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Regeneron, a biopharma giant that employs 1,000 people in Limerick, is to create 60 more jobs.

The company, which has an industrial operations and product supply facility at the Raheen Industrial Estate, is working on a Covid-19 antibody cocktail known as Regn-Cov2. Clinical trials are due to commence next month.

Regeneron acquired the former Dell computer facility in Limerick and secured planning approval in April 2014 for its first facility outside of the United States. Over the last six years, the company has invested more than $1 billion to build what is believed to be the largest biologics manufacturing facility in the Republic.

The company said it continues to expand locally with construction ongoing for a new laboratory and office building.

It feels surreal to now have over 1,000 of the most talented people in the industry working at our Raheen site. At the time we decided to set up shop in Limerick, I didnt fully appreciate the depth of the Irish talent pool or how welcoming the community would be, said Daniel van Plew, executive vice-president and general manager. It is a privilege to continue to work and grow in Limerick, and to be surrounded by so many hardworking and innovative people.

Regeneron, which employs more than 8,000 people in total, reported revenues of $7.86 billion last year. The last publicly available accounts for its Irish unit show it reported pretax profits of $386.47 million on revenues of $1.87 billion in 2018.

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Erin Eagles says she doesn't miss the drive to her Saint John office and sees no rush to give up working from home.

After weeks of practice, she has figured out the best place to video conference with clients is a tidy corner of the basement playroom.

There, the lighting is fine and her family won't come looking for a snack.

However, she says, her eight-year-old can be a distraction.

"There's a constant little pull," said Eagles, a financial adviser with Sun Life.

"Mostly from my daughter because if she knows I'm here, she wants my attention."

People who make a living off commercial real estate, and those who study that market,are waiting to see what workers like Eagles will choose to do next.

She's one of thousands of New Brunswickers who have learned to work from home because of COVID-19.

She's had enough time to master the transition. She's seen the good and the bad.

Some predict the good will win out and that many will decide to abandon their commute at the expense of New Brunswick's downtowns.

Business development analyst Ben Champoux saidyou'll see a change in Moncton.

Normally, he said, some 20,000 people from nearby communities such as Riverview, Dieppe, Shediac and Bouctouche, drive into the city for their jobs.

Those 20,000 workers are the reason why the downtown bars and restaurants thrive.

But in the past two or three months, Champoux said, most of those people have had to stay home and some, who managed to work there, have discovered they like it.

"This is very anecdotal, but I talk to friends on a regular basis and they're all telling me that they're as efficient as they used to be.

"Frankly, they're even more productive because they don't have to spend so much time in a car every morning and night. They don't have to take an hour to find a restaurant and eat. They can eat very quickly at home.

"And now they're seriously wondering, 'Do I really need to be physically back downtown and driving half an hour in the morning and half an hour at night, or could I spend it with my spouse and my kids?'"

Champoux saidit's not a question of whether people will choose to stay home, but a question of how many.

Across the province, some big employers said they're taking a slow and cautious approach getting people back to work.

Assumption Life said 98 per cent of its downtown Moncton workforce was able to do their jobs from home by the end of the week of March 16.

The company said it was a seamless transition that took less than 48 hours to execute.

"This current situation is showing us that working from home could be an option, depending on the role and responsibilities of each employee," wrote Thomas Raffy, director of communications.

Raffy said the company is working with the building's management company to come up with a multi-stage plan to get workers back into the tower.

That plan, he said, will also consider the daily feedback from employees on "how they're doing at home, how they're balancing their work and their personal lives, and how they perceive their return to work."

J.D. Irving Ltd. said thatacross its operations in Canada and the U.S., it had 2,800 employees working from home while its mills and offices were being reconfigured to reduce the risk of COVID-19.

Those preparations included the production of some 30,000 signs to guide people on where to sit and stand to maintain physical distance.

The company said nearly 3,000 face masks were provided to workers in the mills.

