Are contractors who pay their employees cash or who misclassify their workers as “subcontractors” for the purpose of avoiding taxes, worker compensation insurance cutting into your business?
If you could sell or offer your customers a sure fire investment of $1,700 in a seven-year CD and guarantee your customers a 10 percent return on the principle annually, would they buy? What if the accrued interest would be given to them annually tax free so they could nearly double their money in seven years?
Many argue that sound, reverberation and echo control began in ancient Greece. It was there, they say, that construction projects such as the Theater of Epidaurus achieved acoustics that allowed 14,000 spectators to hear sounds as minute as coins dropping on the performance space.
This year’s Walls & Ceilings Convention Companion features an expanding roster of trade shows serving our industry. As usual, each of these shows will present its own unique display of exhibitions, seminars, workshops and award ceremonies.
Gone are the days of a strictly male-dominated workforce in construction. According to the National Association of Women in Construction, women account for 9.6 percent of the construction sector. Walls & Ceilings was recently made aware of three special talents in the U.S. from information shared by Specialized Building Products.
Professio by Matt Henson (which specializes in ornamental, flat plaster and decorative finish restoration on historic buildings) worked with Woodpartners of Houston to repair water damage to the Texas and Pacific Train Station in Fort Worth, Texas.
Can cement stucco and EIFS work in wet climates? The answer is yes and we can prove it. A recent study from the NAHB Research Center reported that brick veneer was the most dry of all claddings they tested. They really need to know all the facts.
In my February 2009 article “The Uncertain Future of Green Building,” I made reference to an article by Joe Lstiburek titled “Prioritizing Green-It’s the Energy, Stupid,” in which he shot gaping holes in the analysis made in a USGBC-commissioned report “Energy Performance of LEED for New Construction Buildings” by the New Buildings Institute.
Two things inspired this article. One was reading a take on it by my good friend Al Levi, who writes for Plumbing & Mechanical magazine (a sister publication to Walls & Ceilings). Levi discusses his father’s absolute prohibition against his sons dating the hired help in their family business.
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