Long-term Walls & Ceilings EIFS columnist Robert G. Thomas passed on July 27 in Florida. Thomas was the magazine’s author of The Finish Line since the 1990s. Since the early ’80s, he began his career working with EIFS, a subject he devoted himself to throughout the rest of his life. He was 61 years old.
His first job in the EIFS industry was working for Dryvit, where he moved to Rhode Island and began his life-long professional interest in the EIFS industry. While there, he was manager of technical services, which took him around the world. In 1984, he moved to Seattle to open Dryvit’s West Coast office, and led a business development team whose mission was to open markets in Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific.