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Husband and wife Mario and Ciarra Soto make a powerful construction team. Their specialty? Tiny homes. 

Much like every other industry event on the calendar last year, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) and the National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) decided to move the annual Design & Construction Week — featuring NAHB’s International Builders’ Show (IBS) and NKBA’s Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) — to a virtual platform due to health and safety concerns and ongoing travel restrictions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The end of the pandemic is finally in sight as healthcare workers across the country have been receiving their first and second dose COVID-19 vaccinations. 

Amid one of the most impactful pandemics this nation has ever faced, one lesson that continues to be compounded is public buildings need to be updated to provide citizens with a sense of security in order to encourage an economic recovery. 

Here are 10 measures that you can implement right now as part of your organization’s cyberattack prevention plan.  

Large plumbing companies with strong brands make more money than small companies. 

I always hated the business side of being in business. After a hard day’s work, we would retire to our home office to do billing, write checks and fill in the books. 

REHAU is mourning the loss of company founder and honorary president Helmut Wagner. He passed away last Sunday at the age of 95 in Switzerland surrounded by his family. The news of the death of the popular founding father, who was highly committed to the end, has moved REHAU employees around the globe. 

Leaders are often made up of people like me. We often lie awake at night or feel inspired randomly with new ideas. 

In 1989, when I was thinking about writing a book called, “The Lost Art of Steam Heating,” I went to see a young engineer named Frank Gerety.