Message From the President: CSC is going to college

by Katie Daniel | April 26, 2018 11:57 am

[1]By  David Boyle, CTR
Education is one of CSC’s major focus areas. Readers familiar with the association are aware it offers courses leading to designation/certification.

The Principles of Construction Documentation (PCD) program is an introductory program enabling the participant to have a better understanding of construction documentation (i.e. specifications, drawings, and schedules), products, bidding procedures, and contracts. Contract documents and the project manual have an intrinsic relationship with each other, as well as with standard preprinted contract documents and other associated documents. The PCD course explains these relationships.

It also provides a solid foundation for those involved in the design/construction industry who are required to review or produce a project manual, and those who supply products for or rely on the project manual.

Recently, the association embarked on a pilot program with George Brown College in Toronto to integrate the PCD course with the school’s architectural technology and interior design curriculum. The purpose of this pilot program is to provide students—who are the future of the industry—with the foundational concepts of construction documentation, and to better prepare them for their entry into the industry.

The implementation of the PCD program benefits both students and colleges. The students not only receive the most up-to-date construction documentation education, but also the CSC credit for PCD if they complete the program with a B grade or higher.

The school also benefits, as CSC’s implementation team works with colleges and the faculty to overlay the curriculum and provides resources to instructors in addition to student materials and textbooks.

George Brown College is now in its second year of offering the PCD course. Humber College, also in Toronto, has embraced the opportunity as well and implemented the course in September 2017. Various other colleges in Ontario, Manitoba, and British Columbia are also now exploring this opportunity with the association.

Thanks to Kazim Kanani, CCCA, CSP, CSI, CDT, Assoc. AIA, ACIArb, for his efforts to get this program going.

CSC continues to further the future of this industry through the formal education. I have to give us an ‘A+.’

This is my last article in my role as CSC President. I would like to thank W.R. Meadows for supporting me and allowing me time away from my “paying job” to be CSC president. To all the CSC friends I have made and who have supported me, I would like to say, “Thank you!”

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