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7 Ways to Cut Down Your Household Energy Bills
No one likes opening their electricity bill and seeing numbers that rival a luxury hotel stay. With energy costs rising across Australia, households are looking for ways to reduce their power usage without sacrificing comfort or convenience. Good news: trimming your energy bills doesn’t require a full-scale home renovation or investing in expensive technology. With…
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7 Ways to Cut Down Your Household Energy Bills
No one likes opening their electricity bill and seeing numbers that rival a luxury hotel stay. With energy costs rising across Australia, households are looking for ways to reduce their power usage without sacrificing comfort or convenience. Good news: trimming your energy bills doesn’t require a full-scale home renovation or investing in expensive technology. With…
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7 Ways to Cut Down Your Household Energy Bills
No one likes opening their electricity bill and seeing numbers that rival a luxury hotel stay. With energy costs rising across Australia, households are looking for ways to reduce their power usage without sacrificing comfort or convenience. Good news: trimming your energy bills doesn’t require a full-scale home renovation or investing in expensive technology. With…
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GlobalFoundries commits $16B to expand New York, Vermont facilities
Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: GlobalFoundries announced plans Wednesday to invest an additional $3 billion to expand its semiconductor manufacturing and advanced packaging capabilities in Malta, New York, and Essex Junction, Vermont. The funds will go toward research and development…
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Adopting technology is a team effort: Skanska exec
Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Adopting new technology requires everyone to buy in, said Danielle O’Connell, senior director of emerging technology for Skanska USA, the U.S. arm of the Swedish builder. The contractor uses what O’Connell calls its Eight-Step Plan, a tech…
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How Gamification Improves Fleet Safety and Driver Retention in Construction
Safety is non-negotiable in the construction industry. It’s the foundation every project is built on — sometimes quite literally. From the roar of diesel engines to the choreography of heavy equipment moving across tight jobsite quarters, the difference between a smooth workday and a costly incident often comes down to one thing: driver behavior. …
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White House unveils plan for tech-focused permit reforms
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: The Council on Environmental Quality has issued its Permitting Technology Action Plan, which seeks to modernize federal environmental review and permitting processes for a plethora of infrastructure projects, according to a May 30 news release…
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Job openings stagnate as labor churn flattens
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Construction job openings dropped by 3,000 positions in April as labor churn in the sector slowed, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The industry counted 248,000 open jobs that employers actively…
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ICE raids on building sites stoke fear, uncertainty
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. President Donald Trump’s push to remove undocumented workers from industries across the country played out on several construction sites last week. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested over 100 undocumented workers during a jobsite raid in Tallahassee,…
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CIOB and IOSH dutyholder event
Saul Humphrey, vice-president of CIOB, attended in support of the event, underlining the value of leadership involvement in promoting a safer, better-regulated industry. Also present were Sarah Laing and Sonia Short from CIOB and Liz Mills MBE, IOSH regional development manager. View the original article and our Inspiration here