Commercial Maintenance
By Tom McNall
OK, so you’ve secured a commercial maintenance contract with thousands of square feet of stone. Now what do you do?
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Get The Picture?
By Mark Lauzon
As our stone-fabrication company began to grow, one of the most-important and profitable things we did was to start taking photographs of our jobs. In not all that many years, I’ve shot literally thousands of images.
Walnut Creek Veterans Memorial Plaza, Walnut Creek, Calif.
By K. Schipper
WALNUT CREEK, Calif. – Say one thing for the people of this Bay Area city: When they proposed combining new landscaping at city hall with a public art requirement and the community’s desire for a memorial to local veterans, it showed optimism.
Marble Concepts LLC, Philadelphia
By K. Schipper
PHILADELPHIA — John DiDonato is a problem-solver. He believes life isn’t going to hand you a day without problems, but a happy day is where you learn something and then succeed in solving them.
Picture This
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
Unless you’re running a real bucket-shop operation, you’re proud of your work. So why are you hiding it?
Stone+Tec 2005: Steady Surprise?
By Emerson Schwartzkopf NUREMBERG, Germany – At Stone+tec 2005 in late May, many exhibitors grumbled not-so-quietly about the Chinese invasion. What they didn’t notice was the Italian withdrawal. The four-day biennial event certainly held...
CarraraMarmotec 2005 Holds Its Own
CARRARA, Italy – Considering current trade-show competition and its own downward trend of attendance in recent years, CarraraMarmotec made an admirable showing in 2005 with a virtual repeat of last year’s performance. The twenty-sixth...
Strong Euro, Weak Europe?
By Emerson Schwartzkopf
Jan. 1, 2000: €1 =US $1.01
When the annual odometer turned over to The Big Two-Thousand, things look positively rosy in Europe. No more divided Germany. Former border outposts and customs houses literally going to seed. Commerce moving in all directions.
Municipal Building, Beachwood, Ohio
By K. Schipper
BEACHWOOD, Ohio — It’s not unusual for a government to run out of room, but this city also found itself with another problem: its municipal building seemed to lack the dignity taxpayers often expect for their investment.
Aspen Countertops, Salt Lake City
By K. Schipper
SALT LAKE CITY – High school buddies Matt Pearson and Clark Taylor didn’t start out their working lives planning to be countertop mavens of the Wasatch Front.