Bathrooms had to be changed and workstations have all been equipped with disinfectant wipes and sanitizer.

"The whole time, on the forest products side, from Lake Utopia to Irving Tissue in Moncton, not a single case of COVID, not a single layoff," said Mary Keith, vice-president of communications.

Now the company has mapped out its plan to bring them back.

"It's almost harder than sending them home," Keith said.

At 300 Union St., workers have started to reoccupy the 12-storey building, one floor at a time.

Much like Moncton, Saint John has been missing its commuters as many as 16,000 per day.

Full occupancy of the JDI headquarters puts 800 people in the city centre.

Jeff Yerxa has 90,000 square feet of office space soon to open in Fredericton's downtown and he said he's not worried he'll find takers for the third of the building that isn't yet leased.

He's the president and CEO Of Ross Ventures and once pitched his proposal for 140 Carleton as "Fredericton's sexiest building."

"It looks largely finished on the outside but the inside is still under a fair amount of construction," said Yerxa, who declined to say who is moving in.

"We don't anticipate the first tenants taking occupancy there until late summer, possibly early fall."

Yerxa said he's watching the impactof COVID-19 on workers, and he thinks their reaction to working from home is mixed.

"There's people who went home to work and loved working from home and there's people who went home to work and hated working from home.

"Then there's the other side of the equation, which is the employers. So there's employers who sent their staff home and found some of them very productive, possibly more productive working from home. And of course, the opposite is true, too.

"I don't think the need for office space is going to disappear."

Alexandra Allen thinks demand won't disappear, but she wouldn't be surprised to see it quickly soften.

As senior manager of the economic intelligence unit for Turner, Drake and Partners, she leads the team that runs the company's semi-annual survey on more than 38 million square feet of office and industrial space across Atlantic Canada.

She saidrecession drives change. Employers go looking for savings by reducing their footprints.

In the 90s, she says private offices were swapped out for cubicles.

Then the 2008 downturn drove the trend toward open and collaborative spaces, also known as "bullpens."

Allen said the post COVID recession will give some employers no choice. They'll have to keep their workers at home so they can save on rent.

"It will be a survival mechanism," she said.

She said tenants can't rush for the exits because they often sign multi-year leases.

However, early indicators of a weaker market would show up as added incentives offered by the landlords, such as cash inducements to get tenants to move in, Allen said.

"Then as vacancy creeps up, the next thing is that rental rates will have downward pressure on them. First, you'll see stagnation, then actual downward shifts."

Allen said she'll be looking for early downturn indicators in the next survey results due out in July.

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Post Covid-19 the per capita office space allocations is likely to increase despite a segment of employees are to work from home.

In office real estate, social distancing norms may increase the per capita office space allocations. During the last decade, per capita office space allocation reduced from 100-125 sq ft to 75-100 sq ft in the pre-Covid-19 period of January 2020, revealed Anarock in its report India Real Estate: A Different World Post Covid-19.

The report added, Safety and hygiene will become the top priority, even as contactless operations and automation will increase. Decentralisation of operations to ensure business continuity will be a trend reversal from prominent consolidations over the past few years.

Flexible workspaces is expected to re-evaluate its models. IT and BPM will continue demand levels. Despite the lockdown and subsequent easing of restrictions, IT-BPM sector is anticipated to continue driving demand for office space, said consulting firm KPMG in its report called Covid-19: React, adapt and recover The new reality: A perspective on the Indian real estate sector.

The report stated: Despite steady leasing in flexible workspaces across major Indian cities the segment will face major headwinds over the next 9-12 months period.

Post lockdown the sector should resume operations by leveraging technology innovations for enabling employee and consumer health safety standards, design flexibility (Work from Home), cost optimisation and consumer engagement (such as AI, VR, BIM, etc), focussed localisation of supply chains, re-organisation of business models, which is likely to revive activity, accelerating Indian real estates turnaround over the coming 1218 months, said Chintan Patel, Partner and Leader Building, Construction and Real Estate, KPMG.

