A satisfied customer is a good thing. It generally means the client felt they received fair value for goods and services, but will they be loyal? While a satisfied customer is good, it is loyalty you really want. Customer loyalty can keep you in business through tough times.
You’ve spent a restless
night in a hotel because the guy next door decided to stumble back into his
room at 3 a.m. and fell asleep with the TV blaring. Your company has moved into
a new office building, and all you can hear is your colleague in the next room
on a conference call with a client.
A column is a vertical building element that provides structural support by carrying a load in compression. Columns, one of the oldest designed structural elements, were used by the Greeks and Romans to construct massive temples and bridges.
The Carpenters Union has been holding competitions around the country to find the fastest the drywall hanger in North America. On May 5, the stage was set in Las Vegas at the International Training Center, where it would be settled and what a stage it was.
One of my favorite aspects
of the EIFS consulting business is working with new products and markets. There
seems to be an unending stream of innovations in the EIFS business, including
the proverbial next-generation EIFS design and challenging new markets.
Hiring new employees is not something many of you had to concern yourselves with for the last couple of years. Most of you have been busier with the nasty task of laying off people for whom there was not enough work.
Both LEED and Green Globes
address building material greenness with regard to where products are
fabricated and where the raw ingredients for these products originated.
Construction has changed. Today, we have building scientists, LEED experts, envelope consultants and next will be energy consultants. There are consultants for everything and if you think it will get easier for you in the future, I seriously doubt it.
Gypsum
board systems can either be non-rated or rated for fire, sound, or shear
resistance. The joint tolerances in gypsum board systems rated for fire, sound,
or shear resistance need to be tighter than the joint tolerances in non-rated
systems. In total, higher levels of expected performance require higher levels
of precision in construction.
If
you spend any time working with specifiers, end-users, designers and
contractors who are involved with EIFS, you’ll find out right away that the
environmental friendliness (“eco-friendliness”) of EIFS is a hot topic.
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