| USC Upstate Alumni’s Company To Be Featured On HGTV
Spartanburg, S.C. - This spring, drivers on Interstate 26 just west of Spartanburg near Campobello, S.C., have been watching the earth moving equipment and pre-construction activity occurring next to Blue Ridge Log Cabins, manufacturer of factory-built, modular, log cabin homes. The company, owned by Milton A. “Chip" Smith, a 1978 USC Upstate graduate, has also caught the attention of Home and Garden Television (HGTV). “Amazing Log Homes," a special HGTV presentation, will air on Sunday, April 29 at 9:00 p.m. and Monday, April 30 at 1:00 a.m. and focuses on alternative log home construction companies that produce high quality, affordably-priced homes in half the time as traditional site-built log homes which typically take a year to build. “There's nothing old-fashioned about 21st century log homes! The quintessential American construction method is blended with the latest trends and technology to create log homes that are larger and more luxurious than ever," according to HGTV's Web site.
Nouvel Richness on Mercer Street
The history of a building is like the life of a man. Just as death represents the loss of all the memories and moods that make each of us irreplaceable, so, with equal poignancy, the demolition of a building, even the humblest, entails the irretrievable extinction of all that ever happened within the ambit of its walls. By the same token, however, the sudden appearance of a building feels almost as miraculous as a human birth. Where there was nothing, now there is something very big indeed, a place in which generations of men and women will change and evolve and pass their lives. This is the feeling I had standing in front of the new building that Jean Nouvel designed for developer Andre Balazs at 40 Mercer St. No building perished in order for this new one to be built.
Accuracy and Efficiency: The Keys To Makin' Money Movin' Dirt
All of us feel the impact of constantly changing computer and electronic technology every day. Faster, more capable computers. Cell phones that take pictures and play music. High-definition televisions that bring entertainment and news into our homes with real-life clarity. And cars that talk to you, providing exact driving instructions to any address, anywhere. But one of the most unlikely areas where "high tech" is having a major impact is in the rather "low tech" business of moving dirt. More specifically, the grading and filling portions of construction site preparation. Today, the cutting edge of dozer and grader blades can be controlled by cutting-edge electronic communications supplied from space: The network of signal-generating satellites orbiting the earth known commonly as the Global Positioning System (GPS).
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