Archives for the 'General' Category
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 | No Comments
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 | No Comments
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 | No Comments
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 | No Comments
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 | No Comments
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 | No Comments
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 | No Comments
Ahead of the Bell: Pulte Homes
Pulte Homes Inc. faces an uncertain future, analysts said Thursday, a day after the company said it swung to a second-quarter loss amid a struggling housing market.
After the bell Tuesday, Pulte reported a loss of $2.01 per share on $2.02 billion in revenue. Sales dropped 40 percent for the quarter, and the company took almost [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, Construction, General | No Comments
Inbox Zero from 43 Folders
Merlin Mann, a productivity expert of the highest caliber, and founder of the 43 Folders website, has a wonderful approach to dealing with the onslaught of email. Most professionals nowadays are faced with more than 100 email messages each day. Obviously spam factors into that count, but how many of us don’t spend more than [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, General, Technology | No Comments
Judge: Blood promise can’t be enforced
A Nietzsche-quoting judge said a promise penned in blood by a businessman was not an enforceable contract. Superior Court Judge Corey S. Cramin ruled Monday that Stephen Son could not be forced to repay Kim Jin-soo more than $140,000 that Kim provided to Son’s companies, not to Son himself.
Son punctured his finger and drafted the [...]
30 June 2007 | Business, General, Litigation | No Comments
