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HNI Corporation Receives DOE Better Project Award

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Wednesday, April 17, 2024
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HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) announced it has received a Better Project Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Initiative.

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  • HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) announced it has received a Better Project Award from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings Initiative.
  • The Better Project Award acknowledges HNI's exceptional achievements in executing energy-efficient initiatives within its manufacturing operations, particularly concerning the optimization of paint booth ovens.
  • As a winner of a Better Project award, HNI has demonstrated an innovative pathway to improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions that other organizations can learn from,” said Carolyn Snyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Buildings and Industry at the U.S. Department of Energy.
  • “HNI is committed to improving operations and combating climate change to create a better, more sustainable, tomorrow.

Building Transparency and One Click LCA Partnership Improves Access to Carbon Accounting Data, Enables Decarbonization Across Building Sector

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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By partnering, Building Transparency and One Click LCA are able to improve the flow of environmental data and create a robust ecosystem of tools needed to drive carbon reductions.

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  • By partnering, Building Transparency and One Click LCA are able to improve the flow of environmental data and create a robust ecosystem of tools needed to drive carbon reductions.
  • All EPDs stored in EC3 will be automatically made available in One Click LCA, and all EPDs created and published with One Click LCA will be available for EC3.
  • In addition, this partnership will help drive adoption of openEPD, an open data format for creating and exchanging digital third-party verified EPDs from Building Transparency.
  • “We’re delighted to be accelerating widespread decarbonization with this partnership.”
    Building Transparency and One Click LCA aim to streamline the resources and tools needed to drive climate action across the building sector.

National Coalition Launches Turnkey Building Decarbonization Program in 9 Major U.S. Cities and Counties

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Thursday, April 11, 2024
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Today, a national coalition that includes nine major cities and counties launched a turnkey building decarbonization program that aims to rapidly scale up the deployment of clean-energy technologies across millions of small commercial and multifamily buildings with persistently high carbon footprints.

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  • Today, a national coalition that includes nine major cities and counties launched a turnkey building decarbonization program that aims to rapidly scale up the deployment of clean-energy technologies across millions of small commercial and multifamily buildings with persistently high carbon footprints.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240411313041/en/
    Building Decarbonization In-a-Box is a turnkey building decarbonization program being launched in nine major cities and counties that aims to rapidly scale up the deployment of clean-energy technologies across millions of small commercial and multifamily buildings with persistently high carbon footprints.
  • To implement BDAB, participating cities and counties will harness three key data sets: building permits, energy benchmarking (where available), and customer utility data.
  • Provide participating building owners with no-cost technical and financial assistance via proven software solutions from SRS, UtilityAPI, and Allectrify.

National Institute of Building Sciences Announces Building Innovation 2024 Schedule

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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WASHINGTON, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) has released the schedule for Building Innovation 2024.

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  • BI2024 opens May 22 with a panel featuring several agency partners and members to discuss building sciences in the U.S. and NIBS' 50th anniversary
    WASHINGTON, April 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) has released the schedule for Building Innovation 2024.
  • Building Innovation is one of the premiere meetings for all who impact the built environment to find solutions.
  • Concluding the Building Innovation conference, attendees are invited to the Brains & Bytes BIMStorm: Digital Twin AI Workshop.
  • Building Innovation is free and open to members of the media.

Autodesk and the Nemetschek Group Agree to Advance Open, Interoperable Workflows for Design and Make Industries

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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But too often, people, processes, and data are siloed due to software and file incompatibility, resulting in inefficient workflows.

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  • But too often, people, processes, and data are siloed due to software and file incompatibility, resulting in inefficient workflows.
  • "Extending Autodesk's cloud and desktop solutions with Nemetschek interoperability is a huge step towards optimizing our customers' workflows and helping them generate better project outcomes."
  • "Supporting openBIM, interoperability, and open industry standards is deeply rooted in the Nemetschek Group's DNA," said Marc Nézet, Chief Strategy Officer of the Nemetschek Group.
  • This will enable the two companies to improve upon existing data exchanges and open new data-centric workflows that span disciplines and industries.

IDTechEx Asks How Gate-Based Quantum Computers Will Scale-Up

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Yet, for many, evidence is also mounting that the hype surrounding quantum computing may be past its peak.

