As a safety consultant, the most frequent question I am asked is "How can I significantly lower my workers compensation premium?" After all, every dollar not spent on insurance is 100 percent bottom line, non-taxable profit.
I'm in a bad mood right now, which makes it a good time to address a pet peeve. The reason is a phone call I made-two phone calls, actually-trying to reschedule an annual appointment with my ophthalmologist.
Listen closely and you will hear the voice of the scaffold and access industry getting louder. It is a voice that is not only being heard in the United States but throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia, as well.
Call me a rock nerd but lime amazes me. It's not just that lime reacts so violently when slaked with water. Or that limestone, like gypsum, goes from limestone rock to lime and back to limestone form again in a circular chemical process.
The Macomb County Chapter (metropolitan Detroit) of Habitat for Humanity and the Insulating Concrete Form Association joined forces to build a home in Roseville, Mich. The home will be a 1,200 square foot unit using both insulating concrete forms and structural insulated panels.
Every three years the Gypsum Association publishes a new edition of its flagship publication, "GA-600, Fire Resistance Design Manual (FRDM)," and this year we are rolling out the 2006 (18th) edition.
Once upon a time, long before there were ads for lawyers on every corner, television, radio station, billboard and listed on 72 pages of every phone book in the country, job-site practical jokes were commonplace.
This is part one of a two-part article on flashings. Flashings are a very important part of an EIFS-clad wall assembly but are not an EIFS product per se. Hence, their use is a matter of general design and construction, i.e., an architectural and contracting issue, and not an EIFS issue.
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