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Massachusetts drivers may want to practice pumping the brakes.

A bill to allow communities to install traffic enforcement cameras ones that would snag shots of a driver running a red light, for instance is heading to the state Senate floor for a debate next week.

If passed, An Act Relative to Automated Enforcement would pave the way for cameras to automatically fine drivers snapped speeding, blocking the box, making illegal right turns, breezing past school bus stop signs, or failing to stop on red.

An amended version has been put forth by the Senate Ways and Means Committee. The legislation is slated to go before the Senate on Feb. 27.

In many municipalities today, the crush of traffic makes it impossible for local police to adequately enforce the traffic laws, state Sen. Will Brownsberger, who filed the original bill, wrote on his website. Road safety is deteriorating as too many motorists push red lights, exceed speed limits on residential streets and block congested intersections. Automated enforcement using traffic cameras can help.

The Belmont Democrat says the bill addresses two main concerns that stem from automated traffic enforcement: that violations recorded by cameras would risk individual privacy and that cities and towns would use the system in unreasonable ways to make money.

Heres how the law would work in practice:

The law would grant each city and town the ability to decide whether to install a camera or cameras based off its respective population (more on that later).

Locations could include roads owned by municipalities or those owned by the state, in which case officials would need to obtain permission from state agencies, according to the bill. Local governments can also affix the gadgets to school buses.

Regardless, road signs must let drivers know theyre on camera.

So what exactly constitutes a ticket-able offense?

There are, however, a number of exceptions.

According to Brownsberger, instances that would not be a fineable offense include:

If a rental vehicle is involved in a violation, the company that owns the vehicle is required to provide officials with the information of the person who was renting it at the time so that he or she can be sent the ticket, according to the bill.

Fines generated by cameras would be capped at $25 per violation, according to the legislation even for speeding.

Since cameras would identify alleged violators by license plates, tickets would be sent to the owner of each vehicle. Notices would be required to be sent within two weeks of the violation and must include a photo of the incident and all relative information, including date, time, and location.

Ticketed drivers could either pay the fine or appeal it. They would have 60 days to contest the ticket.

If an owner acquires five unpaid or unresolved violations, the Registrar of Motor Vehicles cannot renew the vehicles registration, Brownsberger wrote.

Not every city or town would be able to install a camera in their community.

The bill mandates that municipalities could only install one camera per every 2,500 residents, which means that, in the states smallest towns, cameras would not be allowed at all. School bus cameras are not included in the limit.

Furthermore, the law would require local leaders to approve each camera and its location only after theyve held a public hearing. Cities and towns must also roll out a public awareness campaign at least 30 days before a camera is installed, according to the bill.

Brownsberger writes that cameras can only charge drivers for the violations outlined in the law, and municipalities must transfer any net profits from the use of cameras to the state and submit an annual report to the Department of Transportation on the use of cameras in their respective communities.

The bill very tightly limits the exposure of motorists and includes other provisions to assure that municipalities will not overuse the new tool, he wrote.

According to Brownsberger, violations cannot create surcharges on a vehicle owners insurance, and also cannot become part of the owners Registry of Motor Vehicles record.

He also says the legislation is crafted to protect individual privacy through several mechanisms.

Cameras, for example, can only take photos of the rear of a vehicle and, to the extent practicable, additional efforts will be made to avoid capturing identifiable images of the occupants or contents of the vehicle, Brownsberger wrote.

Information derived from the camera may not be used by the camera vendor for any purpose other than enforcing violations, he added.

Photographs cannot be used in any court proceeding outside of a related ticket hearing without a court order. The images would also not be considered public record and, within 48 hours after a ticket is disposed, the snapshots would be destroyed.

Pictures could only be taken when a violation occurs.

When Brownsberger was pushing for automated traffic enforcement in 2018, he wrote that the concept could reduce vehicle crashes, but said it also faced legal and political barriers.

Implementation of automated enforcement requires state legislation to define a new procedure for attaching fines to violations, he wrote on his website at the time. The legal problem is that, in the absence of an officer pulling someone over, it is impossible to know who was driving the vehicle. So, we would have to hold the vehicle owner responsible, but there is no current mechanism to do that for moving violations.

Still, Brownsberger recently pointed to the fact the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention see these mechanisms as a public health intervention.

He also contended that with limited police resources millions of traffic violations go undetected or ignored every day on the roads of the Commonwealth.

People concerned about over-enforcement and the big brother accumulation of data often also raise questions about how effective the tools are in changing behavior, Brownsberger wrote in 2018. In my mind, the effectiveness depends on practical decisions made in the roll-out. Where are the cameras placed? To what extent do drivers have advance warning? It seems beyond reasonable dispute that a good implementation with fair enforcement goals could change behavior in positive ways.

