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Jump to: How to Submit a Comment  Nobody got into contracting or building to track federal trade policy. But every so often, something moves in Washington that shows up on your job site a few months later as a price you didn't budget for. This is one of those times.  The U.S. Trade Representative recently opened a public comment window around something called a U.S.-China Board of Trade. The TLDR for anyone who isn’t interested...

AI's most visible breakthroughs happen on screens, but its physical infrastructure is reshaping power grids, watersheds, and neighborhoods in ways most people only notice when the bill arrives. The data centers that power generative AI are now the fastest-growing industrial load in the United States, and the costs of that growth are landing disproportionately on the people who live near them and pay the...

Three years go fast. One day you’re wrapping up a job under the 2023 code, and suddenly the National Fire Protection Association has dropped 39 updates on the industry and you’re catching up over lunch. Welcome to the 2026 National Electrical Code — same goal as always (keep people from getting hurt), just a lot more specific about how to get there. Here’s what...

For a material as ordinary as cement, it's been getting an unusually exciting upgrade. Calcined clay cement—long talked about as the “promising” low-carbon swap—has moved from research papers and pilot plants into full commercial production, and 2026 looks like the year it crosses into the mainstream. The promise? Roughly half the CO₂ footprint of conventional cement, with strength and durability that hold their own...

Roughly every six months, somebody in a lab somewhere announces a material that is going to revolutionize lighting forever. About 90% of those announcements quietly die in the gap between “works at room temperature in a controlled environment” and “can be manufactured for $0.45 per unit at an overseas lab.” The other 10% turn into the next generation of stuff we will all install...

If you have tried to bid a service upgrade in 2026, you have probably had the same conversation every electrician in America is currently having. You quote the price. The customer squints at the price. They ask why it is so much higher than the quote they got back in 2022. You explain the whole copper price shenanigans. They make a face. You make...