Year in Review: My Favorite 2024 Photos

The images on this page are some of my favorite images from this year. They don’t include everything I have seen and done this year, but each one tells a little story. I hope you like them. If you want to see more, check out my albums on Flickr. I also have a selection of my […] Read more..

Sunset at Mount Royal

Montréal (2023)

We spent quite a bit of time this year in Montréal (as part of a sabbatical, plus several other trips) where we were treated to a good amount of real snow, great food, and an amazing arts scene. The images on this page illustrate some of that.

Ice storm

Year In Review: 2023 In (My) Photos

The images below are some of my favorite images from this year. They don’t include everything I have seen and done this year, but each one tells a little bit of a story. I hope you like them. If you want to see more, check out my albums on Flickr. I also have a selection […] Read more..

Fundamentals of Residential Construction, 5th Edition is Here!

I am very happy to announce that after a full year of editing, writing, photographing, reviewing, proof-reading, and then proof-reading again, the new edition of Fundamentals of Residential Construction by Allen/Schreyer/Thallon is now available! As before, it comes in an eBook version as well as a hardcover. For this edition, I was able to implement […] Read more..

Joyful Holidays, Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year 2022!

To my readers, friends and colleagues: I wish you and your loved ones a peaceful and joyous holiday season, a Merry Christmas (to those that celebrate it), and a healthy, happy, and successful new year 2022! Cheers, Alex P.S.: As usual, I modeled everything in this image and the animation in SketchUp (except for some […] Read more..

Introducing my new web-project: A construction mockups archive

When I recently organized my many construction images, I realized that I had a rather large collection of pictures of various construction mockups. Those structures typically only serve a temporary purpose during construction and are then removed once a project is complete. It always seemed to me (as an educator) to be quite a waste […] Read more..