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Two students, juniors Meg Davis and Rhada Dave, have developed a device to measure water usage in dorm showers. They used an $1,800 grant from the Sustainability, Innovation and Engagement Fund (SIEF) to create a prototype for their project.

The two began envisioning their creation back in spring 2018. After brainstorming ideas for an assignment in their Global Challenges, Scientific Solutions class, Davis, a biology major, jokingly suggested they measure water usage and shower times. Two years later, after countless hours of observation, research and tracking the water flow through shower pipes, the students are soon debuting their product in the Commonwealth Honors College dorm showers. The preliminary data collected suggests that they should be able to reduce water usage in the dorms by about 42 percent.

The testing will take place on three floors, using one floor as a control with no form of intervention in the showers, a second floor with 10 passive intervention posters and a third with 10 active intervention devices. The passive intervention poster is visible to studentsand displays how much water the average shower uses. The active intervention device has a button that students push to start a visual timer tracking the length of the shower and how much water is being used. All 30 showers (passive, active and control) have sensors that are discrete, logging how much water runs throughout the shower onto a microSD card.

Dave, a student on the neuroscience track, says, I thought it was pretty interesting to see if one device could actually have some degree of behavioral change and have that impact a third part, like water consumption.

Over the next couple of weeks, Davis and Dave hope to begin installing the devices in the bathrooms, where they will remain until the end of the Spring 2020 semester. The students hope to continue this project their senior year as a part of their iCons senior thesis.

Editors note: This is part of a series of items about the latest green idea projects around campus to receive grants from the Sustainability, Innovation and Engagement (SIEF) Fund. Launched in 2013, the SIEF program aims to foster sustainability by financially supporting students, faculty and staff who propose projects to promote a greener campus.

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Like many couples renting in highly desirable and increasingly expensive parts of Brooklyn, Eric Mailaender and Emily Lowe Mailaender waited too long to buy. But with their children, Stella, 9, and Bo, 6, in school in their Cobble Hill neighborhood, they felt tethered to the area.

It was their search for something affordable that landed them in South Slope, uncomfortably close to the Prospect Expressway, which Mr. Mailaender sometimes refers to as my nemesis.

But the circa-1890 house they bought for $1.48 million in 2018 was a gem, a shockingly intact brownstone the likes of which you dont often find these days, he said.

So what if it was near the junction of the Prospect and Gowanus Expressways? Unlike many houses in the area, it hadnt been repeatedly updated and modernized. And as the principal of Resistance Design, a Brooklyn architecture and design firm that emphasizes affordability, Mr. Mailaender, 55, welcomed a chance to do a project on his own terms.

Ms. Lowe Mailaender, 41, a senior vice president at the public-relations agency Rogers & Cowan PMK, was happy to give him free rein. My main request was for something that was fun and not so serious, she said. I didnt want to feel like I was living in my parents house.

Mr. Mailaenders idea was to preserve where it was possible and update where it was essential all on a budget of about $300,000, which for any brownstone would present a challenge.

He embraced the quirkiness of the narrow, 16-foot lot. Most people would have taken the middle wall out, he said, referring to the wall dividing the center hall from the living spaces. But I didnt want to open it up partially for money, but also because I really wanted to retain the original layout.

So instead of large, multifunctional spaces, they wound up with a series of smaller, more intimate rooms. To keep costs down further, the work was done to high standards but not too high.

What I basically told the contractors was I wanted them to correct the big offenses, Mr. Mailaender said. So the boards in the parlor floor that had exposed nails or gaps were replaced by others salvaged from the second floor, which got new flooring.

Repairing millwork and plasterwork can be costly, but Mr. Mailaender found ways to save money there, too. Instead of stripping the wood, an expensive process, he repaired wood surfaces by working a filler into cracks with a trowel, to smooth out some of the age without making them look brand-new. And original plaster details were rescued without replastering entire surfaces: The ceiling medallion on the main floor, for example, was cut out of the plaster ceiling, remounted onto Sheetrock and replaced (along with a custom light fixture he designed).

The upstairs received some updates, including new door hardware and bedroom doors, and a slight reconfiguration that involved moving the bathroom inside the master suite.

Downstairs, modern touches include unexpectedly bold floor tiles in the kitchen and wallpaper in the parlor-floor bathroom, which Ms. Lowe Mailaender chose from options her husband presented.

But much of the budget went toward things no one can see, like work on the foundation, concealing new plumbing inside cleverly designed soffits, and installing modern heating and cooling systems. Mr. Mailaender also replaced the old windows with heavily laminated, double-paned ones, to dampen sound from the highway, and injected foam insulation into gaps around windows and doors. He installed shutters to block the world outside, leaving a view of only the sky.

