Anticipating the full publication's release, a number of major public and private construction organizations have announced that they will make the transition to the 2004 edition of MasterFormat™,

Anticipating the full publication's release, a number of major public and private construction organizations, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Navy Facilities Engineering Command, the Sweets construction products catalog, and Reed Construction Data's First Source, as well as professional liability insurance underwriters Victor O. Schinnerer & Co., Inc., have announced that they will make the transition to the 2004 edition of MasterFormat™, the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) announced. MasterFormat, a product of CSI and Construction Specifications Canada, is the specifications-writing standard used for most of North America's commercial and institutional building design and construction projects. The complete 2004 edition is due for release by year's-end.