The Knoxville Chapter of CSI

Gulf States Region Conference June 8-9, 2018
Tue, Mar 13 2018

The Knoxville Chapter is excited to host the Gulf States Region Conference on June 8 – 9, 2018 at the Holiday Inn Downtown. The theme of our conference this year is Forensics in Design + Construction, which has provided us with a tremendous opportunity to look closely at how we have been doing things, eliminating those that don’t work well and moving forward with new and better ideas.

The conference hotel is the Holiday Inn Downtown, which is perched on the 1982 World’s Fair site. Adjacent to the Holiday Inn is the iconic Sunsphere – with it’s 360 degree view of Knoxville - where we will hold our annual Awards Banquet. The conference schedule is packed with both Leadership Development and Continuing Education programs to educate and inspire you.

Please click the link at the right and visit the Registration page where you can download information about the conference and family activities to entice you to spend a little extra time here in the hills of the Smoky Mountains.

Living Green Walls - Amy Barnett-Mohr (Ambius) and Eric Westerduin (Suite Plants)
Thu, Aug 24 2017

The CSI Knoxville chapter would like to thank Amy Barnett-Mohr with Ambius and Eric Westerduin, CEO at Suite Plants for a great lunch and learn on Living Green Walls. Eric travelled from Charlotte, NC to present the concepts of green walls Return On Investment (ROI), Design, installation, planning & maintenance along with a demonstration of several actual living green wall products. The attendees were able to “kick the tires” on two examples of Living Green Walls. We had 10 attendees who enjoyed a large grilled chicken and spinach salad with the “largest blackberries in captivity” and large chocolate chip brownies for dessert. Thanks also to Jeremy Shipp at Johnson & Galyon and Will Dunklin who arranged the speakers along with Leslie Fawaz and Josh Shaffer who have coordinated with CSI to use the East Tennessee Community Design Center conference room for the technical presentations for the past several years.