This award is, in part, recognition for a series of five continuing education seminars that Devine developed on "The Bid Process." Devine has delivered these seminars to architects and building owners since 1995. All of the seminars are registered with the AIA Continuing Education program for Architects.

The award will be presented to John Devine at the national Construction Specifications Institute convention in Las Vegas in June.

JHD Construction has been serving the Greater Atlanta area for commercial/industrial construction since 1989. The firm has completed numerous projects in the public and private sectors for clients that include Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Emory University, Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, Nations Bank, Six Flags Over Georgia, and Crawford Communications, Inc.

The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) is an 18,000 member technical society whose core purpose is to improve the process of creating and sustaining the built environment. The Institute provides technical information and products, continuing education, professional conferences, and product shows to enhance communication among all disciplines of nonresidential building design and construction and meet the industry's need for a common system of organizing and presenting construction information. CSI's members include architects, engineers, constructors, specifiers of construction products, suppliers of construction products, building owners, and facilities managers. Founded in 1948, CSI is headquartered outside Washington in Alexandria, VA, and has 143 local chapters nationwide. For more information, go to http://www.csinet.org.