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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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Congressional Budget Office Points to Possible Fallouts from Increased Minimum Wage
As the administration presses for raising the federal minimum wage, a nonpartisan analysis issued by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) examines how the Raise the Wage Act of 2021 would impact facets of the national budget. The same report delves … Continue reading
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Tagged $15 per hour, Biden administration, CBO’s economic forecasting, Congressional Budget Office (CBO), cumulative federal budget deficit, federal minimum wage, government officials, higher-skilled workers, IMPACT, incremental increases, June 2025, low-wage workers, machinery, macro level, national budget, nominal gross domestic product (GDP), nonpartisan analysis, Raise the Wage Act of 2021
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Organizations Petition UN for Year of Glass
Each year, the United Nations (U.N.) designates specific periods as markers for events or topics, in order to promote the organization’s objectives. Established by the U.N.’s general assembly, observances range from days, to years and even decades. 2015 was the … Continue reading
