In honor of the NHL Stanley Cup finals, and because it's been a while since I posted, I thought I'd give you an update to my...

We technical designers make a sport of bemoaning the cluelessness of aesthetic designers. My colleague Louis Medcalf tweeted a common...

Are you communicating with your specifier during construction administration? Are you, perhaps, a little afraid to tell your specifier...

I’m specifying a system that depends as much on the fabricator as it does on the materials. In this case, it’s a concrete countertop, but...

Think specs aren't the sexy part of architecture? They should be. I stayed in architecture, when engineering was looking awfully tempting...