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Builder
The National Fenestration Rating Council, a nonprofit organization serving window, door and skylight manufacturers, lists 642 window manufacturers. Just sorting through window material options from those window makers can be a challenge.
For starters, there are vinyl, vinyl composites and more recently fiberglass composite window materials. To underscore the growth, the indispensable bible for construction estimators, the 2018 MasterFormat, now includes an all-new division dedicated to composite window materials.
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Builder
"The worst day of my life," a southeast Texas-based homebuilding job site supervisor told me last week, "was having to call the wife of one of our workers one afternoon, and tell her her husband wasn't coming home that night."
He'd gotten hurt on the job that day, and was heading to the hospital.
Fortunately, in that particular instance, the worker fully recovered and made it back onto his crew on the site.
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Jamsill Guard® is an adjustable sill pan flashing designed to prevent water damage from window and door leaks. Made from high impact ABS plastic, Jamsill Guard® will not deteriorate or corrode over time. Our multi-piece telescoping design allows on-site adjustability to fit all rough openings and features sloped weep areas to help evacuate moisture to the exterior of the structure. Jamsill Guard® is bonded together on site using PVC cement, creating a one-piece sill pan flashing beneath your door or window. Click here to view our video.
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Window Film Magazine
Where the commercial segment is usually the more dominant segment for most architectural film companies, the opportunities in the residential segment shouldn’t be ignored. Even though most of my business is in commercial, the residential segment provides many benefits over the commercial.
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Construction Dive
From customer complaints to repeated injuries, the difference between a well-trained employee and one who isn't can cost your business dearly. Bridging these training gaps is critical to employee and employer success, and identifying them correctly is the first step.
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Crain's Detroit Business
The Republican tax reform plan, signed into law by President Donald Trump in December, aims to encourage economic growth by adjusting how small and midsize businesses and corporations are taxed.
Many American companies will see significant tax cuts, as well as other benefits that can help drive growth.
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By Michael J. Berens
 Housing activity across the board slumped in December as the industry continued its pattern of waxing and waning growth. Despite the decline, final estimates show the industry came out ahead for the year. Forecasters are optimistic that growth will trend upward in 2018, but caution it may not be until the second half of the year that activity will begin to accelerate. Due to weather and the holidays, December historically has been a slow month for the housing industry.
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Renewable Energy Certificates
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Renewable Energy Certificates enable individuals and organizations to channel funds to green power projects, mitigating the impact of their energy use. Read more
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Small Business Trends
As an entrepreneur, the professional challenges you face are well documented. But your career is only part of your life. When you go home from the office at the end of the day, you also have a personal life to deal with. How you confront issues on this side of the scale plays a direct and quantifiable role in the success you experience in your career.
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Construction Dive
Immigrants and the U.S. construction industry have been doing an odd, mutually beneficial dance for decades. Both documented and undocumented workers from places around the world, most visibly from Mexico and Central and South America, have been a source of cheaper labor, and lately they have been helping to fill the gap that retiring baby boomers and young people uninterested in a construction career have created.
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