RCI Member News – December 2018 December 14, 2018 Jud Jansen Passes Away Jud Jansen, 74, died September 23, 2018, in Fort Langley, BC, after a year-long battle with cancer. He started as a laborer between Alberta and British Columbia in the 1960s, and… IIBEC Members
National Women in Roofing Pilots Scholarship Program December 14, 2018 National Women in Roofing is pleased to offer a pilot program for scholarships for first-time attendees to NWIR Day and the International Roofing Expo at the 2019 IRE and NRCA Convention in Nashville, TN. The… General Interest
RCI and NWIR Sign Cooperative Agreement December 6, 2018 National Women in Roofing (NWIR) have signed a cooperative plan to further the promotion, outreach, shared purposes, and over-arching goals of the two organizations. Designed to strengthen the mutual interests of the associations and the… About IIBEC
RCI and RCIF Kick Off Choctaw Academy Initiative December 1, 2018 By Tara Wilson A Lidar scan has been done.Pictured on the cover of this month’s RCI Interface is the last remaining structure of what was once the Choctaw Academy in Georgetown, Kentucky. The Academy was… Interface
Water Tank Morphs Into Library for Kenyan Kids December 1, 2018 Children wait to use their new library. Photo courtesy of Stanley Saitowitz. An abandoned rainwater collection tank was transformed into a children’s library in a small farming community in the Nyeri West region of Kenya. Interface
Why Historic Buildings? December 1, 2018 By Trevor Vilac This article is for information purposes and is not intended to replace the advice of a heritage professional or other conservation specialists. Figure 1 – The Gulf of Georgia Cannery National… Interface
Ural Philharmonic Concert Hall to Mimic Sound Waves December 1, 2018 Photo courtesy of Zaha Hadid Architects. Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The venue will contain a 1600-seat concert hall and a smaller 400-seat… Interface
Termite Mounds Hide Secrets to Sustainable Buildings of the Future December 1, 2018 The South Dakota School of Mines & Technology has been awarded $475,000 from the National Science Foundation to study how termites construct mounds with the idea that humans might one day adapt the energy-efficient homebuilding… About IIBEC
