I like choices. Who doesn’t? When I was in
college on a study abroad program for a semester, I visited then
communist-ruled East Berlin and got a little
taste of what it was like to live life with very few choices.
Everyone’s heard of Stonehenge in England-the
weird stone blocks in the middle of a field. But who has heard of Foamhenge in Virginia? It is a full
size replica of the real Stonehenge made of
EIFS. Who could dream up a cooler name?
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, 30 percent of companies misclassify employees. Misclassification is defined as employees being referred to as independent contractors and it is a violation of the law.
I have long been bothered by the fact that legislative bodies have been broadly requiring that buildings be certified by nongovernmental private organizations such as the USGBC and its LEED green building rating systems (also included on the list is the GBI’s Green Globes rating system).
I wrote this a few days after the scary incident in early April when a 5-foot long gash ripped open atop the fuselage of a Southwest Airlines jet while the aircraft was cruising more than six miles up in the air.
Every day in the United States, more than 10,000 workers are injured on the job with 14 of those injuries resulting in death. While the sheer number of those injuries is staggering, the financial impact to employers is crippling.
When constructing a fire-rated partition, the prescribed gypsum panels must be applied to comply with the information provided in the corresponding fire test. To do otherwise is to risk compromising the integrity of the fire-rated system.
There are lots of small details and design features about EIFS that can help create a better-completed EIFS project. This month’s column is a list of many known-and not-so-well-known-design features that you should be aware of.
We’ve all watched and enjoyed the Discovery Channel television show “How It’s Made” and maybe even had a passing thought about how great it would be to have such a program showcase and explain to the general public what it is we do.
In these uncertain times, contractors have to make decisions that will ultimately have an impact on your business and livelihood. What job to take, which ones to pass up, when to cut staff, when to add staff, where do you add them, when to expand or even drop a certain segment of the market that is just not worth it-decisions, decisions.
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