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Mar 2015

A Place Like Home

Jeff Gavin
In the new reality of resilient construction, there may be no place like home. According to McGraw-Hill Construction, green-built homes will represent as much as 38 percent of the residential market by 2016. What was a $17 bi...
Mar 2014

Riches In Niches

John Paul Quinn
Despite the fact that the US Census Bureau reported, at the end of 2013, that housing starts had increased 29 percent over the previous year, electrical contractors (ECs) generally agree that the residential market is not exa...
Mar 2014

Energy Storage Moving Closer to Home

Chuck Ross
It seems like, every other week, a leading research lab announces a breakthrough technology to make batteries more powerful, more durable or a whole lot less expensive—after just a few more years of research and development....
Mar 2013

Wobbly Housing Market Getting Its Legs Back

Rick Laezman
It’s been said that, if you talk to three economists, you will get no less than four different and equally plausible explanations for why the economy is the way it is. This same principle could be applied to recent observatio...
Nov 2012

U.K. Home to Be Constructed Entirely From Waste

Rick Laezman
With efficiency now occupying a top-tier status in the effort to transform energy use, it was only a matter of time before the spotlight trained on waste and building construction. An architectural firm in Brighton, England,...
Oct 2012

The Integrated Systems Contractor Rises

Wayne D. Moore
McGraw-Hill has predicted that multifamily housing will rise 19 percent in dollars and 18 percent in units, continuing its moderate, upward trend. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that fewer individuals can afford to...
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