Mark Conkling was an early adopter of green building practices, long before the current green phenomenon in the construction industry. He built passive and solar homes as far back as the 70’s, and continued throughout his career to integrate solar energy elements into his projects. He was a proponent of the “dual monitoring system” which… Read more »
Library construction has contributed a steady stream of projects to the construction industry in the U.S. over the past five years with 350 new libraries built between 2008 and 2013 at a cumulative cost of $2.1 billion according to a Library Journal survey. Yet today’s library is dramatically different from the library of previous generations,… Read more »
The DAWGS executive team has a strong belief that it is important to give back to the community. They have demonstrated this by partnering with Shore Services, Shore Joseph Koenig, Sr. Training Center located in Morton Grove Illinois. Since opening its doors in 1949, the Shore Services team has been passionate about helping individuals with intellectual… Read more »
The recent Virgin Galactic spaceflight test vehicle, VSS Enterprise crash has slowed momentum toward the inaugural launch of a Virgin Galactica rocket into suborbital space. Yet according to speakers at the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPC) meeting in Las Cruces two weeks ago, the Spaceport America facility itself has value beyond the… Read more »
Pacheco claims that Susana Martinez and the New Mexico State Legislature “get it”–that trade with Mexico represents a tremendous boon for the economy of New Mexico. Which feels good to him as he has long felt like a lone voice on the issue. Pacheco laughs that he was once referred to as a “John the… Read more »
