For some residents of Louisville, Kentucky, the city isn’t what it used to be because of growing violence. A group of four teens, Travis, Demontae, Thomas, and Alan, are doing something to help improve their neighborhood. The young men mow lawns for free to help those in need in the community,[Read More…]
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Shed Builder Goes Nationwide … Online
The idea for Studio Shed started because its founder had too many mountain bikes and too little storage space. It grew into an online backyard buildings company that now provides high-design buildings from coast-to-coast. Since its inception in its founder’s backyard, Studio Shed has pushed the boundaries of the shed[Read More…]
Knocking Out Quality Sheds in One Day
Ten years ago, John Fealy went in search of a shed. But after only finding low-quality, high-priced structures, he decided to put his knowledge of carpentry to use and build his own. That’s how Ready Shed in Bohemia, New York, got its start. Today, it’s a three-man operation that[Read More…]
Tiny Homes Making Ownership Possible in Detroit
Detroit has highest rate of concentrated poverty in the 25 top metro areas in the United States. Many factors are making it difficult for residents to get out of poverty, let alone own a home. Tiny Homes Detroit is making a way for low-income folks to become homeowners. The[Read More…]
Georgia-Pacific Building New Lumber Production Facility
Georgia-Pacific plans to build a new lumber production facility in Talladega, Alabama, the company reports. Construction on the $100 million, 300,000-square-foot, technologically advanced plant is scheduled to begin immediately with an anticipated startup in late 2018. Once it is fully operational, the plant will employ more than 100 full-time employees[Read More…]
Video: The Case for Professional Shed Builders
As a shed builder, you work to provide your customers with reliable, quality storage. But did you know you might be protecting life and limb as well? Watch this video and see what happens when two non-professionals try their hand at building a shed. Some people would laugh at this[Read More…]
Big Sky Country Shed Build
There are certain things that have to be done in certain ways to build a shed. However, every builder has his own special techniques for some parts of a build. In the following video, Montana Shed Center, in Great Falls, Montana, shows how they do it. The structure in the[Read More…]
New Website Continues Virginia Shed Builder’s Legacy
When JZ Utility Barns (now Yoder’s Quality Buildings) was founded by Jonathan Zook in 2001, little did the family know what all would soon transpire. For the first few years, the Utility Shed Company based in Rural Retreat, Virginia, made slow growth as father and sons worked hard to get their new[Read More…]
Florida Portable Building Company Opens New Location
Keen’s Portable Buildings LLC in Florida opened a new location in April, the company reports. The new spot, the company’s fifth, is in Brooksville/Massaryktown, Florida. “When it comes to Keen’s Portable Buildings our first goal is always to provide the best customer service and get our products to customers in[Read More…]
NY Army National Guard Train on Building Projects
Nearly 300 soldiers from the Binghamton, New York-based 204th Engineer Battalion used their summer annual training to prepare for overseas deployments and domestic operations while building lasting projects across three ranges and four construction sites in Fort Drum, New York, in July. “Not only are we training to deploy but[Read More…]