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  • Yet, for many, evidence is also mounting that the hype surrounding quantum computing may be past its peak.
  • Worse still – the 'quantum talent crisis' is intensifying, with many players struggling to recruit the physicists, quantum engineers, chip designers, and computer scientists they need to grow.
  • Awareness of the importance of reducing errors in quantum computers has grown significantly.
  • Decoherence is catastrophic for quantum advantage, seeing qubits no longer simultaneously represent 1s and 0s but quite classically 1s or 0s.

IDTechEx Asks How Gate-Based Quantum Computers Will Scale-Up

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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Yet, for many, evidence is also mounting that the hype surrounding quantum computing may be past its peak.

Key Points: 
  • Yet, for many, evidence is also mounting that the hype surrounding quantum computing may be past its peak.
  • Worse still – the 'quantum talent crisis' is intensifying, with many players struggling to recruit the physicists, quantum engineers, chip designers, and computer scientists they need to grow.
  • Awareness of the importance of reducing errors in quantum computers has grown significantly.
  • Decoherence is catastrophic for quantum advantage, seeing qubits no longer simultaneously represent 1s and 0s but quite classically 1s or 0s.

Vast Majority (80%) of US Households Have a Home Network Router; 28% Report Intentions to Purchase

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Monday, April 22, 2024
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DALLAS, April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Parks Associates' Consumer Electronics Dashboard, derived from quarterly consumer surveys of 8,000 US internet households, reveals 80% of US internet households own a home network router. Elizabeth Parks will present this and other data at Wi-Fi World Congress USA 2024 on April 23 in Sarasota, Florida, during the session "Present & Future of Smart Home IoT, Smart Building IoT."

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  • The research shows 28% of US households report intentions to purchase a home network router or Wi-Fi extender in the next six months, up from 25% in Q3 2022.
  • "This surge in demand reflects a broader societal transition towards greater reliance on connectivity for both professional and personal use cases."
  • Parks Associates research finds that 61% of US internet households have at least one remote worker.
  • To schedule an interview with an analyst or to request specific data, please contact Mindi Sue Sternblitz-Rubenstein at [email protected] or 972-490-1113.

Chesapeake Utilities Corporation Gains Approval to Establish Energy Efficiency Programs in Delaware

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Monday, April 22, 2024
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DOVER, Del., April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) announced today the Delaware Public Service Commission voted to approve the Company's establishment of a portfolio of natural gas energy efficiency programs for Delaware. Chesapeake Utilities will partner with the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility to deliver the programs, which are the first natural gas efficiency programs to be offered in the state. Delaware residents will benefit from solutions to lower energy costs and live more sustainably.

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  • DOVER, Del., April 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Chesapeake Utilities Corporation (NYSE: CPK) announced today the Delaware Public Service Commission voted to approve the Company's establishment of a portfolio of natural gas energy efficiency programs for Delaware.
  • Chesapeake Utilities will partner with the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility to deliver the programs, which are the first natural gas efficiency programs to be offered in the state.
  • "This was a team effort, and we sincerely appreciate collaborating with the Delaware Public Service Commission, the Division of the Public Advocate, the Delaware Energy Efficiency Advisory Council and the Delaware Sustainable Energy Utility to make these programs possible."
  • Chesapeake Utilities developed the portfolio of programs to achieve cost-effective energy and demand savings for its Delaware natural gas customers.

Linux Foundation Energy Announces New Open Source Initiatives for Substation Digitalization, Energy AI and Data, and More

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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- LF Energy, the open source foundation focused on harnessing the power of collaborative software and hardware technologies to accelerate the energy transition, is pleased to announce that four new open source technical projects and three new working groups have been accepted into the foundation. These initiatives will provide the energy sector with new resources around digital substations, preparing for extreme weather events, taking advantage of advances in data and AI technologies, and more. This comes ahead of the Open Sustainability Policy Summit and Open EV Charging Summit, both of which LF Energy is hosting with partners in May.

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  • LF Energy hosts working groups, which bring together communities of disparate stakeholders to identify challenges and develop open source solutions for the energy transition.
  • LF Energy AI is a Special Interest Group created to drive AI for energy priorities forward.
  • LF Energy is organizing three upcoming events to gather various groups of energy stakeholders to learn and share best practices and open source solutions for the energy transition.
  • "We are pleased to see support for open source software, hardware, and standards growing to drive the energy transition forward," said LF Energy Executive Director Alex Thornton.