Expert Drywall of Redmond, Wash., is one of this year’s Northwest Wall & Ceiling Bureau’s award winners for its work on the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (the charitable organization founded by the creator of the Microsoft Corporation) Iris Campus in Seattle.

For the most part, houses are largely made of wood and have been since life in caves fell out of style. It’s a versatile, reliable and plentiful construction material.

The promotional literature on Goldfarb Properties’ apartments at 920 Riverside Drive reads like a J. Peterman catalog entry, “…Aim Higher in Upper Manhattan’s Gorgeous Washington Heights Neighborhood. 920 Riverside Drive offers Large, One to Three Bedroom Apartments, Many with Spectacular Views of the Majestic Hudson River and The George Washington Bridge.”

Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana in the last days of August 2005, carving a gouge into the Gulf Coast which, nearly six years on, still hasn’t been healed. Thousands of New Orleans residents are still living in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers both inside and outside the state

Not all television is created equal. There are reality shows centered around human degradation where people lie, cheat, steal and eat disgusting things for the honor of being the last one standing.

Professio by Matt Henson (which specializes in ornamental, flat plaster and decorative finish restoration on historic buildings) worked with Woodpartners of Houston to repair water damage to the Texas and Pacific Train Station in Fort Worth, Texas.

If the heart of the environmental movement is conservation and recycling, recent projects undertaken by Duke Energy and its partners should have green activists thrilled to their core.