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Acme's Dothan location is located in the southeast corner of Alabama and serves all of the southern half of West Alabama as well as the counties of Bay, Gulf, Holmes, Washington, and part of Walton on the Florida Gulf Coast. Our 3800 square-foot showroom displays brick, ceramic tile, wood flooring, fireplaces, and other products for consumers and contractors building any size of house. It has a paver garden in front displaying both clay and concrete pavers with the center focus being an outdoor fireplace. The building itself is clad in brick and has incorporated into the design brick shapes of several different types.
Acme Brick Company is one of only twenty-five companies nationwide that have received David Weekley Homes’ 2024 nationally acclaimed “Partners of Choice Award.”
In 1988, two physics professors began discussing the scientific components that might lead to better energy efficiency in building construction. Bo Adamson from Lund University in Sweden and Wolfgang Feist from the Institut für Wohnen und Umwelt in Germany had read the research, dating back to the 1970s, that suggested it was possible to construct a low-energy building that was designed to exploit passive solar technologies and establish a comfortable indoor temperature with a low-energy requirement for heating or cooling.
A funny thing happened on the way to the pandemic; people stayed home. Of course, the practical reason for this trend was to stay away from crowds, some of which were composed of people who were ill and didn’t even know it. However, many clouds of sad stories have silver linings!
Despite the fervent requests by companies for employees to “come back to the office,” for many, the genie that escaped from the bottle (or cubicle) during the COVID pandemic is not returning any time soon. Working from home (WFH) is still wildly popular.
One of the best-known buildings on The University of Texas at Austin campus, Gregory Gym, was built in 1930, making it almost 100 years old today. Its unique appearance is partially the result of the style and color of its brick, made by a young company located 200 miles north of Austin, near Fort Worth, called Acme Brick.
The story of Gregory Gym became part of the folklore of the Texas Longhorns.