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Ever since I learned that fiber optic cables could be used for lighting, I have been fascinated with the idea that light could be brought anywhere into a building through tiny, plastic strands. 

 Proprietary board and panel products exist, gypsum board is generally considered to be a commodity building material. 

 This is certainly a hot new term for the millennia. 

 “The building envelope shall be designed and constructed with a continuous air barrier to control air leakage into, or out of the conditioned space.”

 In a perfect world, every job runs smoothly; there are never delays, everything is done in sequence, and contractors make the profit (or better) identified on bid day. 

Subcontractors are very frustrated with the unreasonable amount of time it takes to get a change order executed and the number of change orders they have to negotiate after the work is done. 

We lost one of our own recently, and as one of our own I mean within the Walls & Ceilings family. 

 For most businessmen, it is the bottom line that counts and little else seems to matter

After a multi-punch assault on the USGBC’s LEED 2012 rating system, Rick Fedrrizzi, President of the USGBC, was forced to announce that LEED 2012 would not go to ballot as originally planned, would be renamed LEED V4, and would be delayed until June 2013. 

 A couple of weeks ago, when I was stuck in morning traffic, I started flipping through satellite radio channels.