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Why Some Technologies Could Leave You and Your Employees Feeling Exhausted
If amid COVID-19 your company has found ways to continue operating through video conferencing, but at the end of the day you find yourself feeling a little extra tired, there’s a good explanation for this. Unfortunately, there’s also nothing you … Continue reading
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Tagged COVID, glass and glazing, glass news, technology, USGlass, vaccines, wfh, Zoom
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Vision Group Acquires ENERGI, While Parceling Out Some Locations
In a series of transactions occurring this week, door and window company ENERGI Fenestration Solutions was acquired by Vision Group. At the same time, two of ENERGI’s plants were parceled out as part of the deal—one acquired by Novatech Group … Continue reading
American Jobs Plan Calls for $213 billion in Building and Retrofitting
With an eye on U.S. infrastructure, environmental protection and competition with China, the administration debuted the American Jobs Plan in recent weeks, calling on Congress to place significant investments into rebuilding the U.S. economy. As the second part of a … Continue reading
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NFRC Opens Spring Committee Meeting on Notes of Optimism
“The green wave is coming,” announced officials for the National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) yesterday, and along with it an expected 25% increase in the market for fenestration products, they added. That was one of several messages used to usher … Continue reading
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Tagged aerogels, Annual Spring Committee Meeting, bio waste materials, commercial glazing, COVID-19, Deb Callahan, fenestration products, FenStar program deliverables, green wave, insulating glass units (IGUs), nano-cellulose structures, National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC), National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), R-10 windows, Rob Tenent, thin glass, transparent formats, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), vacuum insulating glass (VIG)
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Novel Window Designs Aim for More Than Just Efficiency
As manufacturers work to deploy better versions of double and triple-pane insulating glass, outside researchers are developing novel ideas for windows that go beyond additional lites, gas fills and coatings. In February, Dave Cooper, a consultant for the insulating glass … Continue reading
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Tagged Acoustic Friendly Ventilation Window (AFVW), Dave Cooper, double and triple-pane insulating glass, Eddie Lau, Fenestration Consulting Services LLC, John Costa, manufacturers, monolithic version, National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSFIC), National University of Singapore (NUS), novel ideas, NUS School of Design and Environment, silica aerogel monoliths, sound absorbers, Sunthru LLC, transparent aerogel, Union College
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