Walt Steele


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Material Selection: Hornblende
April 2018

The 200-mile drive across northern Wisconsin was typical even as a first-time adventure. Route 29 east and the roads from Eau Claire were easy to follow to Peshtigo. Abandoning the office and the design environment to locate and research materials for sp

Masonry and the Patient Experience in Healthcare Facilities
March 2018

In 1984, Dr. Robert Ulrich published a study in which the effect of the hospital room environment of 46 patients recovering from gall bladder surgery was observed. The individuals were patients at a suburban Pennsylvania hospital between 1972 and 1981,

PROSOCO Launches More Powerful Graffiti Remover
January 2018

PROSOCO Launches More Powerful Graffiti Remover

Acme Brick Announces Lemond Retirement, Executive Promotions
December 2017

Acme Brick Announces Lemond Retirement, Executive Promotions

ASLA Unveils New Virtual Reality Video of Park in Dallas
December 2017

ASLA Unveils New Virtual Reality Video of Park in Dallas

VR Tools for AEC Professionals: Worldviz Introduces Vizible
November 2017

Vizible isn’t just about enabling these interactions, though. As Zach Goepel from Procore Technologies (a Santa Barbara construction project management software company not too far from us) notes: “What’s unique about Vizible is how easy it is to share a

Tumbled Luzerne Paver from Watsontown Brick
November 2017

Watsontown Brick Co. has introduced a new tumbled look for its Luzerne Paver. Using a combination of native red Pennsylvania shale and imported yellow clay, the regular Luzerne Paver is tumbled with black and white paint to achieve the desired distressed

Silca System Makes Elevated Stone Decks Possible
November 2017

A new, durable, plastic polymer grid system is facilitating the installation of stone up to 3 inches thick on elevated surfaces. The system, which is designed to support the structural load across a 16-inch-on-center span, effectively opens up the entire

Special Report: Vectorworks Hosts Third Annual Design Summit
November 2017

As an architecture student, you were exposed to a particular design software. Maybe it was one of the most well known in the field at the time. After graduation, when you joined an architecture firm or opened your own, you went with that software, right?