The result is a home that is intentionally less modern, less open and less perfect, Mr. Mailaender said, than what many designers are doing these days. And thats fine with him. His concept of space has come a long way from his bachelor days, when he lived in a big loft in Midtown Manhattan a ridiculous amount of space for one person, he said.

There is something to the intimacy and scale of being squished in, he said. This is the right scale for a four-person family. All the spaces work just right. Weve enjoyed rediscovering this traditional scale of house. Its something that works very, very well.

And his relationship with the highway? Im at relative peace with it.

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I wonder if it even occurs to young artists in the globalist, pluralist present to try to stake out a spot in art history by changing the way history goes. Donald Judd, pioneer of the 1960s movement called Minimalism (the label wasnt his; he hated it), thought about this constantly. He wanted, right from the start, to be a big art deal, a super influencer. Long before his death in 1994, at 65, he was.

Major American and European museums owned his work. His signature sculptural image a no-frills, no-content wood or metal box had not only been adapted by other artists, but also riffs on it became a fixture of international architecture and design. To some degree, we all lived in Judd-world, and still do.

Yet over time, Judd himself seems to have retreated from view. The survey of 70 works that opens at the Museum of Modern Art on March 1 is the first in New York in more than 30 years. Its a fine show: carefully winnowed, persuasively installed, just the right size. Its one-word title, Judd, suits the artists view of his wished-for, worked-for place in history: so assured as to need neither qualifiers nor explanations.

The big, and maybe only surprise, particularly for Judd skeptics, is how really beautiful some of the art looks, how poetic, and mysterious. These were qualities that Judd himself, at least when he was starting out, would not have wanted applied to his work, which in the 1950s was painting. Beauty and mystery belonged to the art of yesterday. His was an art of today, a today that he kept close tabs on as a busy New York art critic in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Writing led him to network widely in the contemporary art world. It allowed him to observe its career-making machinery in action, and to consider how to position himself within it. His reviews listy, pontificating, proscriptive were a form of self-advertising that also served as a useful means of self-critique.

Through evaluating the work of hundreds of other artists, many his generational peers, he came to see that his own paintings two examples introduce the MoMA show were not, and would never be, strong enough to take him in the history-making direction he aspired to. He had to go another, less conventional way, and around 1960, he began to make work that was like no other art around.

It was three-dimensional, so it wasnt painting but, he claimed, it wasnt sculpture either. He called the new works specific objects, and left it at that. He titled all of these objects Untitled, and insisted they were devoid of metaphors, personal data or real-world references all the lures, in other words, that art traditionally uses to draw us in.

The earliest of these experimental objects look pretty funky. From 1961 comes what is essentially an all-black oil painting with a baking pan sunk into its surface. An oil-paint-mixed-with-sand picture, dated to the following year, is colored allover scarlet red and has a yellow plastic O a found bit of commercial signage sideways in its center. Almost every subsequent piece for the next few years is the same red. Judd said he chose the color because it made edges look crisp. He didnt mention that it also shouted Look at me!

For some observers, the most interesting thing Judd was doing at this early point was playing with space, in unusual ways. A largish 1963 work composed of iron flanges (Hardware store finds? Junk shop rescues?) attached to a flat wood panel, simultaneously hugs the wall, painting-style, and curves out into the room. And a smaller wall piece from the same year offers a preview of further complexities to come.

About the size of carpenters plane, it consists of a shelflike unit holding a length of square pipe. They seem to form a single dense, even leaden unit. Yet two small holes cut into the shelf hint at interior space, and a view from the side reveals the pipe to be hollow and open at both ends. Suddenly the piece feels light and buoyant. Air is moving through. You can almost feel it.

Then a more radical development arrived: Judd stopped making hands-on art. Most of the objects in the retrospectives first gallery were constructed and painted by Judd, with assistance from his father, who was a carpenter. Then in 1964, he hired a commercial sheet-metal workshop in Manhattan called Bernstein Brothers to fabricate his work, and it would continue to do so for years.

This came at a time when Abstract Expressionism that most touchy-feely of styles, remained the model of what serious art should be. Judd took critical heat for shifting production from his studio to what people assumed to be a factory. But in reality, his creative involvement with his art stayed intense. All the work was based on his detailed drawings. (Several are on view.) Indeed, drawing designs became one of his chief occupations. In addition, he chose the material, much of it industrial (metals, Plexiglas, acrylic paint), to be used for new work, and he often oversaw, or consulted on details and production. For a hands-off artist, he was very much on the job.

