Here is what you need to know to help make that decision about taking the CDT Exam:
What benefit is driving you to consider taking the CDT exam?
- Compliance with manager/company requirements
- Increased ability to do a better job
- Establishing professional credentials
- Achieving industry recognition
- Improving communication among project team members
- Completion of prerequisite for a certification exam (CCS, CCCA, CCPR)
- Other
What Are the Requirements to Take the CDT Exam?
- Register and pay required fees to Institute
- CSI Membership is not required, but encouraged
- You can have any:
- Level of education
- Years of construction industry experience
- CDT is a lifetime certificate
What Do I Study?
The CDT exam is based solely on the following documents, the Exam Study Guide, and the Addendum to CSI Exam Study Guides:
CSI Documents
• Project Resource Manual - CSI Manual of Practice (PRM)
• MasterFormat™ (2004 Edition)
• UniFormat™ (1998 Edition)
• SectionFormat™ (2007 Edition)
• PageFormat™ (2007 Edition)
• GreenFormat™ (2008 Edition)
Conditions of the contract and contract forms
• AIA A201 or EJCDC C-700, 2007 editions
Sustainability/Green Building
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/pubs/greenbuilding_strategy_nov08.pdf • GreenFormat: www.greenformat.com/about
The exam tests basic, general material from these web pages and from Section 4.3 of the Project Resource Manual (PRP).
Integrated Project Delivery / Building Information Modeling
• AIA IPD Guide
Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide, issued November 5, 2007
www.aia.org/about/initiatives/AIAS076700
• GSA BIM Guide
U.S. GSA Building Information Modeling Guide Series 01 – Overview, version 0.60
www.gsa.gov/bim, select "3D-4D-BIM Overview”
Contact Richard C. Robinson, FCSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA, Dallas CSI Chapter Certification Chairman at 214/522-3900 with questions regarding the Certification process.
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