Associations

Construction and Building (NOR-US)

North American Wholesale Lumber Association (NAWLA)

NAWLA “is an international trade association of over 650 leading forest and building products industry wholesalers, manufacturers and industry affiliated companies throughout the United States and Canada. NAWLA is dedicated to enhancing professionalism, to maintaining the integrity of lumber distribution and to the responsible use of forest resources.

The Construction Specifications Institute

Contact:csi@csinet.org

“The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) is a national professional association that provides technical information and products, continuing education, professional conferences, and product shows to enhance communication among all the nonresidential building design and construction industry's disciplines and meet the industry's need for a common system of organizing and presenting construction documents”.

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Truss Plate Institute (TPI)

Contact: online email

Mission: To maintain the wood truss industry on a sound engineering basis. To accomplish this purpose, the Truss Plate Institute establishes methods of design in construction of wood trusses in accordance with the American National Standards Institute's accredited consensus procedures for coordination and development of American National Standards.

US Green Building Council

Promotes green building, profitable and healthy places to live and work