It is the art produced by this combination of authorial presence and absence that makes up the bulk of a retrospective that spans more than 30 years. In the second gallery, where industrial fabrication starts, we get a full range of what will be repeated Judd forms. There are round-ended metal wall pieces shaped like bolster pillows, and sets of thin, squared-off uprights reminiscent of high-jump bars. The little 1963 shelf-and-tube piece reappears in larger, more elaborate versions, its horizontal air shaft intact. And there are boxes, many, open and closed, foursquare and flat, single or multiple, floor-bound or attached to the wall and stacked up, one over the other, high.

A number of these objects come with what might be called special effects, not necessarily noticeable on a quick pass-through. A wall-climbing stack of stainless steel and yellow Plexiglas boxes generates a mini Niagara of light. Another, composed of gleaming copper radiates a tawny mandorla. A tall stack of boxes, its units blue-painted iron, casts shadows, and gives its side of the gallery a twilight tinge. Judds supposedly unexpressive art has many moods.

It also has an interior life, or lives. A floor box built of opaque honey-gold Plexiglas appears to have a dark form sealed inside. A row of four aluminum boxes spaced close together across the third gallery looms like a barrier wall. But peer into either end and youll find that the boxes are hollow and form a long corridor colored a subaqueous blue.

And theres the complex language of materials to savor, most industrially sourced. In the 1970s, commercial plywood caught Judds eye and he used it in a suite of boxy sculptures that look like a cross between shipping containers and anchorite cells. In addition, the unpainted sheets of wood chosen are rich with organic patterning: flamelike grains, knots like eyes. They exemplified an aesthetic of accident he relished.

In the 1980s he temporarily redirected his fabrication jobs to a firm in Switzerland. He simultaneously introduced a rainbow of harlequin colors forest green, marigold, pink to aluminum sculptures, as if circling back to the kooky roseate punch of his earliest objects, the ones that came from his own hands.

By the time his late work appeared, he had long since assumed identities he both did and didnt want. He had become a textbook historical figure, but also part of a past that many young artists either didnt know about or didnt need. When he died, elements he had tried to scour from his art narrative, personality, emotion were being re-embraced. Much of his late writing feels angry and bitter, partly, I suspect, because he knew he was no longer shaping the news.

He still isnt on any center stage. As a model for young artists now in an art world that acknowledges multiple histories and has zero interest in isms he seems locked in another time, as do many of his contemporaries who came of age more than a half-century ago. Simply put, they lived on a smaller art planet, one small enough to have faith in a Next Big Step. In the market-managed present, its hard to imagine ever thinking that way.

But its good to have him back in the spotlight at MoMA and elsewhere. (Several smaller New York exhibitions have been scheduled to complement the retrospective show.) And its nice to report that in important ways he still is news. His art once thought to be too severe to be beautiful (or maybe to be art at all) can now be seen to offer pleasures, visual and conceptual, that any audience with open eyes, can relate to, and that young artists can even maybe shoot for. Judd the critic once said that for art to matter, it needs only to be interesting. His is.

Judd

Sunday through July 11 (opens to members Feb. 27), Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, Manhattan; 212-708-9400, moma.org.

Judd Around Town

Several galleries are offering shows related to the artist.

Judd in Two Dimensions: Fifteen Drawings at Mignoni, 960 Madison Avenue, Manhattan; through March 21; mignoniart.com.

Judd Foundation: In conjunction with the MoMA retrospective, Judds former loft and working space will operate an expanded visit schedule from March 1 July 11, at 101 Spring Street. It will also display 20 woodcut prints that Judd made in 1992 that have never been exhibited in New York. juddfoundation.org.

Donald Judd: Artwork: 1980 at Gagosian, 522 West 21st Street, Manhattan, March 12-April 11); gagosian.com.

Donald Judd: Artworks 1970-1994 at David Zwirner, 525 and 533 West 19th Street. Manhattan, April 18 to June 26; davidzwirner.com.

Salon 94 will be hosting a presentation of Donald Judd Furniture at the New York edition of TEFAF, May 8-12 at the Park Avenue Armory.

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The Many Moods and Pleasures of Judds Objects - The New York Times

Abergwyngregyn was the home of the last Welsh Prince of Wales,Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, who led a revolt against the English but over 700 years later its at the forefront of a green revolution.

The villages old three-storey water mill is powered by an air source heating system which keeps the ground floor caf warm as toast and also heats the second floor, home to a number of village organizations, and the upper level where the snooker club has two tables.

It has been installed by Denbigh-based, Hafod Renewables, whose Managing Director, David Jones, said, Its a big area to heat but air-source works perfectly here because the system provides a constant comfortable heat for the building all year round.

