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Want to Trade?
Who would have thought that accepting the opportunity six years ago to blog about the trades for Traditional Building would have led to so many intriguing conversations with readers with such varied...
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William Blake Cut Sharp Marriage Marks
I like how Rudy refers to the circuitous route by which trades tend to get to where they are though I would want, for cultural reasons, to flip this perception on its head. I have usually known pretty...
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Ken Follett: How to Survive Your Work Environment
It has been suggested that we add a bit of how-to into our discussion, or maybe talk about upcoming events. On the upcoming events thread we have been way too busy this season to think much about...
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Sand and Cement
One of my earliest memories was crouching down next to a cobblestone retaining wall and inspecting the mortar. Then my playmate, we will call him not-Rudy for convenience, from above on the retaining...
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Falling Forward, Standing Back
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Expectations Temporary
Drawing on his experience, Ken Follett shows how a client’s expectations can drastically change a historic preservation project. In our work I often find that the most difficult task is to understand...
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Schedule of Values and Traditional Craftiness
Recently I had one of those conversations wherein I realized that a few things about project management that appear to me to be quite obvious may not be so obvious, and that the person I am working...
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Quackery and the SDS (formerly known as MSDS)
What interests me here is a recent online conversation in which a few individuals were trying to make comparisons through the chemical nomenclature found on Safety Data Sheets to sort out differences...
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