Next week the annual national AIA show takes place in Boston and it should be interesting to hear how everyone feels up there. Will it be like the Builders Show with the feeling of dread or will it be more upbeat? The ABI has been trending down, but projects are still rolling, including some major monumental work, so who knows. No doubt this event and the feeling on the floor should tell us a lot about where we are all going.
Elsewhere….
-- BIM has become so hot that we had a Time & Newsweek moment in our industry. BIM is on the cover of USGlass and Glass Magazine… so I would say this is pretty darn hot eh?
-- Some NFRC notes… feel free to skip down if you could care less… they announced that they will select a “NFRC Member of the Year” Seriously…. That’s pure unintentional comedy right there… but you know that for sure the winner will be a manufacturer, probably one that does some commercial, so they can show how “they work with everyone” even though that’s a bunch of hooey. My bet is on TRACO which for some reason has unbelievably supported/pushed for these programs… for the life of me I’ll never understand why. Especially since they have some very good people- I just don’t get their logic. I wonder how they’ll spin it if the program takes off (which is still doubtful really) and their customers have to pay through their ears and go through numerous nightmare steps to get things done. I sure as heck wouldn’t want to be known as one of the people who actually “wanted” this.
-- Also in the latest NFRC propaganda newsletter, a long editorial from current chair Joe Hayden on why “No” is sometimes the answer. He basically says that even though the entire organization can vote against something… keep voting against it at every stop… see votes that are like 48 to 6… that “no” sometimes is the answer. So that’s all good except that the NFRC also wants to try and play that it works with the consensus. You can’t have it both ways. And believe me NFRC is the furthest thing from a consensus organization out there. But somewhere out there NFRC is trying to convince people it does actually listen....
-- Last, in this latest little newsletter I think they mentioned that they were a 501c3 about 100 times… we get it guys… seriously we do... amazing how that designation means you can basically try and run roughshod over an industry… I think with how many times they note it, maybe the NFRC is trying to win the IRS Member of the Year award...
Sorry too much NFRC for me too… but it is.. what it is….
From the LINKS this week…
-- Oh and one more thing… check out this article on conflict of interest at NASA… does it sound like anyone we know? Hmmmmmm Thanks to Mike for the link. Gee wish the Inspector General would come visit me someday.
-- Fun article on celebrities who talk green but do not follow through with it in life…
-- Another story… on the weakening of Vegas and their economy… what’s comical is no one has told Vegas… Even with all the evidence presented in this article, there’s no way these people would be building like crazy if the outlook was dire…
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