While at Surfaces 2013, Jeff King, counsel for the WFCA, discussed the increasingly complex issue of independent contractors in the flooring industry with TalkFloor’s Dave Foster: who’s an independent, who isn’t, how to protect yourself and a new White Paper intended to help clear things up.
Technical education and installation experts from Protect-All Commercial Flooring spent two days recently at the St. Paul, Minnesota INSTALL Training Center for one-on-one training and information-sharing.
San Antonio-based Allegiance Floors has recently been recognized as the “Specialty Contractor of the Year” by the San Antonio chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America.
Armstrong Commercial Flooring’s recent Design Council brought together a designer, architect, flooring contractor and healthcare facility administrator to explore emerging trends and confer on the overlapping, and sometimes convergent needs of the different disciplines involved in the design, cost, install and maintenance of high-traffic commercial flooring applications.
Construction spending in June rose to a 2-1/2 year high as double-digit percentage increases in private residential and nonresidential construction more than offset an ongoing downturn in public construction, according to an analysis of new federal data released today by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials said they expect the disparity between private and public construction is likely to persist and urged policy makers to put more funding into infrastructure projects.
Facility owners seeking floor coatings that can meet tough performance requirements as well as growing sustainability targets are finding solutions from DSM.
For more than 10 years, I’ve been helping contractors learn and practice good habits. It has improved their lives, their employees’ lives and even the lives of the customers they serve.
