At the RESNET national conference last month it was all I could do to keep quiet! For the first time in 15 years I sat through the annual Sunday afternoon Board meeting stifling my urge to respond to each vote with a “yay” (or a “nay”!) – because this year I opted not to put myself forward for re-election and instead chose “retirement” (hardly early) in favor of some new blood – and the new ideas and thinking some fresh faces will surely bring. Left to right: Roy Honican, RE

Buildings tend to look like they've always been where they are. They appear static, solid, and stuck in one place. But buildings and the parts they are made of do not stay in one place and in fact take journeys across many places and phases, much like living things. The ingredients of buildings are born in nature - natural resources which humans extract. We extract them with massive machines that tear apart the earth in order to have the basic building blocks of our industria