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AWDI
AWDI will be celebrating the 25 year anniversary of their first Washington, D.C. Conference in 1993 where the preliminary replacement window installation guidelines were presented to DOE, manufacturers, utilities, dealers and more. This conference resulted in consensus and a pathway to initiating the first installation certification program.
Since then, installation guidelines have morphed into ASTM-2112 more than a decade later, and recognition that installation of replacement windows matters as much as the products’ performance in delivering energy savings and weatherization improvement to consumers who replace their windows. Technology and techniques have tried to keep up with product improvement. AWDI has endeavored to put these improvements into the marketplace in a climate of “arm’s-length-distance” between manufacturers, dealers and installers brought about because of liabilities, control, environmental concerns and employment issues. But all agree that delivering in-service performance is the primary goal for all. That goal has been supported by 11 straight years of encouragement for AWDI from Consumer Reports Magazine among others.
AWDI has launched a campaign of “Why AWDI Matters” to suggest ways to help manufacturers and dealers bring the benefits “home” to consumers in real and meaningful terms.
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Remodeling
The EPA's review of the Lead: Renovation, Repair, and Painting rule concludes that a regulation — much disliked by remodelers, window makers and others — should remain unchanged without any actions to amend or rescind it.
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WTOP-FM
While sluggish new home construction gets some of the blame for the lack of homes on the market, existing homes actually make up the vast majority of sales — and homeowners just aren’t selling.
That’s good business for remodelers.
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USA Today
While many people still think that the last housing crisis in the U.S. was largely due to banks offering too many subprime mortgages, it's now clear that wasn't actually the case. Instead, recent research pins the blame on house flippers and speculators, who pumped markets up, then defaulted in large numbers when they were unable to turn a profit on their investment properties.
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Engineering News-Record
Byron Dunnehoo
writes:
I was born with part of my left hand missing. I only have my thumb, no fingers. I don’t ever call this a disability, which in my view is something that’s in someone’s mind. In fact, this circumstance set my goal in life: to do something with one hand better than someone with two hands could. I’m from Lake Charles, Louisiana, and when I was younger, I rodeoed, played basketball and baseball and learned how to hunt, fish and golf.
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Los Angeles Times
"We're in the dark, just like everybody else," said an executive of a West Coast steel importer.
"This administration has been supposedly pro-business, but business doesn't like uncertainty," groused a distributor of stainless steel, who, like others, requested anonymity to avoid antagonizing officials.
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Small Business Trends
Growing a small business isn’t easy. It is one of the toughest challenges many face when they are looking to get out of the 9 – 5 daily grind.
The success of your small business depends on your efforts to grow profits using various methods. From employee training to marketing, every aspect of your business deserves attention.
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HousingWire
New demographics have emerged as the leaders in the homebuying market in 2018, according to a new report from Veritas Urbis Economics.
Veritas Urbis offers real estate and urban economic consulting services for developers, homebuilders, local government and others, and was founded by economist Ralph McLaughlin, formerly the chief economist for Trulia.
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American Express OPEN Forum
When it comes to customer service today, the bar is constantly being raised. Just recently, Amazon began delivering packages to locked cars. The service is designed for people who are concerned about their orders disappearing from their front porches or getting swallowed up in their company's mailroom.
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