A bad bug bit my computer Tuesday, so in the 36 hours I was offline while our IT master Parker Byron wiped and restored, I cleaned up my office. Came upon a script I wrote for a podcast almost five years ago. It attempts to impart air barrier basics in a film-noir meets “Fantastic Voyage,” [...]
Archive for April, 2011
Brick and Block, Masonry Detectives
Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2011 |
Historic apartment building gets renewed lease — on life
Posted in Uncategorized on April 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I love working on stories like this one. It’s about a stately, historic building from the 1920s, left vacant since 1991, and brought back from the edge of ruin. Dalton Apartments, Gary, Ind., is actually two buildings joined by a common wall — the seven-story “Tower” (1928) and the three-story “Modern” (1926). Developer Harrington Properties, [...]
Testing the sandwich
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Some version of this sad-but-true story happens all the time. It’s happening somewhere, no doubt, right now. This one began in Seattle, in a 4-year-old, six-story, two-building apartment complex – about 70 units in each building, in 2007. A few residents reported tell-tale signs of water ingress around the windows. Stains appeared on the interior [...]
The role of manufacturers in sustainable design and construction
Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The president of our company, David W. Boyer, has penned this unvarnished look at the role of product manufacturers — including PROSOCO — in the journey toward ever-more sustainable design and construction. It seems an appropriate post to commemorate today’s one-year anniversary of the “Green Journey” blog. Thanks for visiting! The role of manufacturers in [...]
PROSOCO and CPAA spiff up ‘Rocketown’
Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Just a few blocks from the Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville’s non-profit “Rocketown” offers young people a drug- and alcohol-free venue that includes a concert hall, indoor skateboard park, and some really old concrete floors. The facility got pro bono help with the floors March 14-17, as two Craftsman -level accreditation courses taught by [...]
