We are proud to launch a new “Sustainability & LEED” section to our website this week, highlighting the green aspects that have always defined our Krystol line of products.
Visiting a friend’s condo in downtown Vancouver the other day, I was impressed by the buildings ability to use its limited design space to incorporate private gardens for each tenant at the top floor...
This summer, the Vancouver Art Gallery is featuring an exhibit called Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life. The exhibit charts the evolution of the MGM Grand Hotel from an isolated and utilitarian...
29,800,000 trees (or 89,000 acres) are cut down every day as of a 2005 report from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This number could actually be much higher today, and...
Have you ever liked the look of a building in the summer, yet found it to be out of place in other seasons? Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a building change its look to reflect the time of year?
Concrete has been around in different forms for thousands of years, but the last few decades have shown new innovation and technologies to improve concrete’s versatility and durability. With so much...
“Green Architecture” has been on the rise since the term’s initial use back in the 1990s. The past few years have seen the concept of “Green Building“ erupting through money saving and sustainability...
Last week, I wrote a post about Torrent Shotcrete winning the American Shotcrete Association (ASA) Outstanding Project of the Year for Infrastructure (2012) for their outstanding work on the Van...
World of Concrete 2013 wrapped up last Friday in Las Vegas, after four tremendous days of concrete exhibitions, seminars, luncheons and many other events. It is already the largest tradeshow event in...