Its reliability and the hassle-free controls are an added help for the users of the building too.

The air source heating made the gas system redundant which means the building produces no emissions so its safer, cleaner and easier to manage as they only have one utility to look after.

The gas supply has been disconnected which saves the centre over 100 a year in standing charges and the community will also receive 600 a year for 20 years from the Renewable Heating Initiative which will pay for the scheme.

Jones added, Abergwyngregyn is really leading the way with this approach as the UK Government shifts towards renewable fuels.

From 2025 the Government has said gas boilers will be banned in new homes and renewables, such as air and ground source and solar, will be the fuels of choice.

Its a remarkable village and they have big plans to become even greener in future with grants for local people to fit their own renewable systems.

It adds to the green credentials of Abergwyngregyn which already boasts a 1.3 million hydro-electric plant on the Afon Anafon which generates 200,000 from the National Grid which pays off the schemes loan repayments, pays rent to the landowners, provides social dividends to shareholders and provides 30,000 a year for the local community.

The village is best known for the spectacular 120-foot Aber Falls, one of the highest waterfalls in Wales, but Jacqui Bugden, one of the Directors of ARC, the Abergwyngregyn Regeneration Company, believes its green credentials are also putting it on the map.

She said, ARC manages the old mill as a community center and also two car parks because the waterfall attracts 100,000 visitors a year which keeps the caf busy and the center is very well used by local organizations from the tai chi group to the quilters, crafters and gardeners.

We wanted to make the building more sustainable and a survey showed the best option was to get rid of the old gas boiler and install air source and we were impressed by Hafod Renewables who asked the right questions and came up with the best solution.

Jones added, Abergwyngregyn is in a narrow valley which makes solar systems uneconomic but air source is a perfect solution and the sophisticated systems available now can easily be fitted to old properties.

They dont have much visual impact either and they can easily generate enough power to provide a home with a fully independent heating system that can easily give room temperatures up to 21C and heat water to 65C.

It operates like a fridge in reverse but the coolant in it has a boiling point of -40C so as long as its warmer than that then it can extract energy from the air it sucks in and heat the property.

Hafod has installed over 70 air source heat pumps in the past 12 months including one to provide underfloor heating to keep the abandoned dogs warm at the North Clwyd Animal Rescue charitys kennels near Holywell.

The company, which recently moved to its own carbon-free headquarters at Tremeirchion in the Vale of Clwyd, now employs 11 staff and has become a key player in North Wales in the installation of solar and non-solar systems.

Caption: David Jones of Hafod Renewables at the villages Old Mill community center, now powered by renewable energy.Picture by Mandy Jones Photography

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A recipe, a smell, a sound or a roofline can act as talismans of memories, triggering the senses and conjuring the delight of play.

Wenatchee Valley College Professor Natalie Dotzauer has filled the MAC Gallery with sculptural objects, or fragments of them, designed to do just that.

The interactive exhibit, What We Take, opened Feb. 18 and runs through March 20.

Natalie Dotazuer's "Sweet Spot"features molasses-stained paper with sugar lumps and royal icing.

This installation is generated to trigger the senses and thoughts of nostalgia, as the act of play and sugar sensations are pulled together in unusual combinations, she said. I am attempting to unfurl the physical nature of each material, the visceral act of understanding and conjuring the delight of play.

Memories can take many forms.

I feel as though memories have some kind of personhood with eternal feelings, traces of lessons, survival instincts, reminders, sweet, nave, forever caught in a pageant of my deepest regrets or fondest regards. But where can I find a memory? Where do they exist? When do they exist? she said. At times, a name or an old photo can trigger a thought. A smell, a walk through an old neighborhood can bring back such vivid memories. Its as if we pass our younger selves in the same space. I exist both as the thought and the person remembering.

Dotzauer said she is struck by the impermanent nature of remembering.

Some of the strongest moments of my life and memories of these times are not pure joy or sadness; they are a wild combination of bliss and fear, sweetness and sorrow. I want to hold onto the places of these moments, visit them like monuments and hold them like relics, she said. However, this physicality is a mere talisman of the memory I am left with a memory and a desire, a recipe or a roofline.

Am Having a Good Time- (Detail), 2008. Found wood, sawdust and wiring assembled with hand printed wallpaper and postcard.

Am Having a Good Time- (Detail), 2008. Found wood, sawdust and wiring assembled with hand printed wallpaper and postcard.

Dotzauer teaches sculpture, drawing, art appreciation and more at WVC. Her multifaceted works are often interactive installations that engage viewer participation in multi-sensory experiences.

An artist reception is planned for 5-7 p.m. March 6, part of the First Friday ArtWalk events.

The MAC Gallery is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday. For information go to wwrld.us/2N4SRuG.

