If someone were to ask you what Division 17 is all about, would you know? Chances are that you may not yet, but you will soon. Before you can understand Division 17, first you have to be familiar with the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).
CSI is an individual membership technical society whose core purpose is to improve the process of creating and sustaining the built environment. One of the ways in which it improves the process is by creating the “MasterFormat,” a master list of numbers and titles for organizing information about construction requirements, products, and activities into a standard sequence. The MasterFormat was introduced in 1963. The latest edition was published in 1995.