Promotional Materials In the beginning our promotional material consisted of a business card which had both my name and that of my partner on it. Within a year we each had our own business cards plus a small black and white pamphlet which explained our thoughts and approaches and had one picture of our work. […]

Contracts For the first decade of business all our contracts were hand written calligraphically by me. At first they were simply one page but eventually they grew to a page and a half. Had they been typed the longest would have taken required three quarters of a page. I’m not sure how this compared to […]

Panels In the early eighties the panels that were most commonly available to timber framers were not called SIPs (structural insulated panels); they were simply called “panels” or “insulated panels” or “skins”. Typically, such panels were comprised of a sheet of ½”, or more correctly 7/16’, OSB (oriented strand board) adhered to a layer of […]