New Pod, Jobsites, Careers, and the "Deathstar"

The 10^th episode of the From the Fabricator podcast is now out!  This one features guests that aren’t usually in the typical industry spotlight, but they all have some great messages and insights to share.  I start off with Gantt and Woody Miller of Winco Window.  Company is more than 100 years old and it’s in a constant state of growth and innovation. Was a fun dive into where they came from and where they are going!  Next was Emily Yukish of Specified Systems.  You know me I am determined to spotlight more of our younger stars in this industry and Emily fits that bill.  Emily is doing it the right way and Specified is an impressive operation.  Last, I chat with Ron Parker.  Ron is the best independent operations guru in our industry.  His takes on safety, systems and structure were an absolute masterclass.  Every fabrication plant could gain from Ron’s insights.  So 10 episodes are in the books now and I feel like each month I/we gain knowledge and growth from these guests.  More good things to come here, so thank you again for supporting this effort.  It is valued and appreciated!

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Elsewhere…

 

--  You are seeing it quite a bit online and, in the trades, but this month is Careers in Construction Month.  I think all of us pushing this is more crucial than ever. We have all seen that it’s gotten even harder to attract folks to our awesome world, so time for those of us in it to step up and help this cause.  As a part of this effort, Glass Magazine asked for Glaziers to send in your selfies on the job- they’ll take pictures and/or video.  See this link for more and these will be featured on all of the powerful platforms of Glass Magazine and the National Glass Association.  If you are reading this and you’re not in the field, ask your teammates to do it- let’s grow our world and show it off!!

 

--  In addition, Jenni Chase of the NGA had a great personal take on all of this and what else you can do to get involved.

 

--  Had to laugh on this one… new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures is open and it seriously looks like the Deathstar from Star Wars.  It’s a heck of a design but being tagged “deathstar” is probably not making people very happy. Regardless this story gives a deep review of this project along with some of the frustrations with its mission.  Good read.

 

--  Last this week… I was lucky enough to accompany Brian Thomas of Super Sky and Joe Lucchese of JML Architectural Products on a couple of project site visits in Detroit recently.  That was a tremendous experience, first on-site visits for me in a long time.  When these projects are done, they will be stunners for sure.   I have noted on here previously that Super Sky always blows me away, so seeing their product as it was being installed gave me even more appreciation.  It was also neat to see Detroit working to build up parts of its city and also cool to see Viracon and Quaker Window products being installed along the way on these jobs.  Looking good folks!  And I must add that it was great to get to know Joe- I love seeing high quality manufacturers reps deeply involved and engaged in the nitty gritty out there.  Good stuff!

 

LINKS of the WEEK

--  Love seeing these good sportsmanship stories!

 

--  Have you seen the “Pandora Papers” coverage yet?  Very interesting on the rich and powerful evading taxes and making money in some not so ethical ways.

--  There has to be more to this story on a bad home build. Way too many hoops that we all have to jump through for this to happen.

 

PROJECT of the WEEK

From the feed of BEES or Building Envelope Erection Services.  This is on the campus of North Carolina A & T.  I liked this one for a bunch of reasons.  It is a beautiful job that shows off the greatness of our products. But I really liked the way that BEES threw out props to all of the collaborators on this project.  Of course, seeing my friends from Clover Architectural noted caught my eye first but then the list went on and featured industry stalwarts like Charlotte Glass Contractors, Kawneer, Press Glass, and Pecora.  Congrats to all of you on a job well done as well as props to Balfour Beatty, Triumph Engineering and the tremendous design from EYP.  Great work!!