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Bloomberg
Imagine a future when solar cells can be sprayed or printed onto the windows of skyscrapers or atop sports utility vehicles — and at prices potentially far cheaper than today’s silicon-based panels.
It’s not as far-fetched it seems. Solar researchers and company executives think there’s a good chance the economics of the $42 billion industry will soon be disrupted by something called perovskites, a range of materials that can be used to harvest light when turned into a crystalline structure.
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Door & Window Market Magazine
The 2018 budget proposal released recently by President Donald Trump seeks $1.7 billion in cuts for the Department of Energy — about 5.6 percent of its current funding. To achieve those reductions, the spending plan would eliminate several agencies, including the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy, which runs a program aimed at improving the energy efficiency of existing single-pane windows.
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Construction Dive
Construction sites are inherently dangerous places. Every year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration release data on injuries and deaths of construction workers, with many attributable to falls, excavation collapses, struck-by incidents — all the things one might expect to occur on a job site.
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MultiBriefs
In an effort to enhance the overall content of Door & Window Business, we'd like to include peer-written articles in future editions. As a member of AWDI, your knowledge of the event industry lends itself to unprecedented expertise. And we're hoping you'll share this expertise with your peers through well-written commentary. Because of the digital format, there's no word limit and our group of talented editors can help with final edits. If you're interested in participating, please contact Ronnie Richard to discuss logistics.
Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies
Spending on home improvements is expected to increase this year in 43 of the nation's 50 largest metropolitan areas, according to our latest report about the home improvement industry, Demographic Change and the Remodeling Outlook. The report projects that, on average, home improvement spending in 2017 in these metro areas will be 6.8 percent higher than it was in 2016, slightly more than the projected 6.1 increase nationwide.
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For Construction Pros
It's no secret that the system of payments in the construction industry is seriously flawed, even bordering on the dysfunctional. As money flows down through the payment chain, the further you are from the top — think subcontractors, sub-subs and suppliers — the longer it takes for you to get paid. Late payments are so common in construction that timely payments are the exception rather than the rule, as evidenced by data provided by Dun & Bradstreet.
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Realtor.com
The housing crunch doesn't look like it will be getting better any time soon, according to the latest report on new construction.
The number of permits issued to builders to put up sorely needed homes across the country fell 6.2 percent from January to February, according to the seasonally adjusted numbers in the latest new residential construction report jointly released by the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. However, they were up 4.4 percent from February of 2016.
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