Tag: Wisconsin

Urban jungle: wooden high-rises change city skylines as builders ditch concrete



  • Mass timber could prove to be a viable alternative to concrete and steel for mid-to-high rise buildings.
  • We don’t see mass timber replacing those, it just becomes another option when certain parameters and goals apply to a project.”
  • Called mass timber, the material is an umbrella term for large, solid chunks of panelized wood.
  • Out of the mass timber initiative, CLT might prove to change the construction paradigm.
  • Two urban building projects, in New York City and Portland, Oregon, will be changing their city’s skylines with an environmentally sustainable, cost-competitive building material.


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Lindus Construction Receives GAF’s Prestigious 2014 President’s Club Award



  • Baldwin, WI – December 04, 2015 – Lindus Construction, Inc., of Baldwin, Wisconsin, has received GAF’s most prestigious contractor award: The GAF President’s Club Award.
  • Whether their clients are remodeling their homes or doing new construction, Lindus Construction keeps them highly satisfied with top-tiered products, a staff of hard-working & talented employees and a strong tradition of excellence.
  • Lindus Construction of Baldwin, WI, has received GAF’s 2014 President’s Club Award.
  • This highly coveted award recognizes Lindus Construction as one of the “elite of the elite” residential roofing contractors in the United States.
  • GAF is North America’s largest roofing manufacturer, and only GAF Master Elite(R) Contractors can compete for its President’s Club Award.


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FitzSimons’s installation is meant to explore how we “view, think and dream” about homes



  • Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: a stark installation on the Chicago lakefront by artist Sarah FitzSimons features the outline of a traditional two-storey American house (+ slideshow).
  • Her work has been exhibited in cities around the US.

    House is on view in Chicago through 25 October.

  • Titled House, the structure sits on a beach along Lake Michigan, with a part of it submerged in water.
  • The temporary installation has no roof, walls, nor cladding – leaving it intentionally open to the elements.
  • FitzSimons used aluminium poles and joints to create the outline of a typical two-storey home found in the American Midwest.


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