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JOHNSTOWN The Kingsboro Lumber Co. and the HFM Career and Technical Center have formed a new partnership inviting building material manufacturers and wholesalers to share their insights into the construction industry directly with students.Recently, HFM construction technology instructor Steve Derwin approached Donald Wicksell, the president and CEO of Kingsboro Lumber in Gloversville, for help arranging visits by industry professionals to the Career & Technical Center. The first of what will be a series of visits occurred Feb. 12 when Scott Dewsbury, the local territory sales manager for Reeb Millwork the largest distributor of doors on the East Coast spoke with the construction students about his career, the millwork industry, door material and construction, and more.Derwin, Dewsbury and Wicksell also spoke with the students about the critical role suppliers play for construction contractors and the careers available in the field.The whole country needs people to supply building materials. Its really a great opportunity for a career, Dewsbury said, noting that many in the supply industry are now nearing retirement and job seekers with construction experience, such as CTE students, would have a leg up when entering the field.Reeb Millwork is a family-owned company with five millwork facilities that work with manufacturers to assemble and ship pre-hung exterior and interior doors. Their smallest facility, which is in Syracuse, ships approximately 1,400 doors a day.Dewsbury explained the wide variety of professionals needed by companies such as Reeb including people who work in quoting and estimating, shipping and receiving, logistics, warehousing and sales. The company also requires field technicians for after-sale service.There is a dire need for door and window installers, Dewsbury said, explaining the technical expertise needed to properly install modern doors and tighten the building envelope.The HFM Construction program will continue to work with Kingsboro Lumber and bring in more material representatives to speak to students. Future topics planned include windows and insulation.Partnerships with local businesses and professionals have always been an important part of Career and Technical Education, and we thank Kingsboro Lumber for helping to expand these relationships, HFM Career and Technical Center Director Jay A. DeTraglia said.During his visit, Dewsburys final advice for students entering the workforce was to look beyond just getting a job and to focus on long-term career goals.Open to local high school juniors and seniors, construction technology is a two-year program that stresses career preparation in the building trades.Through building projects on the HFM campus, students are exposed to a variety of construction trades including residential construction, blueprint reading and estimating, building materials and tools, surveying, foundations, floor wall and roof systems, insulation, window and door installation, home electrical wiring, and energy use analysis. Particular attention is paid to modern framing techniques and green building strategies.

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Optical Fiber & Plastic Conduit Market in Telecom & IT by Product: Global Opportunity Analysis and Industry Forecast, 2018-2026" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

According to this report the global optical fiber and plastic conduit market was valued at $4,151.2 million in 2018, and is projected to reach $11,779.9 million by 2026, growing at a CAGR of 20.6% from 2019 to 2026.

The optical fiber industry is expected to provide promising growth prospects throughout the forecast period, owing to increase in investments and research undertaken by prominent optical fiber cable manufacturers in the industry to develop and upgrade the fiber optics technology application area. In addition, the plastic conduit systems market denotes a promising picture for future growth of efficient cable management. The recent business scenario has witnessed an upsurge in usage of cable conduit systems across commercial and industrial constructions. Companies are now adopting efficient techniques to provide consumers with innovated and cost-efficient products.

The rising demand for single-mode optical fibers is expected to grow during the forecast period, as the world is facing a shortage of single-mode cabling. The main reason for this fiber shortage is the rise in fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network projects, which had increased the fiber consumption by 46% of the whole world. Moreover, single-mode optical fiber cable offers numerous benefits, which includes high attenuation and dispersion, greater data-transmitting capabilities, usability within high-speed & large capacity networks, and others, which have been boosting its adoption among the end users. Furthermore, ongoing efforts to increase the penetration of telecom services in the emerging countries of the Asia-Pacific region are attributed to the increasing demand for single-mode cable in the region, which is opportunistic for the optical fiber and plastic conduit market.

Factors such as widespread implementation of 5G, increasing adoption of fiber to the home connectivity, emergence of internet of things, and growing demand for highly secure and safe wiring systems are anticipated to be major drivers of the global optical fiber and plastic conduits market. However, high installation cost and complications in installation of optical fiber and plastic conduits, growing demand for wireless communication system, and increasing prices of raw materials act as major drivers hampering the market growth globally. Furthermore, technological advancements in fiber optic cables and plastic conduits, rising investments in optical fiber cable network infrastructure, and emergence of cable in conduit system offers lucrative opportunities to the market growth globally.

