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\"\"<\/a>The CSI-Connect Community is a members-only, password-protected forum where construction industry professionals can interact in real-time to exchange insight and ideas. They can also relax and discuss some of the more nuanced aspects of their work, like they did in response to a question about what childhood gift previewed their career as a specifier. Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Christmas present that really got me going was a Kenner Building Set. Green base with holes punched on a grid, a series of plastic \u2018structural\u2019 elements that plugged together, and a bunch of wall panels that snapped onto the structural ones.\u201d \u2013 Joel Niemi CSI.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me it was the Girder and Panel building set, and pre-LEGO American Plastic bricks. I would spend hours building and trying new ways of using the materials.\u201d \u2013 Clinton Newton, CSI, CDT, LEED AP.<\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up on LEGOs, but what sealed the deal was a copy of Architectural Graphic Standards, 6th<\/sup> Edition, that I received while in high school. I had expressed an interest in architecture at the time and my parents gave me a copy of the very expensive reference book the Christmas before graduation.\u201d \u2013 Ronald Geren, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, CDT, AIA, CSC, SCIP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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