From Pillar to Post
The trade group's donation covers the cost of PVC pipe for a new 400-foot-deep well that lets the household use its faucets again for drinking, cooking and cleaning.
The next generation of green builders is looking to plastic piping systems to improve carbon footprints of buildings by reducing energy consumption, which achieves higher sustainability.
Auxiliary equipment manufacturers automate clean rooms to make critical medical devices, supply robots to package products, develop scanners for reverse engineering, and now they have a chance to play a greater role in the rebuilding of U.S. infrastructure.
Medical demand, calls for a circular economy and digital upgrades are behind a lot of the developments made in a year fraught with COVID-19 challenges.
A report released Sept. 18 from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development and the U.S. Census Department shows total housing starts rose 12.3 percent in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.36 million units, which is the highest level since May 2007.
New Urbanists are looking at ways to use new materials in traditional neighborhood developments — think houses of various styles with big porches lining tree-shaded sidewalks to parks and cafes.
When it opened last fall, much of the marvel about Uponor North America's new manufacturing plant for cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) pipe focused on how the 237,000-square-foot facility came on line with 40 new jobs six months ahead of schedule.