In our current building climate, rockers, tapers, finishers, all want a complete range of products to handle every job. And the manufacturers seem eager to please, as every tradeshow will undoubtedly showcase the latest of a company’s line.
Walls & Ceilings is honored to present the winners of our annual Excellence in Design Awards contest. The categories awarded this year are Ceilings, Drywall, EIFS/Stucco, Interior Plaster/Ornamentation and Metal Framing.
What
a year. Good riddance and let’s hope for a turn around in 2009. Most people
feel surviving 2009 will be the key and things should improve in 2010. With
banks failing, construction starts down, and stocks in the tank, it can only
get better. This year was a bad year for us in the industry on another front.
Most people think of being smart as knowing a lot of stuff. I have a different definition of smart. That’s knowing what you don’t know. Although the world is filled with self-styled know-it-alls, the truth is that nobody knows more than a tiny fraction of all there is to know about any given subject.
In our March 2008 column, we discussed the ever-growing online library of technical documents published by the Gypsum Association. To restate one of the major points made in that column, one of our most important roles in the industry is that of providing the most current technical information on gypsum products to three target audiences: contractors, design professionals, and building officials.
The Construction Specifications Institute, the organization responsible for the creation of MasterFormat used by specifiers, architects, manufacturers, and contractors throughout the United States, is entering the world of sustainable design with GreenFormat-a product data guide developed to track green properties of building materials and components used during construction.
There are two basic ways of terminating the edge of an EIFS. One is by using the EIFS materials themselves, and the other is using some type of non-EIFS trim product, such as preformed plastic or metal pieces.
Until
recently, the Forest Stewardship Council has had a lock on what has been
generally recognized, in the United States at least, as the only legitimate
sustainably harvested wood products label organization. All that is coming to a
rather abrupt end with the United States Green Building Council’s proposed
changes to its Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design green building rating
system and the Green Building Initiative’s Green Globes rating system just now
entering the fray.
Welcome to Walls & Ceilings’ Second Annual Tool & Equipment Guide, a showcase of product availability from companies catering to contractors in North America. Presenting new and existing product lines, the following showcase displays a collective assortment of the tools of the trade within all realms of the wall and ceiling community.
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