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Nov 2024

Hands on Training and Education: Build With Strength 2.0, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Vendor News , , Frank Gordon

Event Description: Build with Strength is partnering with Habitat for Humanity International and the Insulating Concrete Forms Manufacturers Association to fortify decent, affordable and sustainable housing across the U.S. This initiative will help to provide incredibly strong and sustainable homes for dozens of Habitat Partner Families over the course of several years. This build in Santa Fe, NM includes two houses being built side by side. Alongside construction, the NRMCA and partner ICF supplier BuildBlock will be hosting on-site training events and hard hat tours for anyone interested in learning about the benefits of building residential homes with ICFs. This...

24
May 2024

Snow Melt

Vendor News , , , , Cliff Shumate

I am an electric heat distributor with products from 3 manufacturers available and am interested in adding electric floor heat, snow and ice melt and ice dam prevention products to the projects being built. These are obviously luxury items and items that make hotels, commercial buildings and residences more comfortable and safer to access. IE… tile floors, parking garage entrances, north facing building entrances, roofs over hanging walkways subject to icicle hazards. Tile is a cold but durable and easy to clean product. It is specified in many hotels, commercial buildings and residences. It is always better warm! Adding this...

31
Jan 2024

Metropolitan Floored the Interior Design Show (IDS)

Vendor News , , National Accounts

The annual Interior Design Show (IDS), held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, returned last week, wrapping on Sunday, January 21, after a four-day run. The show featured hundreds of exhibitors, including Metropolitan Floors. The event saw an impressive turnout, with dealers, distributors, architects and design professionals in attendance. For Metropolitan, IDS has been a long-standing tradition. “We’ve been attending IDS for many years,” said Wilf Selfe, vice president, of Eastern Canada, at Metropolitan Floors. “The audience this show brings with architects, builders, and designers is unparalleled. We hope to continue to foster closer relationships with the A&D community, closer...

30
Jan 2024

Hospitality Update: Growth in Demand, Wellness, and Sustainability

Vendor News , , , Craig Watts

The state of the hospitality industry—and the trends to watch—are discussed with IMEG Director of Hospitality Bob Winter in the first in a series of episodes featuring the firm’s market leaders. “Last year, 2022, was a tremendous year in the market for design and construction,” Bob says, citing the recovery of occupancy rates as the industry emerged from the pandemic. “I have seen a little bit of a headwind this year with some of our projects due to the cost of construction and the cost of money.” However, he adds, there are still a lot of “pent-up opportunities that are...

04
May 2023

Blown Design

Vendor News , , Curtis Neuschaefer

Blown Design is a unique custom glass lighting company. Our Art Director, Martin Lukacka, is a former baseball player for the Slovakian national team and an Architect living in Prague. Our Head of Production, Andrej Gulyas, is the proud Dad of two young boys and leads our Workshop in northern Czech. Curtis Neuschaefer, our Blown Director, is a Florida snowbird who spends half the year in Prague and winters by the beach. Brought together by Crystal Glass (and Zoom!), this fusion has been a team for 8+ years, perfecting bespoke lighting in Europe, USA & South America. Our greater production...

20
Mar 2023

Mauritshuis Museum x LaToya Jones’ “Girl with a Pearl”

Vendor News , La Toya Jones

She won!!! “My Girl with a Pearl” will be featured at the astounding Mauritshuis Museum near Amsterdam in the Royal Vermeer room. Home of the original “Girl with a Pearl” painted by Johannes Vermeer dated 1665. The Hague, Netherlands. The Mauritshuis Museum announced their Ode to the “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Johanne (Jan) Vermeer. The museum has selected a few artist from around the world to showcase artist’ depictions of the “Girl with a Pearl Earring.” Over 3500 creations were submitted, less than 200 were selected. The museum also houses the most prominent paintings by Johanne (Jan) Vermeer,...

14
Jul 2022

Francisco Matte, regional director of Crystal Lagoons: “PAL™ project to bring beach life to Madrid

Vendor News , , , , Sales US

Although Madrid, the second most populous city in the European Union, is recognized as a major tourist hub for its diverse gastronomic and cultural heritage, the city has no beach life. That until now, because on the outskirts of that city, Crystal Lagoons will build Alovera Beach, its first Public Access Lagoons™ project on the Iberian Peninsula. Elsewhere in Europe the company is already developing PAL™ projects in the Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Turkey, as well as having already developed two real estate complexes in Spain (Costa del Sol and Murcia). What are the main characteristics of this...

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