Live Beautifully: Why Historic Buildings Have Texture You Just Can’t Buy
How do you live beautifully? Everyone has different inspirations and details that make their approach to design, life, and beauty uniquely theirs. A single color or architectural element can...
How AEC is Preparing for a Digital Future
Construct AEC Education and Expo recently concluded its 2019 event in National Harbor, Maryland after four days of learning and networking. Architects, designers, and construction professionals all had the...
Preserving Charleston Homes, One Wool Insulation at a Time
The New York Times recently wrote about an architecture critic's quest to bring alive the story of South Carolina's historic homes and real estate in the face of booming...
Element Sessions: Using Texture to Guide Design
Sight, scent, sound, taste, and touch: Of the five senses, we often overlook the powerful effects of touch. But at California Closets, the design team is putting texture at...
Live Beautifully: Every Corporate Interior Should Have Its Own DNA
On this episode of Live Beautifully, a HanStone Quartz podcast, host Daniel Litwin sat down with Joyce Fownes, principal, office director, and interior studio lead for Corgan. In her 40...
Live Beautifully: Designing Inspirational Homes With the Homeowner in Mind
In the age of Instagram and Pinterest, everyone fancies themselves as an interior designer. Though these digital media outlets are certainly ripe with visual inspiration, professional interior designers take...
Watson Career Opportunity: Transforming Tech in the Workplace as a Sales Account Manager
On this Architecture & Design Jobcast, brought to you by MarketScale, we sat down with Jessica Reiks of Watson, a furniture manufacturer creating user-centered, tech-ready, and future proof consoles,...
What Lies In Your Walls? Exploring the Healthy Alternative to Fiberglass Insulation
Today’s consumers are more and more concerned with their health and the health of the planet, and their buying choices reflect these holistic values. Construction materials, like insulation, are...
Communicating a Green Insulation Responsibility to Customers
As consumers develop an interest in healthy, high-performance building products, coarse wool products such as Havelock Wool are becoming the gold standard for a truly green insulation product. Today on...
Window Shades Create More Comfortable and Productive Workplaces
Summertime is primetime for the construction industry, but those summer temperatures and bright sunlight serve as visible reminders for how important solar control products are for buildings and their...
Metrocon 2019: Setting a Standard for Building Health and Wellness
Increasingly, buildings have adapted to the personalities of the businesses that inhabit them. Flexibility in the workplace has changed corporate functionality, but also brought about new challenges. Not only are...
Element Sessions: Which interzum 2019 Trends Will Head Across the Pond?
There is always a new interior design trend around the corner. Some designs last through the ages, while others fade away as fads; today we explore the ones that...
The Case for Maximalism in Home Design
Minimalism in home design has been all the rage for decades, and there’s no dearth of home renovation cable TV shows encouraging a simplistic lifestyle. But on this week’s...
From Dirt to Dishes in Record Time
When a restaurant group or retail chain wants to build a series of new locations, how do they go about securing the properties and completing the construction? There are...
Metrocon 2019: Quality Lighting Design Makes for Better Employees
Lighting control has come a long way over the years. While many still associate the term ‘control’ with the ability to dim fixtures to a custom level, the industry...
Metrocon 2019: The Design Behind Privacy
Architects and designers can play a large role in the functionality and workflow of an office. In today’s environment of co-working, open floor plans and remote work, no two...
The One Thing You Need to Know Before Remodeling a Kitchen or Bath
Kitchens and bathrooms have long held a public appeal for their innate cleanliness, crispness, and sense of order. But more than that, these spaces are where we live our...
Element Sessions: Answering the Age-Old Question of What is Contemporary Design
How do you nail down the definition of contemporary? Ask an expert like Suzanne DeRusha, president of Suzanne Kimberly Design. In this episode of Element Sessions, an Element Designs...
Element Sessions: Software is Transforming Every Step of Design for the Better
Technology has changed the way products work and look, but what is often overlooked is the technology that puts these products in front of a buying audience. For the woodworking,...
The Fourth Revolution: Is Industry 4.0 Changing Manufacturers’ Skill Sets for the Better?
In this episode of The Fourth Revolution by Bartell, Pettibone President and CEO Barbara Philibert went into detail on that, when it comes to Industry 4.0, the key to optimizing...
Walker Zanger – One Stop Shop
Walker Zanger is a rich source for both trade professionals and homeowners searching for the right design style for their vision. With 13 curated showrooms and slab galleries and...
The Discussion on Sustainable Materials Is Shifting (Slowly But Surely)
Over time, consumers become more familiar with the vast options for high-quality, sustainable building materials, but how is the conversation coming along on an industry-wide level? On this episode...
Building a Better Bond: The Power of a Chaplaincy Program for a Faith-based Company
Many companies are designed with values and virtues in mind. Fibrebond, a leader in the manufacturing of mission critical structures, is no different, considering itself built on a firm...
NN Inc. Job Opportunity: Learning From the Very Best as a Tool Maker Apprentice
All areas of manufacturing are feeling the same strain. With an aging workforce and younger generations moving away from these types of jobs, there is a looming labor shortage...