Pulling Together
As we were wrapping up this issue, the country was going through a tumultuous election in the midst of a pandemic. Our November-December issue typically…
Raise the Roof
A Green Future
The cover story of this issue is titled “Roofing for the Green Future.” The article documents the design and construction of The Kendeda Building for…
Pieces of History
A home built in 1879. A hotel built in 1902. An industrial site that produced destroyers during World War II. What do these sites have…
Interesting Times
“Stay safe.” “Take care.” “Hope you are healthy and safe.” Work correspondence has taken on a different tone in the last couple of months as…
What’s New?
Photo: International Roofing Expo There’s a running joke I have with a couple of other trade journalists about how the most common sentence uttered at…
Everything’s Bigger in Texas
This issue spotlights hospitality and entertainment projects, so when Susan Miller of 5MetaCom contacted me about a story on the new Dickies Arena in Fort…
Inside, Outside
I was first introduced to Malinowski’s hierarchy of needs in college during an introduction to sociology class. I must admit, I wasn’t paying very close…
Seeing the Light
Nobody’s perfect. We all make mistakes. What hurts the most is when we miss an obvious solution to a problem — when we look back…
Bedside Manner
About a decade ago I had to find a new doctor. While researching doctors on the internet, I stumbled onto to a bunch of articles…
A Little Piece of the Planet
There was an old TV commercial for one of the Big Box stores that really hit me. It was an ad selling garden tools and…