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With Halloween approaching, there are all types of applications for vinyl that contribute to the hauntingly, wonderful holiday! According to the National Retail Federation, Halloween 2014 costume spending is up based on a survey completed by Prosper Insights & Analytics

As a member of The Construction Specification Institute, I have been involved with CSI’s GreenFormat Task Team for several years. CSI developed GreenFormat as the best way for industry professionals to organize, request, and use product sustainability-related information. 

A brand new Adult Day Care facility has just opened in Baltimore, Md., and it is chock full of vinyl products to support the durability, maintenance, and aesthetic needs of […]

In my continuing education classes for architects and designers, I like to highlight how often vinyl has been introduced as a replacement for products made of more ‘traditional’ materials. I recently did some research for a book being written by design historian, Grace Jeffers, which deals with common perceptions about natural and synthetic materials.

PVC is a relatively new material for seawalls. It was studied and initially approached with some caution by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. An interim report issued in 2005 recognized the benefits of PVC seawalls. 

Whether its siding, roofing, flood barriers, or seawalls, vinyl products provide unparalleled benefits to residents living in areas of extreme weather.

It is also the time of year where there’s a lot of competing information about what school supplies to buy and what to avoid—and, frankly, a lot of misinformation too. Add vinyl into that mix. The bottom line, however, is that vinyl school supplies are safe, durable, and make a lot of sense from a dollars-and-cents perspective too.

A marine scientist at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has devised a noninvasive system that may protect beachgoers from shark attacks.