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Information, resources, and news from Shepley for building professionals on Cape Cod and Nantucket.

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Market Outlook

We’ve all been trying to make sense of the past year with its wild swings. From the doomsday outlook of early COVID a year ago to the gold rush mentality of 2021 with extreme shortages and wild price swings that a shortage creates.

Distracted driving

Distracted Is No Way to Drive

Safe drivers have systems in place that they follow to achieve consistent results and they have the discipline to follow those systems for their safety and ours. Distracted driving is a huge risk on the roads these days. Learn the big three causes.

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Dave Hill—In Memoriam

Recently the world lost a very good carpenter and we lost a great friend. I met Dave Hill as he was framing the first complete house package that our company ever supplied back in 1978.

“Quality is not an act, it is a habit.”

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
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Inflation

Inflation like everything else, has its cycles. Experts in matters of the economy have charted the basic pattern of inflation/deflation into roughly 15 year cycles.

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Bone, Muscle, and Soft Tissue

I found a wonderful piece below by Seth Godin that summarizes the elements of organizations, large or small, and gives us something to ponder about our own organizations, especially at the beginning of a new year. Whether 3 people or 300,...

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What We Have Learned From 2020

Interesting that the year that carries the name of perfect vision (2020) has been a year in which it has been so difficult to focus. As much as this COVID-19 pandemic has surprised us all, historians say that (1) very little is new and (2)...