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Where I live in the Chicago suburbs, a portion of this summer was hotter than I ever remember. Three days…

Homes are changing, with the rise of smart and connected devices. Such is the case with home health devices, which…

Economic forces, political unrest, labor shortages, supply-chain woes, and so many other factors are having an impact on the construction…

Heating and cooling a home is certainly expensive. In fact, it costs a lot of money—and uses a lot of…

Structural steel was first used heavily in buildings about 1885 when the Home Insurance Building in Chicago used it for…

The Irish group B*Witched recorded it in 1998, perhaps anticipating 2022: So here we are at the start of this…

As 2022 ended contractors and analysts alike were optimistically starting the journey into 2023 with confidence. Or not. Gartner is…

In the mid-1950s, TV sets were tuned to the Jackie Gleason classic The Honeymooners. Gleason played the character Ralph Kramden,…

We often think of the word “infrastructure” as meaning roads, bridges, airports, that sort of thing. True, but it has…

In the minds of many, Canada is a nation of snow and ice year around. Of course, that’s not true—except…