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Business
The contemporary business world is inundated with claims that you need to go global in order to attain success, but many small businesses and successful entrepreneurs have made a huge fortune by focusing almost exclusively on local marketing. By tapping into the power of your regional niche, you can vacuum up droves of local customers, resulting in a huge boon for your business.
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For Construction Pros
The topic this month covers tax planning for 2019. Not 2018, mind you, but 2019, even though we are nearly 11 months away from year end. But since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) is so complicated, and can have both positive and negative outcomes depending on decisions you make, I felt a brief discussion is in order to help you deal with this issue in a prudent manner.
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Glass Magazine
UL will host a webinar, "What Recent LEED and Green Program Updates Mean for Your Products," Thursday, Feb. 14, at 2 p.m. The webinar will discuss updates to green building demand drivers, such as LEED v4.1, Fitwel, IgCC ASHRAE 189.1, and the WELL Building Standard, and the implication for industry products.
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Chicago Tribune
As small-business owners compile their income tax returns, they may have an unpleasant surprise — some popular business deductions have disappeared or been reduced under the new tax law. While the law gave small-business owners new tax breaks including a 20 percent deduction in income for many sole proprietors, partners and owners of S corporations, Congress took back deductions for entertainment expenses, employee transit benefits and what are called net operating loss carrybacks. It also put ceilings on interest deductions for some businesses. Accountants and tax attorneys suspect small-business clients to especially miss the break for entertaining clients and customers.
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Fast Company
If you live in an apartment, it's difficult to have solar panels: Your landlord decides what goes on your roof. But a new design makes solar panels more accessible to those without a roof of their own. Hanging inside a window, the origami-style blinds generate electricity as light reflects against the folds of the panel. At the same time, the geometry of the design brings more natural light inside.
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Wall Street Journal
If you spot a female construction worker on a union site in New York City, you can assume three things. Yes, she's probably a tough cookie. And she's likely earning far more than her blue-collar sisters in occupations traditionally held by women. Third? She likely got her start at a little-known workforce training program housed in a former firehouse on a quiet Manhattan street.
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Contractor
Construction companies deal with a lot of proprietary data including bid data, the price of materials, how much profit/loss a particular project is going to garner and of course all the employee data as well. Protecting that data is important yes, but the software that interacts with that is only half the creep of so-called construction tech. As more and more construction workers retire millennials are starting to replace them and guess what millennials bring? Technology. So now we are starting to see a flood of smart everything to the job site. We have smart vests, smart glasses and smart helmets. A lot of this software based "smartness" is being deployed as what we call "edge compute."
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U.S. Glass
The year kicked off with a bang in terms of glass-related construction and manufacturing employment, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The construction industry as a whole added jobs at a 4.7 percent rate from January 2018 to January 2019. The nonresidential specialty trades contractor sector, which includes glaziers and ironworkers, increased employment by 4.3 percent in January from the same time a year ago. Residential specialty trades also saw strong year-over-year growth, adding jobs at a 4.3 percent rate.
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