What's VVAS doing during the COVID-19 pandemic? We're writing specs, that's what! As a business owner, it's my job to keep my team safe,...

I hear from the Instagram grapevine that today is a day for celebrating 25 years of the ADA. So it's the perfect day for a quick post...

We all expect natural materials to vary in color, pattern, and texture. Concrete, too, and other things that are, let's face it, made of...

There will always be a role for someone with a knack for organizing verbal information in design and construction work.

For most projects, a paint that claims "zero-VOC" is equal in quality and compliance to one that claims "less than 50 g/L VOC."

In honor of the NHL Stanley Cup finals, and because it's been a while since I posted, I thought I'd give you an update to my...

Is this naïve design gone wrong... or a clever demonstration of concrete's need to shrink as it cures?

We technical designers make a sport of bemoaning the cluelessness of aesthetic designers. My colleague Louis Medcalf tweeted a common...

Perhaps I did have an inkling that Anderson Todd was important during my years at Rice. I spent some time at my dad's house this week...