The Alpha Chi Sigma fraternity faced a catastrophe when an original decorative plaster ceiling was destroyed by a leaky bathtub. This unit, on the second floor of the fraternity house in Ann Arbor, Mich., lacked a 35-cent washer.
As indicators suggest another year before housing starts
rebound, has the remodeling market seen a spike in activity? The walls and
ceilings community seems divided on the answer.
After reading the article “The Habituals” (Walls & Ceilings, Sept. 2005) about the Jimmy Carter Work Project in Detroit that W&C and other BNP Media sister publications were involved in, Joseph Lyman, the Insulating Concrete Form Association’s executive director, wanted to show metro Detroit another kind of construction project. This one would be a Habitat home utilizing a very unique design, one that incorporated ICFs for the foundation and above-grade floors, structural insulated panels for the roof and gable and an acrylic finish for the exterior.
The annual STUD U, a program that commences just before the METALCON trade show opens each year, began Saturday, Sept. 30., in Tampa. Assembled in various conference rooms within the convention center, the Steel Framing Alliance’s Marybeth Ruzzito and Nadir Elhajj welcomed the class of 31 individuals who came to learn more about cold-formed steel. Some from as far as Brazil to New Zealand to Fiji hadn’t worked with metal framing and came to understand more about the system and its functions.
What happened in Las
Vegas couldn’t have stayed there, it had to be brought
back home. I have just returned from STAFDA, which was held in the gamblin’
town. This being the show for all things fasteners, I couldn''t help but think
of hanging board, which led me to thoughts on finishing, and then wondering
what could really be thought up next to help quality and production. I did see
a number of new products that got me excited, which will be listed in The
Toolbox within the next couple months.
This feature article is a case study of a project in the Seattle area where a condominium project was slated to be built out of wood framing members but was switched to steel framing in the final stages of design.
The folklore of French Lick, Ind., is that there was a charter train that stopped in front of French Lick Springs Hotel, with its tracks halting right at the hotel bar.
I have just returned from four very hot days in Rancho Mirage, Calif., where I attended the Northwest Wall & Ceiling Bureau's Annual Convention. The NWCB's staff-Bob, Mark, Tiina and Angela-really put on a great show in terms of scheduling and production for the 613 attendees. Although they have help from the sponsors, it really comes down to their hard work to put on a great show. Those contractors in the northwest are lucky to have a bureau such as them.
"I was surprised how well that thing ran," says Sandor Szilagyi, Troy Metal Concept's main finisher, remarking on the management of last year's Habitat for Humanity project in Detroit. Most of the area drywall contractors in southeast Michigan contributed to this project. Wixom, Mich.'s, Troy Metal was there for two days rocking and taping for the Jimmy Carter Blitz Build. Since the Habitat project, the company has been working at the Beaumont Hospital Macomb Ambulatory Care Center.
