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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...

Copper is, by every reasonable measure, the most boring metal humanity has ever pulled out of the ground. It is reddish-brown. It does not sparkle. It is not coming back into fashion the way gold-plated owl pendants did for one regrettable summer in 2016. For most of the last century, basically nobody outside of electricians, plumbers, and a few very specific Reddit forums has...

Sometime in 2022, every American I know bought an outdoor sectional. Or a fire pit. Or one of those weirdly tall hairpin-leg side tables. And then we mostly just looked at them. Through a window. From inside. Because the second the sun went down, the backyard became this strange little void. The problem was never the furniture. The problem was the lighting. Or, more...