On the retail reality front, Anarocks report said, In retail, online businesses will gain momentum - e-commerce giants have already added over 5,000 people to their delivery fleet during the lockdown period. Their consumer base expanded to senior citizens who have embraced technology in the Covid-19 era.

Mall revival will come with caveats. With hygiene and sanitation taking centre stage, malls which can offer these will benefit most in times to come, it added.

Retail real estate recovery expected despite uphill challenges, said KPMG, and added: Indias consumption expenditure stood at $1.92 trillion in 2018 growing at a CAGR of 7 per cent for the last nine years. Post lockdown, consumer discretionary spending is likely to remain subdued. In medium-term potential impact partial lockdown leasing: 50-60 per cent contraction in mall footfalls expected from pre-Covid-19 levels coupled with a significant down-tick in overall trading density.

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1.Apple is building a 192-room hotel on its billion-dollar Austin Campus (BD+C)"The hotel will give Apple more control over all aspects of where visitors to the Austin campus will stay."

2.Is CLT really a green solution? (BD+C)"CLT is intended to replace concrete and steel whose production accounts for about 13% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Wood in CLT panels pulled CO2 from the atmosphere, and that carbon should remain locked up as long as the building stands."

3.Will Remote Working Spell the Demise of the Office Sector? (National Real Estate Investor)"While some tech and banking firms are considering major shifts to permanent work-from-home policies, offices will still be around."

4.Biggest U.S. Mall Is Two Months Delinquent on $1.4 Billion Loan (Bloomberg, National Real Estate Investor)"The Mall of America missed two months of payments on a $1.4 billion CMBS loan."

5.Mechanics liens up 40% as COVID-19 pandemic disrupts industry (Construction Dive)"U.S. mechanics lien filings have risen significantly since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down all but the most essential projects in many states, according to notice and lien service provider Levelset. The number of liens filed through March 2020 jumped 40% since January."

6.ULI Forecasts Strong CRE Growth to Return in 2022 (Commercial Property Executive)"Despite numerous uncertainties, economic and real estate recovery should begin in the second half of 2020, followed by stronger growth in 2021 and significant growth in 2022, according to the Urban Land Institutes semi-annual Real Estate Economic Forecast.The three-year 'consensus'forecast measures 27 economic and real estate factors and represents the average of forecasts from 39 economists/analysts at 35 real estate organizations. The 17th semi-annual forecast was based on responses collected from May 1 to May 18."

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Trusted Business Insights answers what are the scenarios for growth and recovery and whether there will be any lasting structural impact from the unfolding crisis for the India Wood And Laminate Flooring market.

Trusted Business Insights presents an updated and Latest Study on India Wood And Laminate Flooring Market 2019-2026. The report contains market predictions related to market size, revenue, production, CAGR, Consumption, gross margin, price, and other substantial factors. While emphasizing the key driving and restraining forces for this market, the report also offers a complete study of the future trends and developments of the market.The report further elaborates on the micro and macroeconomic aspects including the socio-political landscape that is anticipated to shape the demand of the India Wood And Laminate Flooring market during the forecast period (2019-2029).It also examines the role of the leading market players involved in the industry including their corporate overview, financial summary, and SWOT analysis.

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Industry Insights, Market Size, CAGR, High-Level Analysis: India Wood And Laminate Flooring Market

The India wood and laminate flooring market size was estimated at USD 2.80 billion in 2019 and is expected to expand at a CAGR of 6.4% in terms of revenue, from 2020 to 2027. The introduction of engineered wood and laminates floors emerging as cost-effective alternatives to hardwood flooring is anticipated to fuel the growth. Superior durability and ease of maintenance are the key factors expected to propel the adoption of wood and laminate floorings in the country. Advancements in designing and printing technologies have facilitated the enhancements in aesthetic and textures of the products, creating growth opportunities for the market.Ease of installation and requirement of less-skilled labor of wood and laminate flooring as compared to conventional flooring materials such as ceramic tiles and stone tiles is expected to positively influence the growth. Moreover, it is also emerging as one of the most preferred DIY flooring materials in the country.

