The
economic burden of providing health insurance for workers increased more for
small businesses than for large ones from 2000 to 2005, but the spike did not
cause a significant number of small employers to abandon the benefit.
U.S. factory shipments of residential cooling
and heating equipment declined in February, compared with the same month a year
ago, while the commercial market for these products maintained steady growth,
according to AHRI.
Two
recently released studies, one by the New Buildings Institute and one by CoStar
Group, have validated what the green building community has known all along:
third-party-certified buildings outperform their conventional counterparts
across a wide variety of metrics.
As part of its 125th anniversary, the
Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors – National Association will hold a
National Plumbing Industry Week rally May 1, 2008, in Washington, D.C.
In early March, the Raleigh City Council approved a ban on
installing any new and replacement garbage disposal units as a way to reduce
sewage overflows. The
ordinance does not prohibit selling disposers.
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