News Brief

CSI Establishes New Environmental Task Team

Ross Spiegel, president of Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and a board member of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), has established a new

Environmental Task Team within CSI. The team aims to incorporate environmental considerations into CSI’s operations and format documents. Among its tasks are:

• developing a performance-based environmental specification model to support the USGBC’s LEED building rating system, and

•developing a standard format to identify environmentally friendly building materials using accepted standards.

The group is chaired by Dru Meadows of TheGreenTeam, Inc. and includes CSI staff member G. Storm Cunningham. CSI can be reached at 800/689-2900.

Published November 1, 2001

(2001, November 1). CSI Establishes New Environmental Task Team. Retrieved from https://www.buildinggreen.com/newsbrief/csi-establishes-new-environmental-task-team

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