Key Topics Covered:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Executive Summary

2.1. Key Findings

2.1.1. Top Impacting Factors

2.1.2. Top Investment Pockets

2.2. Cxo Perspective

Chapter 3: Market Overview

3.1. Market Definition And Scope

3.2. Key Forces Shaping The Optical Fiber And Plastic Conduit Market

3.3. Optical Fiber And Plastic Conduits Key Player Positioning, 2018

3.4. Market Dynamics

3.4.1. Drivers

3.4.1.1. Widespread Implementation of 5G

3.4.1.2. Increase In Adoption of Fiber To The Home (Ftth) Connectivity

3.4.1.3. Emergence of Internet of Things (IoT)

3.4.1.4. Demand For Highly Secure And Safe Wiring System

3.4.2. Restraints

3.4.2.1. High Installation Cost of Optical Fiber And Conduits

3.4.2.2. Growth In The Wireless Communication Systems

3.4.3. Opportunities

3.4.3.1. Rise In Technological Advancements In Optical Fiber And Plastic Conduits

3.4.3.2. Increase In Investments In Optical Fiber Cable (ofc) Network Infrastructure

3.4.3.3. Emerging Trends Toward Cable-In-Conduits Systems

3.5. Optical Fiber Vs Plastic Conduits In It & Telecom Industry-Trend Analysis

Chapter 4: Optical Fiber Market, By Mode

4.1. Overview

4.2. Single Mode

4.2.1. Key Market Trends, Growth Factors, And Opportunities

4.2.2. Market Size And Forecast, By Region

4.2.3. Market Analysis, By Country

4.3. Multimode

4.3.1. Key Market Trends, Growth Factors, And Opportunities

4.3.2. Market Size And Forecast, By Region

4.3.3. Market Analysis, By Country

Chapter 5: Optical Fiber Market, By Product Type

5.1. Overview

5.2. Glass Optical Fiber

5.2.1. Key Market Trends, Growth Factors, And Opportunities

5.2.2. Market Size And Forecast, By Region

5.2.3. Market Analysis, By Country

5.3. Plastic Optical Fiber

5.3.1. Key Market Trends, Growth Factors, And Opportunities

5.3.2. Market Size And Forecast, By Region

5.3.3. Market Analysis, By Country

Chapter 6: Optical Fiber Market, By Connectivity

6.1. Overview

6.2. Fiber-To-The-Home (Ftth)

6.2.1. Key Market Trends, Growth Factors, And Opportunities

6.2.2. Market Size And Forecast, By Region

6.2.3. Market Analysis, By Country

6.3. Fiber-To-The-Business (Fttb)

Chapter 7: Optical Fiber Market, By Industry Vertical

7.1. Overview

7.2. Telecom & It

7.3. Public Sector

7.4. Healthcare

7.5. Energy & Utilities

7.6. Aerospace & Defense

7.7. Manufacturing

7.8. Others

Chapter 8: Plastic Conduit Market In It And Telecom Industry, By Product

8.1. Overview

8.2. Rigid Conduits

8.3. Flexible Conduits

Chapter 9: Optical Fiber And Plastic Conduits Market, By Region

9.1. Overview

9.2. North America

9.3. Europe

9.4. Asia Pacific

9.5. LAMEA

Chapter 10: Optical Fiber Cable:-Company Profiles

10.1. Corning Incorporated

10.2. Emtelle UK Ltd.

10.3. Fujikura Ltd.

10.4. Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd.

10.5. Hexatronic Group Ab

10.6. Sterlite Technologies Ltd.

10.7. The Kuhkenah Network (K-Net) Services

10.8. The Prysmian Group

Chapter 11: Plastic Conduits:- Company Profiles

11.1. Atkore International

11.2. Akg Group

11.3. Cantex Inc.

11.4. Dura-Line Holding, Inc.

11.5. Prime Conduit

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The Sennheiser Sound Academy has introduced the schedule for its UK trainings for the first half of 2020

Duncan Proctor 12 hours ago

Sennheiser Sound Academy training courses are now available online for the first half of 2020. Run by Sennheisers Andrew Lillywhite and Joe Mahoney from the Customer Development & Application Engineer (CDAE) team, the courses are designed for RF techs, AV integrators and technicians, sound engineers, designers or consultants, live event professionals, equipment resellers and apprentices, who want to further their understanding of the specific area of each course.

A wide variety of courses are now available including Wireless Mics Monitoring Essentials, held at Sennheiser UK offices in Marlow as well as at Arnolfini in Bristol; RF Best Practice for Production and Touring course in London; Wireless Audio for AV Integrators, held in Marlow and London; Audio For Meeting Rooms & Conferencing, taking place in London and Scotland; and, finally, Wireless Mics & Monitoring: The Master Class, held in Marlow.