Natural timber species, such as teak, maple, oak, rosewood, walnut, and bamboo are use for producing wood and laminate flooring, thereby offering a high degree of versatility. These floorings are stain-resistant and require less amount of routine maintenance, thereby increasing the utility in commercial applications, especially in the hospitality sector.Factors, such as rising population and rapid growth of urbanization have propelled construction activities for corporate offices, retail spaces, educational facilities, government buildings, hotels, lodging spaces, medical and healthcare units, industrial spaces, and commercial utilities. This, in turn, is expected to positively influence the demand for wood and laminate and flooring.High penetration of ceramic tiles in the Indian market is expected to emerge as one of the major challenges to the demand for wood and laminates flooring. In addition, presence of tropical temperatures in the larger part of the country is expected to restrict the product penetration.

Product Insights of India Wood And Laminate Flooring Market

Wood flooring segment is expected to attain a higher share as compared to laminate floorings and is likely to expand at a CAGR of 6.6% in terms of revenue, over the forecast period. Products such as engineered, deck, and solid wood floorings are increasingly used in residential and commercial structures to enhance the aesthetics.Premium feel and aesthetics offered by the product are the major factors driving the demand. Engineering hardwood floorings are rapidly gaining popularity owing to ease of design customization, and low price as compared to solid wood floorings, thereby positively influencing the overall grwoth of the India wood and laminate flooring market.Laminate floorings segment is expected to witness a revenue-based CAGR of 5.4% over the forecast period, as the product is emerging as one of the low-cost alternatives to wood without compromising the aesthetics. In addition, recent advancements in printing technologies have facilitated the manufacturers to expand their design catalog thereby offering more design options to the customers.

Application Insights of India Wood And Laminate Flooring Market

In 2019, residential application accounted for the largest market share in 2019 and is anticipated to expand at a CAGR of 4.3% over the forecast period. The evolving concept of home decor in the country, backed by the rising discretionary income is positively influencing the overall market growth. India is also witnessing a notable rise in the construction of multi-family residential homes, such as residential buildings clusters and residential complexes, which in turn is expected to positively influence the demand for wood and laminate floorings. In addition, rising demand for a premium apartment in metropolitan areas is expected to drive the growth.

The commercial application segment is anticipated to register a notable CAGR of 6.3% over the forecast period, especially in the hospitality sector. Increasing construction activities of luxurious hotels in the country by multinational hotel chains is expected to positively influence the product demand. In recent years, the wood and laminate floorings have witnessed a surge in office building structures to provide versatility in convenient fittings for working environments. In addition, laminates offer natural graphics and custom designs produced to match the interior designs of the offices buildings.India Wood & Laminate Flooring Market Share InsightsVendors have been relying on partnerships with local distributors to expand their distribution capacities and to gain logistics support. Multinational companies from U.S. and Europe are enterning into partnerships with the local floor covering manufacturers and distributors to get a hold in the potential Indian market. Key participants with significant market share include Accord Floors, Armstrong World Industries, Avant, BVG, EGO Flooring, Eurotex, Greenlam Industries, Notion, Parkay Floors, Pergo, Quick-Step, Red Floor India, Surfaces India, Westwood, and WoodFloorsIndia.

