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Lunch & Learn: What is Modified Wood?
Some markets are slower — some might say wiser — to adopt new products, and that’s true of Modified Wood here in North Texas. European manufacturers have been modifying wood for more than 30 years, but the category didn’t gain real traction in the US until about a...
Lumber Jam – Customer Appreciation
“Your customer doesn't care how much you know until they know how much you care.” …says the popular business author & columnist Harvey McKay – and we agree with him! One of our favorite ways to show you what we know and how much we care is our annual customer...
Door, Doors, Everywhere a Door
"Doors, doors, everywhere a door, blockin’ out the scenery, breakin’ my mind" . . . with apologies to the Canadian rock group “Five Man Electrical Band” of 1971, do you ever consider how many times a day we pass through doors not giving them a second...
TruStile Lunch & Learn April 16
Please join us for a TruStile Doors Continuing Education Course Thursday, April 16th at 11:30. This Course has limited seats. Please RSVP below. This course offers AIA and IDCEC credit. [fc id='6' align='center'][/fc]
The Beauty of Timeless Architecture
TIMELESS ARCHITECTURE What defines timeless architecture? Why is it desirable? Buildings have a longer lifespan than most any other investment. Longer than your car, your clothing, your technology, eyeglasses, you name it. You want a building to be desirable long...
Let’s Taco ‘Bout Timeless Architecture – Happy Hour
Join us for a happy hour Thursday, March 26 @4:30 for Tacos and Talk about Timeless Architecture.
Lunch & Learn February 19th
The Beauty and Legacy of Great Trees
How best to celebrate the 125th anniversary of our hunting and fishing club Southeast of Dallas? Founded on the banks of the Trinity River in 1893, the property is blessed with majestic Post Oaks, mixed with Eastern Red Cedar, Pecan, Burr Oaks and Cypress, among many...
Caretakers of the Great Camps of Lake Placid
The historic Sagamore on Lake George and Mirror Lake Inn in upstate New York are fabulous restored hotels from the early 1900’s, but they are classic white clapboard structures with green shutters - not the Adirondack camps I expected. We were in search of the Gilded...
Lunch & Learn – September 10
Have Lunch on us! AIA credit is given. Please join us on Wednesday, September 10th for an AIA Lunch & Learn where we will discuss “Code compliant exterior systems for wood framed building envelopes” and offer true value-add construction procedures and building...
Building Envelope, Rainscreen Construction and Durable Exteriors
Building Envelope, Rainscreen Construction and Durable Exteriors By Mike Herrema September 4, 2025 There are certainly arguments on how “tight” we should build our homes. Given the relative climate and cost of power in North Texas, we want to provide energy...
Tariffs! So What?
This past week, I had the pleasure of attending a roundtable with the leadership of ten lumber yards around the country in beautiful Natchitoches, Louisiana – the oldest settlement west of the Mississippi! A headline topic was, unsurprisingly, tariffs....
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