Mar 10, 2025
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Discuss these ideas with your tax professional to potentially reduce your tax liability for this year and beyond. Small business owners are often looking for ways to minimize their company’s tax liability. That may mean evaluating your company’s current financial performance and adjusting your tax strategy accordingly, taking advantage of tax-friendly pass-through provisions. Whatever your […]
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Feb 20, 2025
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Architecture stands at the cross-section of art, technology, and humanity. At the most basic level, it shelters us, and on the grandest level, it seeks to inspire and awe. Whether inspired to honour their religious beliefs, house their pursuit of knowledge, or pay tribute to the grandeur of their monarchs, mankind has for centuries been […]
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Feb 13, 2025
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Contractors expect activity to pick up over the next six months amid renewed confidence since the presidential election, according to Associated Builders and Contractors. Construction workers help build a condo tower using steel rebar on Feb. 10, 2025, in Miami, Fla. Joe Raedle/Getty Images via Getty Images Brief: Construction backlog increased to 8.4 months […]
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Feb 03, 2025
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Here is a round up the newest project wins from some of the country’s biggest builders including AECOM, Jacobs and Trumbull. Trumbull, Fay, S&B Construction and Wagman Heavy Civil will help build the new Long Bridge rail project between Virginia and Washington, D.C. Retrieved from Virginia Passenger Rail Authority. Contractors thrive on new business […]
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Jan 30, 2025
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Cheap and flexible perovskite solar cells could revolutionize solar power, making it easier than ever to power the world with sunlight. The new thin layer of solar film is 27% efficient when converting sunlight into energy — compared with the approximate 22% efficiency of silicon panels on the market today. (Image credit: Andriy Onufriyenko/Getty Images) […]
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Jan 16, 2025
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New Law Changes in 2025 Affecting Licensees, Applicants and Stakeholders As we begin 2025, several significant legal changes in California will affect contractors, employers, and freelancers. From increased thresholds for unlicensed work to enhanced protections for freelance workers, these updates are critical for staying compliant and avoiding penalties. Here’s a summary of the most important […]
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Dec 05, 2024
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Around 2020, homeowners started to get serious about accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Some efforts, for example in Los Angeles under the direction of the city’s chief design officer, Christopher Hawthorne, it created a program that allows architects to submit plans for pre-approval to cut down the weeks-long permitting process to as a little as a […]
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Nov 27, 2024
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With Thanksgiving tomorrow, here are 20 quotes that really help put into perspective the power and importance of being thankful more of the time and not just on one particular day out of the year. May your Thanksgiving be bountiful with reasons to be grateful. Gratitude can transform common days “Gratitude can transform […]
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Nov 14, 2024
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A recent scientific breakthrough is paving the way for transparent solar panels, a technology that can potentially bring solar energy everywhere. Photo: Richard Lunt / Michigan State University A breakthrough in solar technology has been achieved. This new technology has come a long way since originally being developed by a team of researchers […]
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Oct 31, 2024
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After briefly falling at the end of the summer, the amount of work on builders’ books rose again following the Fed’s loosening last month. A construction crew works on a CloudHQ data center on July 17 in Ashburn, Virginia. Nathan Howard/Stringer via Getty Images Brief: What a difference a half-point rate cut makes. Thanks […]
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