Segmentations, Sub Segmentations, CAGR, & High-Level Analysis overview of India Wood And Laminate Flooring Market Research ReportThis report forecasts revenue growth at country level and provides an analysis of the latest industry trends in each of the sub-segments from 2019 to 2030. For the purpose of this study, this market research report has segmented the India wood and laminate flooring market report on the basis of product, and application:

Product Outlook (Volume, Million Sq. Meters; Revenue, USD Million, 2019 2030)

Wood Flooring

Laminate Flooring

Application Outlook (Volume, Million Sq. Meters; Revenue, USD Million, 2019 2030)

Residential

Commercial

Industrial

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In March, states undertook dramatic and unprecedented measures to stem the spread of the SARS2-COV virus. And yet COVID-19 has claimed 100,000 lives in the U.S. Was the lockdown effective? Economists frequently address such questions in our research.

Seeing the unseen, or the path that we did not choose, is the key here. It is the fundamental challenge of economics, as illustrated by Frederic Bastiats parable of the broken window. A shopkeeper must replace a broken window. A neighbor, perhaps offering solace, points out that if windows never got broken, the town glazier would starve. To avoid believing that broken windows boost the economy, we must recognize what the shopkeeper did not buy due to replacing the window.

Economists visualize the alternative paths we could choose. What would have happened if we didnt pass NAFTA, or hadnt bailed out banks during the financial crisis, or if we raised the minimum wage to $15 per hour? The term counterfactual refers to the unchosen path.

Economists devise principles for constructing counterfactuals. Scenarios must be logically coherent and consistent with the available evidence. We must avoid overly optimistic or pessimistic alternatives.

I have never estimated potential deaths in an outbreak of a disease but have researched tornado warnings and worst case tornadoes. Like most economists, I recognize the challenges in evaluating the lockdown.

Heres a first challenge. WalletHub has scored the strictness of states COVID protection measures. The average COVID fatality rate for the ten states with the strictest lockdown policies is 686 per million residents, versus a fatality rate of 68 for the ten least strict states, or one tenth as much. The three highest fatality rate states are among the ten strictest states.

Does this show that lockdowns cause COVID-19 deaths? No. The states suffering the worst outbreaks will impose the strictest measures. This is the endogeneity of policy problem. Ignoring this issue would lead us to conclude that hospitals cause death because many people die there. Controlling for policy endogeneity is a major research focus.

Another problem arises because states imposed policies and Americans realized that COVID-19 was a serious health threat at about the same time. The NBA suspended its season March 11, people sharply reduced travel around March 15, and the first state stay-at-home order took effect March 19. We have very few data points to tease out the effect of various policies from behavioral changes.

The United States was slow in rolling out testing for COVID-19, creating another challenge. If we compared the number of COVID-19 cases in the month before and after lockdowns to test effectiveness, the total would rise simply because many more people were tested. Can we detect a decline in infections during a period of expanding testing?

Even if Marchs lockdown was effective, the policies may not be effective in another time or place. Policy effects may not transfer for several reasons. For the COVID lockdown, an important factor is peoples willingness to comply. If Americans do not favor shutting down the economy for a second wave of the virus, stay-at-home orders may prove ineffective when reimplemented.

Researchers at Columbia University have evaluated the lockdown, based on computer simulations with travel data between cities and reported cases and deaths. The policies appear to have stemmed the illness; indeed implementation of the same policies two weeks earlier could have avoided 83 percent of U.S. deaths through May 3.

The sophisticated technical analysis here, I think, obscures a bigger point. Nonpharmaceutical interventions, as epidemiologists call such policies, do not prevent COVID-19 deaths. Americans who did not get COVID this spring can still get sick next fall. Only a vaccine or effective treatment will truly prevent deaths.

Whether school closings and stay-at-home orders slow an outbreak is an important and really challenging research question. This question must be answered before we compare economic costs and health benefits. Ultimately a lockdown is merely a delaying action. Delaying actions are only worth fighting as part of a larger strategy.

Daniel Sutter is the Charles G. Koch Professor of Economics with the Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University and host of Econversations on TrojanVision. The opinions expressed in this column are the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Troy University.

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Posted on May 24, 2020 at 1:20 pm by West Sider

A 21-year-old Upper West Side artist named Benjamin M. has been home during the quarantine and he decided to draw the view outside his bedroom window.

