AWCI’s Excellence in Construction Innovation Award
| By AWCI’s Excellence in Construction Innovation Award was created last year to recognizes products, services, materials, technologies or systems that improve the means and methods utilized in the wall and ceiling industry. This year, the first time... | [more]
AWCI’s Excellence in Construction Quality Award
| By Based on its reputation for top quality construction, AWCI member Ronsco, Inc. was chosen for this job for CA Technologies, one of the world’s largest independent computer software companies.
Aiming for LEED Silver, this high-end conference... | [more]
AWCI’s Excellence in Construction Safety Award
| By This year’s winner of AWCI’s Excellence in Construction Safety Award for companies with more than 300,000 annual man hours is Baker Drywall, Ltd. in Mesquite, Texas.
Baker Drywall believes "safety is our way of life.” In fact, safety is such... | [more]
AWCI’s Excellence in Construction safety Award
| By The 2013 winner of AWCI’s Excellence in Construction Safety Award for Companies with fewer than 300,000 annual man-hours is Raymond San Diego (California).
In a continued effort to achieve safety excellence, Raymond’s safety department... | [more]
AWCI's Convention + INTEX Expo 2013
| By With a 15 percent increase in the number of booths over the 2012 expo and a 20 percent increase in attendance since the Great Recession began, AWCI’s Convention & INTEX Expo, held March 18–22, 2013, in San Antonio, was deemed a success. Overall,... | [more]
AWCI's Pinnacle Award
| By W hen J. Patrick Boyd’s great-great grandparents got in their covered wagon in 1846 and ended up in Texas at around the time it became a state, they had no idea that their future generations would have such influence in the Texas construction... | [more]
AWCI’s Excellence in Construction Quality Award
| By The project: Build a 2.4 million square-foot campus for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the national security agency that helped locate Osama bin Laden. The project, should the AWCI member contractor Manganaro Midatlantic (based in... | [more]
Lawyering Up
| By Ulf Wolf I hate to be the one to break the news, but your mother lied to you about the Payment Fairy. Payment in full, and on time, does not show up under your pillow one fine morning.
Rather, payment in full and on time—as you have probably... | [more]
The End of Fierce Individual ism:
| By Bruce Piasecki Bruce Piasecki shares a blueprint of what a well-run team looks like and explains why, now more than ever, the power of teams should trump the appeal of the rugged individualist.
America loves a fierce individualist. And yes, there is... | [more]
» April 2013
Age and Safety Habits: Is There a Correlation?
| By Ulf Wolf When it comes to age and safety, the question is: Is there a correlation?
According to industry experts, the answer is yes. It appears that the risk of on-site accidents varies from age group to age group.
One industry consulting firm,... | [more]
» March 2013
Best Worst Excuse Contest 2013
| By Out of more than 220 entries, that’s the winning answer in our Best Worst Excuse (for not coming to work) Contest. The winning entry was submitted by Kim Yeaman, administrative Assistant at Stapp Construction in North Salt Lake, Utah.
By the... | [more]
Project Focus: Palomar Medical Center
| By Editor’s Note: Every year, the Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industry receives many fantastic project nominations for its Excellence in Construction Quality Award, but only one project can win in each category. This month we introduce you... | [more]
Tribute: Joseph Martin Baker Jr.
| By AWCI J oe Baker Jr., chief staff officer of the Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industry for 37 years (1955–1992), died Feb. 8, 2013, just two days shy of his 86th birthday.
Joe’s contributions to the industry and AWCI—even well before... | [more]
We Work as a Team
| By Mark L. Johnson Last year, we featured the voice of two architects. This year we have four. It’s perfect symmetry of details and confessions in our annual architect tell-all.
Two things ring out loud and clear with the interviews of architects and specifiers... | [more]
» February 2013
The GC Speaks—Are You Listening?
| By Mark L. Johnson Imagine you’re at an industry conference. There you see a seminar entitled, "The GC Speaks—Are You Listening?” Intrigued, you decide to attend. What do you suppose the speaker is going to say?
"My take is that general contractors are pushing... | [more]
The GC Speaks
| By Eric Cusick, LEED AP, and Skip Miyamoto You will find it difficult to walk very far in a DPR Construction office or jobsite trailer without seeing the phrase, "We Exist to Build Great Things.” This purpose statement appears on pencils, company vehicles, coffee mugs, notepads and is... | [more]
» January 2013
Get Out of the Line of Fire
| By Diane Kelly When looking to make your workplace safer for your employees, the logical place to start is with the main types of injuries that do occur: caught in, struck by, falls, electrocution and release of energy. All of these injury types can, often times,... | [more]
Project Focus: Condado Vanderbilt Hotel San Juan, Puerto Rico
| By Editor’s Note: Every year, the Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industry receives many fantastic project nominations for its Excellence in Construction Quality Award, but only one project can win in each category. This month we introduce you... | [more]
The Future of the Construction Industry
| By By Ulf Wolf We are not getting any younger.
And the day will come—sooner for some than others—when we have to hand over the reins of our company to … well, that’s the question, isn’t it?
If you own and operate your construction company, chances are... | [more]
Traditional Job Descriptions Don’t Attract Top Talent
| By Brad Remillard A recent research study identified the 10 biggest mistakes companies make when hiring. The study included over 130 companies ranging in size from Fortune 500 to mid-size privately held organizations, a wide variety of industries, and more than... | [more]
