee is looking for new Volunteers. The committee is looking for people with the following designations, 1 RSW & 1 CTR. If you are interested please send an email to Michael Schneider, FCSC, CCCA at

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Online Education programs Currently the following educational courses are available online.

PCD (Principals of Construction Documentation)

TR (Technical Representative)

Specifier 1 (Required for the CSP or the RSW designation)

Please look to the website for times when the online courses will be available.

Education

CCCA (Certified Construction Contract Administration The last course update was 2005. The subcommittee is currently reviewing the course material for content and aligning

the student manual, instructors manual with current practices and the PCD. Tentative completion date of review is first

quarter of 2012.

Conference 2012 Conference 2012 will be held in Ottawa, from May 23-27, 2012. Ottawa is a great city, so make sure you register early. The registration form is on the association website.

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Conference 2013 Conference 2013 will be held in Calgary, from May 22-26, 2013.

We will have the conference at the Hyatt. It’s a wonderful venue with lots of space

for sponsors and tech sessions.

Our theme is “Right Now”.

Our Conference committee is created but we do have a need of volunteers for the

sub-committee meetings. Please send Peter Hiebert an email if you are interested. Many hands make lite work.

[email protected]

2014 Grand Valley/Hamilton/Niagara/Toronto

2015 Winnipeg

2016 Fredericton: (Only just beat out Vancouver Island by one vote to host conference)

Canada BIM Council: Ganesh Bala (Calgary) Current activities at CANBIM Council are as follows:

1. First Session - CanBIM Regional Session Toronto - May 17th, 2011 2. Official release of the new website 3. Second Session - CanBIM 11 Regional Session Edmonton - September 15th, 2011 4. Release of the BIM Handover to Contractor Protocol during the CanBIM 11 Regional Session 5. Edmonton - September 15th, 2011 6. Memorandum of Understanding with AEC (UK) 7. Membership grown to 50+

Manual of Practice Maintenance Task Team (MOPMTT) A call for volunteers will be sent shortly to the people who responded positively to TSC in the survey to start this Task Team. The objective of this committee is to maintain an up to date version of the MOP. The first two tasks of this sub-committee would be:

• Revise all the definitions of the MOP, provide new definitions as required

• Determine a priority list to identify the revision order of the chapters and a revision cycle period (eq. 4 or 5 years).

Once this is done, a rotation of the chapter revisions will start in order to review all the documents within a cycle.

Institute for BIM in Canada (IBC) IBC has been accepted as the Canadian Chapter of buildingSMART International.

Jonathan Dee (Ottawa) and Claude Giguère (Montreal) are both members of the steering committee. Jonathan Dee (Ottawa) is appointed to the Practice Manual committee. We have appointed Jori Toniello (Ottawa) on the Contractual Language Committee his first meeting will be on September 19.

Submitted By:

Peter Hiebert, CTR

Chapter Director

[email protected]

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