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The lower guard can break and contact the blade during use, posing a laceration hazard to users.

Donate extra inventory, demo models and no-longer-needed tools and building materials during the month of August.

The Brookings Institution announced that it is launching the new John Hazen White Jr. Forum on Public Policy to study manufacturing.

The Coffee with Caleffi webinar series will continue for the final half of 2012.

The unemployment rate for former construction workers was 12.8%, not seasonally adjusted, down from 15.6% in June 2011 and 20.1% in June 2010.

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis recently announced awards of $1.8 million in grants to consortia in six states through the Women in Apprenticeship and Nontraditional Occupations program.

A full slate of online courses touching on a range of built environment topics is being offered by ASHRAE this fall.

The program allows select AERCO boiler and water heater parts to be returned and refurbished to the performance of a new part. E2N assemblies and equipment provide the same functionality as a brand new model, offering a more economical manner to maintain boiler and hot water systems.

Dina Dwyer-Owens, chairwoman and CEO of Mr. Rooter Plumbing’s parent company The Dwyer Group, was named a winner in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards in the Southwest Area North program.

Chris Perkins is the director of operations at Wilo’s 60,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in Thomasville, Ga.