This course is for new and existing users of wireless microphones and in-ear monitor systems who wish to further their understanding of the area for the benefit of their career. It will provide the skills and confidence to operate multichannel wireless systems, covering acoustics and electrotechnology, wireless mics and monitoring, antenna technology, microphone technology, frequency management and wireless monitoring.

A hands-on training day for rental companies and sound engineers looking to make their productions more professional, reliable and RF efficient. The course will cover topics such as Practices when planning RF; Preparing for the 2020 clearance of the 700 MHz band; Antenna distribution and wiring options; Avoiding loss through cable and addressing interference issues.

A practical day of training for audio/visual integrators, focusing on Sennheisers wireless audio portfolio including UHF and digital wireless mics, antenna setup, streaming audio solutions and more.

A detailed and practical day of training and product familiarisation on Sennheisers audio for meeting rooms portfolio, targeted at business and education campus AV teams and system architects.

This course is designed for existing users of wireless microphones and in ear monitoring systems who have already completed the Basic Wireless Mics and Monitoring Course. This intensive two-day course is based at our Marlow Headquarters and consists of one full day of theoretical tutored eLearning and one full day of practical workshops. Due to the practical nature of the workshops this course is restricted to a maximum of eight participants.

Each course offers a combination of classroom training, which includes hands-on practical modules and eLearning.

The majority are free trainings. Registered members of the of the Association of Sound Designers (ASD), Institute of Professional Sound (IPS), Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS), Association of British Theatre Technicians (ABTT), Guild of TV Camera Professionals (GTC), Learning & Teaching Spaces Managers Group (LTSMG), Production Services Association (PSA) and PLASA all get 50% discount on the paid-for courses. Sennheiser also offers a 20% discount for those aged under 24 years.

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Power Distribution Cables Market

Power Distribution Cables Market Research Report by Installation (Overhead, Underground & Submarine), by Voltage (Medium, Low), by Users (Industrial, Residential, Commercial) and by Region Global Forecast to 2022

Power Distribution Cables Market Overview

The global power distribution cables market is anticipated to attain decent growth over the forthcoming forecast period. Market Research Future (MRFR) confirms the previous statement in its recently released report, wherein it mentions that the global market is projected to attain a compound annual growth rate of 6% during the assessment period.

Power distribution cables are most commonly used for delivering electric power. It is an electrical cable that is referred to as the assembly of one or more electrical conductors and is typically held together with an overall sheath. In order to transmit the electrical power the assembly is used. These cables carry electricity from the transmission tower and delivers the same to individual consumers. These cables can be installed by burying it into the ground, as permanent wiring within buildings, run overhead, or even exposed.

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The team at MRFR went above and beyond to conduct a thorough study and has garnered various key findings to gain a prominent understanding of the market. Most notably, the company mentions that owing to the increasing need and demand for electricity, there has been an increasing number of power transmission networks around the world. This is subsequently helping boost the distribution cables market towards growth and expansion. Some of the other key factors identified by MRFR as the drivers of the market are the increasing proliferation of the infrastructure and construction sector, rapid-paced industrialization and shifting urbanization, and the surging demand for renewable energy.

Power Distribution Cables Market Segmentation

The globalpower distribution cables marketsegmentation is based upon three key components for the ease of understanding the report in a far precise manner.

By voltage, the market distributes into low and medium voltage.

By users, the market comprises residential, commercial, and industrial.

By installation, the market is broken down into underground, overhead, and submarine. This market category is spearheaded by the overhead segment and is further expected to keep its position at the top and lead the market.

Regional Analysis

The global power distribution cables market is regionally distributed among the following regions: Asia Pacific, Latin America, North America, Europe, and the Middle East & Africa.

Geographically, the Asia Pacific region holds a major share of the global market. The region contributes significantly to the overall welfare of the Asia Pacific region and is expected to continue its stay at the top in the forthcoming years of the forecast period. MRFR identifies that the fast-paced industrialization, a growing renewable industry, and various construction & infrastructural activities to be some of the key factors expected to boost the global market towards heightened growth. The global market for power distribution cables is led by Asia Pacific and followed up by North America and Europe. Both the North American and Europe regional markets are expected to grow at a healthy pace during the forecast period and contribute significantly to the overall growth of the power distribution cables market.

Competitive Landscape

The global power distribution cable market includes a number of key players. The names mentioned in the statement are SAS Brockskes (Germany), Brugg Kabel AG (Switzerland), Prysmian Group (Italy), General Cable Corporation (U.S.), CAE Groupe (France), ConCab Kabel Ltd. (Germany), Spina Group (Italy), Cavotec (Switzerland), and others. The players in the market are continuously innovating, applying new strategies, and investing in R&D activities to cement their standings and edge past their competitors.

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