Beware of Scammers Soliciting COVID-19 Donations in IIBEC’s Name May 4, 2020 Some IIBEC members are receiving e-mails soliciting donations of gift cards or other donations for alleged COVID-19 efforts, often purporting to be connected to IIBEC in some way. Neither IIBEC nor its officers on any… IIBEC Members
Potential Issues Encountered During Installation of Air and Weather-Resistive Barriers May 1, 2020 By Karl Schaack, RRC, PE This article is also available in audio format as a podcast. Search your favorite podcast app for “IIBEC,” visit https://anchor.fm/iibec, or listen right here in your browser. Background A… Interface Highlight
Construction-Related Events Rescheduled Due to COVID-19 May 1, 2020 Scores of construction-related conventions, meetings, and conferences have been postponed or even canceled due to the worldwide novel coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). These include, of course, the International Institute of Building Enclosure… Interface Highlight
“Be That One Guy” Program Fights Sexual Harassment May 1, 2020 Scores of tradeswomen signed a portrait of murder and harassment victim Outi Hicks. When Vicki L. O’Leary, a union ironworker, heard about the 2017 beating death of union carpenter apprentice Outi Hicks on a worksite… Interface Highlight
Living Wall as Art May 1, 2020 Urban Ecotones, an interior living wall installation in Oakland, CA, in 2019 became the first living wall to meet the requirements of public art status by a U.S. city. The wall, by David Brenner, founder… Interface Highlight
Blast From IIBEC’s Past: 1992 May 1, 2020 At the RCI convention in 1992 in Nashville, TN, Dr. Walter Rossiter, of the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), addressed the Research Committee of RCI, asking for its assistance in data collection of… Interface Highlight
Ontario’s First Mass Timber Commercial Building in a Century May 1, 2020 Photos by Doublespace Photography. “Buildings don’t usually grow on trees,” says a site promoting the first mass timber commercial building constructed in Ontario in over a hundred years. The office building at 80 Atlantic Avenue… Interface
Reopening of the Michigan Economy Responsibly with the Roofing Industry April 29, 2020 IIBEC and its Great Lakes Chapter were two of 16 organizations in the roofing and insurance industry that signed a letter requesting Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer consider the roofing industry and its supply chain as… News/Advocacy
