January 2012 - Posts

• Cast steel does something seemingly impossible

  The title is drawn from the observation of a structural engineer explaining the secret to a novel building design: essentially, it's one, mid-sized office building in Toronto that's being designed, in part, as an insert to an existing structure that has Read More... Posted Monday, January 30, 2012 2:12 PM by REB | 0 Comments

• Short cited-ness

  "Reshoring" continues to be a hot topic among manufacturers. I wrote about the man many people recognize as the leading authority on the subject, but the trend has been observed for several years now. (NADCA is planning a panel discussion on the topic Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:49 AM by REB | 0 Comments

• The riddle of recovery

  I've written several times that the ongoing economic recovery is so unsatisfying because we continue to see high levels of unemployment, but that unemployment is a feature of the economic recovery - not a defect. See this entry, for example. The point Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2012 8:18 AM by REB | 2 Comments

• Odds of recovery

  Economic predictions are still popular this week, but here’s an insightful analysis of recent economic trends that documents a simple and easy-to-miss point: “…most of the economy is (the results of) people doing normal stuff that they always just have Read More... Posted Monday, January 02, 2012 8:15 PM by REB | 1 Comments