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The recent Planning Design and Construction  Summit in Orlando, FL, brought together the American Society of Healthcare Engineers (ASHE) and the American Hospital Association (AHA) focusing on the theme of Where Top Industry Perspectives Converge.  Sustainability was one of many topics addressed during the conference.

Building Information Modeling, or BIM, is one of the more recent design tools architects use in their day-to-day work. 

Understand the design and documentation process of architects and designers helps building product manufactures get their products specified and sold.

Vinyl Institute’s Technical Director, Richard Krock, proposed a national standard for water main breaks as a way of curbing the tremendous losses in energy and resources hurting our nation’s water supply.

The way building product representatives manage their sales territories can have a big impact on productivity and success rate in getting specifications.  Here are a few suggestions I have found helpful.

he Vinyl Institute is working to counter this misinformation in the market and create holistic sources of information and tools for the vinyl industry and product consumers. Part of that strategy involves channeling our message through three websites that provide tremendous information and tools to the benefit of the industry.

The sixth round of NAFTA negotiations between the U.S., Mexico, and Canada concluded Monday, January 29 without a final deal. The three countries are at an impasse over the Trump […]

The most common questions I receive at trade shows like USGBC’s Greenbuild, and in my daily work presenting materials education to architects and designers all around the country, are about recycling. There is a perception among a few members of my audience that vinyl cannot be recycled, and that is simply incorrect. The reality is that vinyl is readily recyclable and this is a growing segment within the plastics and material recovery business.