Archives for the 'General' Category
Dual Glazing Fisticuffs
This story sort of speaks for itself. In the UK, home improvement salesman do not appreciate soliciting multiple quotes.
“A double glazing salesman launched a violent assault on a customer moments after discovering they had spoken to a rival company, a court was told yesterday.”
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25 October 2007 | Construction, Construction and Law, General | Comments Off
Caveat Emptor: Collapsible Ladders Are Dangerous
OK folks, these things are dangerous. We have seen these collapsible/folding ladders before on inspections. Some are better than others at promoting self injury and property destruction. Choose wisely.
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18 October 2007 | Construction Defect, Consulting, Experts, General, Inspections | Comments Off
Tools, tools and more tools!
We’re catching up on some stories that have been circulating around the internet. In this post we’ll tackle some of the hot new products in the world of tools.
At the top of this year’s holiday wish list for anyone in the construction defect investigation business is the Rigid SeeSnake micro Inspection Camera. This would almost [...]
8 October 2007 | Construction, General, Inspections | Comments Off
Bay Bridge Deck Replacement Time-Lapse Photography
A section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge’s upper deck was replaced in one large operation over the Labor Day weekend. This is truly an amazing engineering feat. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission that oversees the project captured the event using time-lapse photography and posted it on their site. Below is a screenshot:
“So smooth, it was [...]
18 September 2007 | Construction, General, Photography | Comments Off
Wozniak’s New Goal is Efficient Housing
Some of our readers may not be familiar with Steve Wozniak. “Woz”, as he is affectionately referred to, together with Steve Jobs, basically invented the personal computer in the form of a computer company known as Apple Computer in a garage in 1976. Wozniak has since gone on to support various educational and human interest [...]
21 August 2007 | Business, Construction, General, Green Building | Comments Off
Standard Pacific Shares Hit 7-Year Low
Shares of Standard Pacific Corp. plunged to a nearly seven-year low Monday on growing concerns that the homebuilder won’t be able to cover its debt.
The stock of the Irvine, Calif., company tumbled $2.28, or 18.7 percent, to $9.91 in afternoon trading. Earlier in the session, shares plummeted to $7.51, a level not seen since the [...]
8 August 2007 | Business, Construction, General | Comments Off
Drywall Maker in Pain as Housing Suffers
Many in the construction industry have struggled as the housing market has slowed dramatically in recent times.
But few have felt it as forcefully or as suddenly as the USG Corporation, the nation’s largest maker of drywall, the paper-wrapped plaster boards used to build walls in homes and offices.
USG, based here in Chicago, is in some [...]
7 August 2007 | Business, Construction, General | Comments Off
Developer moves, renovates historic farmhouse
This is very interesting and quite divergent from the normal method of operation for developers following land acquisition:
The soul of the American Folk farmhouse is at least 110 years old, but much of the structure itself isn’t a day over six months.
National builder Shea Homes moved and restored the historic Hudson-Schutte farmhouse on Escondido’s east [...]
1 August 2007 | Construction, General | Comments Off
Ryland Sees No Market Improvement
Ryland’s net sales also fell 17 percent year over year in the second quarter, from 3,023 in 2006 to 2,521 this year. Compared to the first quarter of 2007, sales were down most in Texas, and off in the Southeast and North, but Ryland’s sales in the West were actually up 7 percent, Dreier said.
“Sales [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, Construction, General | Comments Off
D.R. Horton posts quarterly loss after charges
Another builder is having trouble…
D.R. Horton Inc, the largest U.S. home builder, on Thursday reported its first quarterly loss as a public company after taking more than $1 billion of charges, chiefly related to the lower value of land and other assets.
For its fiscal third quarter, ended June 30, D.R. Horton posted a loss of [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, Construction, General | Comments Off
