Constructive Thoughts

Observations and musings about architecture and the construction industry.

21 June 2024

Donald Engelhard, FCSI, looking for a home

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In the July 2011 edition of The Fellows , newsletter of the CSI College of Fellows, my "History of Fellows Update" included this: ...
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10 November 2023

Milton Potee, FCSI, WWII Veteran

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While searching for information about CSI's Fellows, I discovered many were veterans. Given that CSI was founded in 1948, immediately ...
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11 July 2023

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CSI convention memories Each year, as the annual CSI convention approaches, I can't help but think back to other conv...
30 May 2023

Memorial Day thoughts: Veterans, space probes, and a CSI Fellow

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In the many years I’ve been working with the College of Fellows, I often have considered writing about the Fellows who served in World War ...
13 December 2018

A Dickens of a tale, revisited

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This is an update of a piece I first published in 2007. I tweaked it just a bit to update some of the references. I hope you enjoy it! ...
02 August 2018

Memories: TeamCS and MWGTW

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I've been having a lot of fun lately, going through boxes of old Construction Specifier magazines, paper files I accumulated at the offi...
22 May 2018

The CSI College of Fellows on Facebook

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The CSI College of Fellows has two Facebook pages. One, at https://www.facebook.com/FCSICollegeofFellows/ , is the official page, where anno...
14 May 2018

Head to head

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It's been thirty-three years since I took my first job as a specifier. This glorious career came to an early end a few months ago when I...
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After graduating in 1975 with a BArch, I worked for a geodesic dome company for seven years, then as a partner in a small architectural firm. In 1985 I took my first job as a specifier, for the University of Minnesota. After seven years there, I worked another two years in the public sector, at the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission in St. Paul. Since 1994 I have worked for large architectural firms. I have been fairly active in CSI, serving seven years on CSI's national Technical Committee, and three years as Institute Director from CSI's North Central Region. I have written more than three hundred articles for CSI newsletters and trade magazines, under the headings "TechNotes", "GUI Bytes", "Mr. Wolfe Goes to Washington", and "Curmudgeon's Corner".
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