Diane Mastrull: Malvern engineers marketing high-tech storm windowsPerhaps you were motivated by rebates or other federal stimulus incentives. Or by your budget-busting energy bills. Whatever the reason, to those who spent a small fortune in recent years replacing home windows, you have the sympathies of a couple of Malvern chemical engineers.
Cover story: Repairing windows can beat replacing The windows on Dean Arkema's 100-year-old house in North Arlington were nearly as bad as they get. They were "all beaten up," he said, rendered nearly useless by missing panes, broken counterweight cords and about six coats of hardened paint. Conventional wisdom dictated that they should be replaced, most ...
Eastern Iowa buildings on list of Iowa’s most endangered sitesOne of the buildings on the “most endangered properties” list in Cedar Rapids also has made the statewide listing. The People’s Bank and Trust Building, known as the Louis Sullivan Bank, 101 Third Ave. SW, was named to the 2012 Most Endangered Properties by Preservation Iowa. Other Eastern Iowa buildings on the state list, announced [...]