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Living Buildings Are On The Way — The Future Office Will Breathe, Digest And Grow

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Although the concept might seem new, biophilia — the human race’s innate desire to connect with the natural world — has been inspiring the design of manufactured environments for thousands of years. The idea was to think outside of existing construction conventions to imagine a space that could form part of nature’s ecosystem.

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We’ve been getting job training all wrong

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For example, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, education, and health services have a labor shortage. Conversely, in the construction industry, there is a labor surplus. Organizations need new ways to train people in business-critical skills with speed and, most importantly, to prove that skills are job-ready.

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mHUB Innovation Center – Chicago

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mHUB is the nation’s leading hardtech and manufacturing innovation center. The nonprofit organization offers membership options, runs accelerator programs, and provides research and development services to ensure the manufacturing industry continues to accelerate, grow, and thrive.

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The U.S. Needs More Tradespeople and Women Are Answering the Call

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With a projected 650,000 construction jobs open in the U.S. While the manufacturing industry emerged strong after the COVID-19 pandemic, it could be facing up to 1.9 million unfilled manufacturing jobs if the current trajectory doesn’t change. Now, she is a steamfitter foreman for Hooper Corporation and trains apprentices.

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10 Essential Elements of an Emergency Evacuation Plan

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how many stories, the construction material). Make sure everyone knows exactly what their role is and has been properly trained to perform it. This is especially true for places like manufacturing facilities. But not all of them would require an evacuation. Whether or not you need to evacuate depends on several factors.

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Is College Still Worth It?

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As owner of the manufacturing firm InterTech Plastics, he knew about it all too well. He helped to design systems to make products cheaper to produce, enabling them to compete with Chinese manufacturers, while not sacrificing quality. This was for projects that apprentices were a part of and, in some cases, drove.”.

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

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fit model and later worked for the denim designer and manufacturer by flying around the world to source products. Under construction are 170 one-, two- and three-bedroom homes also featuring a kitchen, dining area and either one or 1.5 I’d rather hire locally and train.” Before that, she was a Levi Strauss & Co.

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