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EME Outlook Magazine | May 05, 2020

In 2016, Engineering UK announced a severe crisis in recruitment. More people are leaving the engineering sector than entering. Even with the best case scenario in mind (that is, given the lowest estimate of the numbers leaving), engineering’s future looks bleak: there are 69,000 people abandoning the sector every year, compared to around 46,000 apprentices and undergrads seeking to replace them. It is thought that a combination of uncertainty around Brexit, along with risin...

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IBP | April 20, 2022

Installed Building Products, Inc. an industry-leading installer of insulation and complementary building products, announced today the acquisition of Central Aluminum Supply Corporation and Central Aluminum Supply of North Jersey, LLC (“CAS”). Established in 2004, CAS is headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey and is a distributor of gutter supplies and accessories to residential, multifamily and commercial markets, primarily in existing or retrofit construction projects across the U.S....

Engineering.com | March 17, 2020

The last pandemic that almost brought the world to its knees happened during World War I. The viruses of the 1918 Spanish Flu, named for a country that had little to do with it, killed more people 50 to 100 million than bullets did. But a hundred years ago, we didn't know about viruses. We had no idea that being packed together in the trenches of war or the close quarters of cities would cause a contagion to spread like a wildfire. Before the discovery of cells blood, cancer, etc. and microo...

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Agora | August 12, 2021

Agora, the industry-leading commercial construction procurement platform, today announced its $33 million Series B funding round led by Tiger Global, with additional key investments from 8VC, Tishman Speyer, Jerry Yang, Michael Ovitz, DST, LeFrak, and Kevin Hartz. Commercial trade contractors use Agora to order and track materials, automate manual data entry, and bring all their supply chain stakeholders together onto a single platform for seamless communication. Agora's software solution is...