His view is dominated by the Schwab House, which is on the block bordered by 74th Street to the north, 73rd Street to the south, Riverside Drive to the west, and West End Avenue to the east. Maltz also drew the same view as if he was sitting in the same room in 1940, when the Schwab House was actually Charles Schwabs mansion and was known as Riverside. The comparison is striking. He explained more about his interest in drawing and history:

Hey all! My name is Benjamin, and I was born and raised on the Upper West Side. Ive always liked to draw throughout my 21 years, although recently during quarantine Ive been combining my artisticinclinations with my love for New York City history. Some time ago I learned that the Schwab House on 73rd-74th Streets between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue (across the street from my apartment) replaced the original Schwab House, a 75-room mansion built for businessman Charles Schwab at the turn of the twentieth century. With that in mind, here are two drawings I made of the view from my bedroom: The first features the current Schwab House (built 1948-50) and the second features the preceding structure (built 1902-06, demolished 1948) drawn amidst present surroundings (themselves relatively unchanged since the 1930s). Oh, to be able to see the river!

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Have you ever struggled with this dilemma should you keep the kitchen window open when you cook so the ventilation keeps your place smelling alright or should you keep the window closed so that pollution is now the spice accidentally added to your dish? This suspended kitchen lamp is an air purifier that keeps the space ventilated and particles controlled without needing to open your window!

We all have wanted to open the windows at some point when cooking not because of the smell but because of the particles that will be circulated everywhere otherwise. The Keling is a conceptual air purifier combined with a kitchen lamp. The bottom is designed to absorb the fine dust generated while cooking while the top emits purified air. The height is adjustable and replacing the filter is more convenient than cleaning the bulky exhausts. You can also sync it with your smartphone to get control lighting, fine dust, cooking, filter, and wind direction through the mobile app.

This sleek device keeps the outside polluted air away from your food while making sure you arent breathing in any pepper dust!

Designer: Kikang Kim

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As temperatures climb to summer-like heat, PG&E offers these tips to help customers stay safe and comfortable while saving energy at home.

Air conditioning accounts for more than 40 percent of summer residential energy usage so set your thermostat at 78 degrees in the summer, health permitting.

Cool down with a fan: Fans keep air circulating, allowing you to raise the thermostat a few degrees and stay just as comfortable while reducing your air conditioning costs.

Replace filters as needed: Dirty air filters make your air conditioner work harder to circulate air. By cleaning or replacing your filters monthly, you can improve energy efficiency and reduce costs.

Close shades in the summer: Sunlight passing through windows heats your home and makes your air conditioner work harder. Block the heat by keeping blinds closed on sunny days.

If nighttime or early morning temperatures are cool, turn off air conditioners and open windows to let in cool air and use a whole-house fan to draft hot air out of attics.

Turn off lights and TVs when not in use.

Plug all personal electronics into a power strip and simply turn off the power strip when electronics arent in use.

Run washers, dryers and dishwashers on full loads instead of partial loads. Hang dry clothes.

When not in use, unplug small appliances and electronics, like coffee makers and printers. Completely turn off TVs and game consoles.

Turn down the brightness of your TV. Factory settings are typically brighter than needed.Use smaller screens, like tablets, to stream media.

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With rising temperatures in California, here are some tips utility companies suggest to help minimize costs.

SACRAMENTO, California During the coronavirus pandemic, as millions of people are being asked to adhere to stay-at-home guidelines, you might be wondering if you're going to pay more for you electric bill next month.

Electric companies like SMUD, PG&E, and Roseville Electric Utility have payment-assistance programs that could help people who are struggling financially:

While those programs can help, there are other ways consumers can decrease their energy usage and bill. Here are simple ways to save energy and money while trying to stay cool while you stay home:

Add layers to windows

Adjust your thermostat

Cool down with a fan

Manage your electronics, appliances and lighting

Replace filters as needed

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