Our 9th Meeting

 

Since its inception, CHSA has hosted eight meetings: in Atlanta (2008), Philadelphia (2010), Boston (2012), Minneapolis (2014), Austin, Texas(2016), Maryland (2018), Kennesaw (2022) and Illinois (2023).  We are very proud to be hosting our 9th meeting and celebrating 18 years of promoting and creating new knowledge in Construction History.

The 9th meeting of the Construction History Society of America will feature research and scholarship from various academics and practitioners, focusing on building design, fabrication, and construction history. This includes the physical results (infrastructure and building) and the materials, processes, and systems used in their development. We seek a broad range of eras and geographies, and topics focusing on the Americas, particularly the U.S. Midwest, are encouraged.  Presenters will include scholars, engineers, architects, preservationists, contractors, and anyone in the building industry who wants to share their knowledge with us. 

 

 
 

The Construction History Society of America (CHSA) is dedicated to the study of the history and evolution of all aspects of the built environment—its creation, maintenance and management. It is a forum for scholars and professionals in the field to share, meet and exchange ideas and research. Membership is open to a wide range of construction-related disciplines involved in the planning, development, design and construction of buildings and engineering infrastructure, in addition to those concerned with their operation and preservation. Members share a passion for examining how our existing structures were planned, designed and built, with the purpose of using this knowledge to better preserve what we have and to guide us in determining future directions.

The Construction History Society of America (CHSA) was organized in May 2007. It is a branch of the Construction History Society (CHS), based in the United Kingdom. Members of the CHSA receive a quarterly newsletter focusing on American construction history, as well as full benefits of membership of the UK CHS: Construction History, a scholarly journal and the leading international publication in its field, and links to scholars in the field worldwide. CHSA members also received discounted registration to CHSA-sponsored events.

The Construction History Society of America is proud to have hosted the 5th International Congress on Construction History, which took place in Chicago in June 2015. Nearly three hundred delegates from twenty-one countries attended the Congress. Proceedings from the Congress may be ordered in three volumes (Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3).  This was the first time the Congress was held outside Europe following the four previous congresses hosted by Madrid (2003), Cambridge (2006), Cottbus (2009), Paris (2012) and Brussels (2018).

The Construction History Society of America is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) corporation.