Well, next week is the IPTW at Frederick, MD... here is what David and I 
have in mind for our session. Hopefully by the time we get to MD we will 
have put in the last few hours of detailed touch-up for a fully finished 
job. By that time the bathroom relocation project will have taken 30 
working days for a crew of 3 (me included though it was never planned 
that way). It has been interesting, to say the least... my face-to-face 
screaming match with the owner of the property early on I cannot say was 
the most critical point though I have never in the past had to do just 
that. The finished result looks good to the eye.

I suggest that you might take the time to go online to www.iptw.org and 
see who else will be there and their sessions... some very interesting 
folk and a really fine gathering is anticipated along with a few BP'rs 
scattered here and there.

Traditional Trades in the Urban Environment of NYC

Ken Follett and David Follett of the Follett Group, LLC will present 
tools, techniques and experiences of work on historic projects in one of 
the most concentrated urban environments in the world.  Presentation 
will revolve around a recently completed project of deconstruction and 
reconstruction of a 300 SF marble clad bathroom that was previously 
constructed 20 odd years ago of stone salvaged from the St. Regis Hotel. 

The presentation will focus on how various conditions and restrictions 
of the urban environment impact on work practice, logistics, the work 
crew, the customer and the ever present public.  A variety of examples, 
stories and curious projects (Mount Morris Fire Watch Tower, Bowne 
House, Lefferts House, Hessian Hut, Emir of Qatar residence, and Gate of 
Heaven cemetery chapel dalle de verre stained glass) will be 
highlighted.  Comparisons will be made between the experience of work in 
urban and non-urban environments. Tools will be presented with 
discussion of specific techniques, as well as the process of 
experiential in-field trade education, project communications and 
management.

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