Decorative plaster and faux finishing embody a tremendously wide range of products and application techniques for decorating wall and ceiling surfaces. Worldwide, these two crafts are gaining in popularity with impressive growth statistics.

Every few decades an innovation comes along that completely changes the contracting landscape. I’m not referring to the near-constant cycle of power tool updates, or forward-thinking new building materials that aren’t yet cost-effective to manufacture or use.

Clay is a simple word for a very complex material. 

Whether you’re a CEO, contractor, project manager, head of sales, superintendent or foreman, you have to make decisions. 

In the past decade, 3-D printed concrete technology has made significant strides moving from theoretical concept to practical process for building of homes, schools, hospitals, hotels, restaurants and other structures. 

The SMA Board of Directors wants to introduce its new Training and Certification Program(s). This is a free event and open to all Stucco Industry people! It takes place on November 4, 11am PST. 

Robert A. Aird graduated from the University of Maryland with dual majors in English and sociology in 1971. 

The SMA has started an SMA YouTube channel. 

In our previous article, Ryan Chivers and I considered the tradition of Tadelakt in Morocco that extends back for many centuries. 

Enigmatic, exotic, artisanal, rustic, seductive—just a few of the superlatives that attempt to capture the essence of Tadelakt, the plaster of Marrakech that has in recent years fascinated the imagination of the Western design world.