Business View Magazine | March 2019

trends in the industry. The manufacturers basi- cally want to know that we’re going to have contractors and distributors there, so we would say it’s a good opportunity to meet the people who are installing your products to learn what their challenges are and what they need. We hear from a lot of manufacturers that innova- tions in their products come from talking to the people who install it, so we try to talk that up, as well.” CISCA employs only two full-time people, so the bulk of the Association’s work is done by its members who serve on four councils: Techni- cal, Events, Membership, and Communications. “And within the council structure, we have task forces that work on individual projects,” explains Garrett Larson, CISCA’s President. “For example, the Technical Council is working on the EPD. (An EPD, or Environmental Product Declaration, is an independently verified and registered document that communicates trans- parent and comparable information about the life-cycle environmental impact of a product). 139 AT A GLANCE THE CEILINGS AND INTERIOR SYSTEMS CONSTRUCTION ASSOCIATION WHAT: Representing the interior construc- tion, acoustical ceilings, and acoustical treat- ment industry WHERE: Oak Brook, Illinois WEBSITE: www.cisca.org TION Attendees to an education session at the 2018 Convention