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Energy.gov
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy recently announced $31 million in funding for 14 projects as part of ARPA-E’s newest program: Single-Pane Highly Insulating Efficient Lucid Design. SHIELD project teams are developing innovative window coatings and windowpanes that could significantly improve the energy efficiency of existing single-pane windows in commercial and residential buildings.
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HRDive
The overtime rule is here, and its challenges have been long documented.
After months of speculation, the Department of Labor officially set the new FMLA overtime exemption salary at $47,476 last week. The rule will force many employers to choose between raising the salary of certain employees above the threshold or reclassifying employees entirely and granting them overtime pay. There is no easy option between the two.
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Construction Dive
Along with labor shortages, increasing regulations and lot availability problems, one issue spans all sectors of the construction industry, leaving professionals fraught with concern. That issue is productivity. Recently, Brendan Bechtel, president and COO of global construction giant Bechtel, told Fortune that stagnant productivity levels in construction leave him "haunted at night."
A recent World Economic Forum study found that productivity gains in the construction industry have been "meager" when compared with the advancements of other industries during the last 50 years.
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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 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.
Eye on Housing
NAHB's measure of lot shortages hit a new record in May. In answer to special questions on the survey for the NAHB/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index, 64 percent of builders reported that the supply of lots in their markets was low or very low — up from 62 percent last year and the highest the lot shortage percentage has been since NAHB began collecting the information in 1997.
Perhaps most notable is that builders reported this record shortage at a time when new homes are being started at a rate of under 1.2 million a year. in 2005, when total housing starts were over 2.0 million, the share of builders reporting a shortage of lots was "only" 53 percent.
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Entrepreneur
Whether you're writing direct mail sales pieces, a blog, a job application or copy for your website, there are certain basic rules you can follow to help you get and keep your readers' attention — and motivate them to action. Here are some of the rules you can put into practice.
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Dezeen Magazine
Designers Ron Culver and Joseph Sarafian have developed a method of casting concrete in Lycra stretched by robotic arms, which they believe could be used to create radical new architectural forms.
Carried out at the University of California, the Fabric Forms project involves pouring a concrete fibreglass mixture into Y-shaped Lycra sleeves stretched into position by six-axis robots.
"This casting method has implications at various scales in the construction site of the future," Sarafian told Dezeen. "We see it being scaled up to create unique building facade elements or even the primary structure of a building."
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