by Austin Houser
Every commercial painting business needs a steady stream of high-quality leads to be ...
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by Emily Newton
Construction materials have become increasingly harder and more expensive to obtain. ...
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by Austin Houser
One of the most important aspects of marketing for your painting business is audience...
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by Austin Houser
As a painting contractor, you may have mistaken your business for a painting company....
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
Purchasing for construction projects isn’t like purchasing in our personal lives. Whe...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
I sat through a pre-construction meeting via conference call today to go over the ins...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
Recently, I was preparing a masonry architectural specification section for a remodel...
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by Industry Professionals
Significant First Amendment rights are at risk in a recent California Court of Appeal...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
While hosting a Let’s Fix Construction workshop at the 2018 AIA Conference in New Yor...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you’re probably aware of the growing i...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
In the last few years, it has been proposed that owners might benefit from hiring spe...
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by Robert Ikenberry
As anyone who works in construction knows, projects are built on cooperation, even th...
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by Robert J. Kobet, AIA
Preserving and repurposing existing buildings is supported by most current green buil...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
Although it didn't seem like it at the time, one of the best parts of my CSI chapter'...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
When architects begin with the design concept as the primary driver, or if they have ...
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by Jill M. Speegle
Color experts have long said the colors we paint our walls can affect our psyche and ...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
In my humble opinion, the best way to fix something is to learn what you don’t know. ...
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by Bob Bailey, AIA, CCS
With the increased use of delegated design in construction projects, questions have a...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
Are you communicating with your specifier during construction administration? Are you...
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by Warren Brand
It’s called The New Safe Confinement (NSC). Picture a massive, movable hangar-like do...
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by Warren Brand
It brought down both Space Shuttles, is responsible for the disaster at Deepwater Hor...
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by Letsfixconstruction.com
Our biggest challenge comes from working in a bubble. It comes from only seeing thing...
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by Barbara Jacobs
That’s the question, and it applies to both interiors and exteriors of homes and othe...
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by V.C. "Bud" Jenkins
I was at a client’s store last week when a painting crew of five young workers came i...
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by Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.
Roofs fail prematurely or fail to reach their rated life of approximately 20 years fo...
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by Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.
An assessment of a concrete structure to evaluate existing conditions and determine c...
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by Bob Bailey, AIA, CCS
For those of you who frequently write construction specifications, the time will come...
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by Bob Bailey, AIA, CCS
Many construction projects are rife with potentially overlapping trade responsibiliti...
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by Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc.
This first blog written by Logan Cook of Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates Inc. includ...
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by FMI
Now is the time to start incorporating a millennial-focused recruitment strategy for ...
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by Jill M. Speegle
British architects say they are fed up with “tiny rabbit-hutch homes,” with the relea...
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by Robert Ikenberry
In the works since 1980, federal OSHA recently published new construction-specific co...
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by Jill M. Speegle
Here’s a farmhouse with a modern twist, seriously. Twist Farmhouse, in Falls, PA, was...
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by Warren Brand
In coatings, as in every other profession, you can go by the book or you can go with ...
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by Warren Brand
It takes an enormous amount to get under my skin. But I just attended a conference fo...
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by Robert Ikenberry
Americans are great innovators. We develop the coolest technological toys. From perso...
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by FMI
No one wants to be called a salesperson—regardless of their position in the company. ...
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by Jill M. Speegle
A revamped Art Deco movie theater on Long Island is basking in the glow of an award f...
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by FMI
In today’s market, many contractors assume that there are no longer opportunities to ...
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by FMI
Today’s business environment is very different from six years ago, when the pace of e...
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by FMI
Few industries require the use of contracts more than construction.
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by Warren Brand
Over 30 years in the industry, I’ve been on most sides of many paint issues. I’ve own...
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by FMI
As the construction industry rebounds with the growing economy, the search for talent...
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by Michael Halliwell
Any time that one is working bridge rehabilitation, there are certain hazards that sh...
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by Robert J. Kobet, AIA
I am fortunate to have practiced internationally throughout my career in sustainable ...
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by Jill M. Speegle
A rare home designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright will be getting a new zip ...
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by FMI
Any principal of a construction firm will tell you that cash is king. There is little...
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by Jill M. Speegle
It’s airy, yet enclosed. Love it or hate it, the recently unveiled, HKS-designed Minn...
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by Karen Kapsanis
I have been trying to write this little essay for weeks, but I keep getting interrupt...
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by Robert Ikenberry
Construction is one of the last industries to embrace technology—or so it seems. If s...
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by Simon Hope
One of the eternal problems that our industry grapples with is defining the differenc...
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by Robert Ikenberry
Which would you notice first? Money missing from your Social Security check, or a pat...
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by Jill M. Speegle
Historic buildings that house volumes of literary marvels deserve to be preserved and...
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by Robert Ikenberry
I’m often amazed when I watch other contractors interact with owners.
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by Pamela Simmons
Let’s face it. Pennies have become pretty much useless as currency. Banks don’t seem ...
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by Jill M. Speegle
Hold the explosives! A Nevada state judge has put the kibosh on plans to implode a st...
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by Karen Kapsanis
Maybe you’ve had this experience, too: I have a hard time forgetting accidents that h...
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by Burt Olhiser
In accordance with our title, this column is a “Like It Is” effort to present common-...
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by Tim Race
In 1973, I was playing baseball for Parkside High School Eagles with Tony Dungy. That...
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by Karen Kapsanis
I really don’t like leap years, mainly because they are the years when the campaign f...
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by Jill M. Speegle
So long, cubicles! Hello, hackable buildings and b(Hives)! The high-performance offic...
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by Pamela Simmons
Sometimes you have to stop thinking about painting and just paint. On Sunday, Septemb...
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by Burt Olhiser
As discussed in the first installment of this two-part article (Durability + Design, ...
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by Burt Olhiser
This is the first in what will be an ongoing series of columns in Durability + Des...
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by Pamela Simmons
In her book, Margaret Henderson Floyd explores deeply the projects of these influenti...
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by Pamela Simmons
Along Fifth Avenue in Pittsburgh’s fashionable Shadyside area, sits a somewhat plain ...
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by Karen Kapsanis
I recently heard that some owners change a contract by replacing an “SSPC-certified c...
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by Pamela Simmons
Growing up in Western Pennsylvania, my family rarely took a trip when I didn’t spy at...
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by Burt Olhiser
The recent endless whining and posturing by our political “leadership” on one side of...
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by Burt Olhiser
My musings this month have to do with the reasons we turn down work.
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by Burt Olhiser
I recently had occasion to become one of the wandering lost souls in a Big-Box DIY st...
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