Portland CSI CDT Study Course

(Construction Documents Engineering science)

Are y'all interested in furthering your professional education and providing better services to your clients?

Then become CDT (Construction Documents Technology) certified with the support of Portland's CSI. We offering classes with experienced instructors to help you sympathize the fabric needed to laissez passer the exam.

CSI professional credentials are bear witness of proven noesis, educational activity, and feel with construction documents and project delivery. Holding a certification demonstrates professional person delivery, credibility and reliability to employers, colleagues, and clients.

This nine-class serial is useful for anyone in the A/E/C industry who is interested in agreement the procedure, roles/responsibilities, and project delivery from cradle to grave. This class is also beneficial as an additional resource to the textbook for preparing for the CDT exam. Through CSI'south Certification Program, y'all can develop a conceptual understanding of the entire structure procedure and concrete skills y'all will use in every aspect of your work.

The CDT examination is the foundational class for anyone who works in the built environment. Getting CDT certification ways that you understand how a project unfolds from conception to commitment, roles and responsibilities of the projection team and all of the contract documentation involved.

Frequently Asked Questions

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THE CLASS

Classes begin Thursday, February 17th and will ALL exist via live Zoom Webinar to make the form attainable for everyone, anywhere.

You need not exist a CSI Member to annals. Classes are alive and will not exist recorded so there volition exist no makeup classes available at this time.

  • Go a CSI Member and Salve Money:

    Something to Consider: Get a CSI Member and save a lot of money on your class and exam!

    Become a Member Here: https://www.csiresources.org/bring together and don't forget to choose your Chapter affiliation.

    The difference in costs for Fellow member vs. Not-Member for both the course and the examination more than covers a CSI Membership.  Why not become certified AND have access to incredible industry education and events all year long in your Chapter.

    Trust me, you will thank me after!

  • Where:

    Via Zoom Webinar on Thursday nights starting time Feb 17th, 2022. (Note: There are 2 exceptions noted beneath)

  • When:

    Thursday February 17th, 24th, Wednesday March 2nd, Thursday March 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st, April seventh, 14th and Tuesday, Apr 19th.

    Each class is two hours, from 5pm to 7pm Pacific Time.

  • Contact:

    Cherise Lakeside, Instructor, Portland CSI

    cheriselakeside@gmail.com

  • Portland CSI CDT Class Just (does not include exam registration fee or form materials):

    • Members: $150

    • Not-members: $500

    • Students (Pupil ID required): $75

    This is a STEAL for twenty hours of industry pedagogy that yous will use for the rest of your career.

    All classes are eligible for AIA LU Credit.

    Note – When you Register on the Portland CSI Website: Please provide your most accessible electronic mail address when registering equally all Zoom invites and course information will exist sent to that electronic mail.

  • Your Instructor:

    Cherise Lakeside, FCSI, CDT
    Senior Specification Writer
    RDH Edifice Science, Inc.

    Cherise is the Senior Spec Writer for RDH Building Science, Past President of Portland CSI, Co-Chair of the Portland CSI Programs Committee, Advisor to Portland CSI Young Professionals Commission, former Director-at-Big on the Establish Board and a CSI Beau.

    She has been teaching the CDT pedagogy programme for approximately 9 years and has experience with many facets of the project team in the built surround.

    She has worked mainly in Architecture merely also in construction, MEP Technology and now in Edifice Science during her xxx+ year career in AEC.  This gives her a unique lens and education style.

    Cherise is particularly passionate about young professional evolution, public speaking and improving project coordination and communication. They call her the #CSIKraken. Connect with her on LinkedIn or y'all can follow her on Twitter @CheriseLakeside, #CSIKraken.

THE Examination

  • Establish Exam Registration Dates and Costs – Spring 2022:

    • Exam Window (Exams are at a Prometric Testing Eye or can be remotely proctored) is May 2nd to June 8th, 2022.

    • Registration for Exams is through Plant and not through Portland CSI. Class registration is through Portland CSI.

    • Pass/Fail Notifications Sent: January 2022.

  • Early Exam Registration: February 1st to March 9th, 2022

    $375 CSI Fellow member/$625 Non-fellow member

  • Standard Registration: March 10th to May 4th, 2022

    $460 CSI Member/$795 Not-member

  • Final Registration: May 5th to May 20th, 2022

    $545 CSI Member/$935 Non-Member

  • Pupil Registration All Dates (with Valid ID)

    $165

    Please Note: This is in addition to the Portland CSI Class. To annals and pay for your exam, you must become to https://www.csiresources.org/certification/cdt.  When y'all receive your registration confirmation, it volition include instructions on how to schedule a test date at a local testing middle or make arrangements for an online proctored exam.

    The earlier you annals for the exam, the lower the cost.  The before you schedule your exam date at a testing center, the more choices you volition take for dates.  It is very of import that you do all 3 of these steps.

  1. Register and pay for the CDT form with Portland CSI.

  2. Register and pay for the exam with Institute. (PDX CSI has no involvement in this piece of the process.)

  3. When you receive your confirmation, follow the instructions to schedule your examination date with a local testing centre.

  • Materials you volition Need for the Course:

  1. Project Delivery Practice Guide tertiary Edition.

  2. AIA A201, Full general Weather of the Contract for Construction, 2017 Edition

  3. Gratuitous Test Candidate Handbook located here – Please read this carefully : https://www.csiresources.org/certification/cdt/cdt-exam-description

  4. There are other materials that will help your knowledge edifice.  You lot can review the listing here: https://www.csiresources.org/certification/cdt/cdt-source-materials

Please review the Examination Overview AND download the Free Examination Candidate Handbook for information about the CDT and exam here: https://www.csiresources.org/certification/cdt/cdt-exam-description

  • Additional Information:

    AIA Learning Units are bachelor with each class except for the final review class.