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IKEA Sweden to offer customers affordable heat pumps Heating and cooling of homes is an essential part of life at home and everyday life. Now, IKEA Sweden is offering customers an affordable heat pump solution that can support people’s current need to save money and live more sustainably through clean energy solutions. The pilot is part of the Clean Energy Service offer in Sweden, where the aim is to find scalable solutions that connect clean energy services into the totality of offering life at home expertise. “IKEA believes that a more sustainable life starts at home and by promoting different...

Nixu successfully pilots a Smart City digital service for the City of Jyväskylä together with IOXIO Nixu Corporation, press release August 18, 2022 at 09:00 a.m. EEST Nixu, together with IOXIO, has delivered a trusted data sharing pilot for the City of Jyväskylä. The pilot has been helping the City of Jyväskylä to establish an interoperable service infrastructure offered by a Smart City operator in the region. Nixu’s Identity and Access Management solution (IAM), together with IOXIO’s Dataspace service, has been successfully used in the first Smart City use case, which enables fully remote, easy, and secure control of access...

LandOpt Contractors Meet to Plot Inflation, Recession Strategies Idea sharing, networking highlights of annual field days PITTSBURGH, Aug. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- More than 70 LandOpt contractors, management teams and industry partners met in Nashville this month to share ideas and best practices on managing inflation, supply chain and labor shortages, as well as other challenges. LandOpt helps independent landscape contractors nationwide increase profitability, cash flow and revenue. Its annual General Manager’s Boot Camp and Operations Field Day were held in Nashville August 1-4. Hosted by LandOpt member The Greathouse Company, the theme for this year’s meetings was “Business...

Seduced by low prices, some builders are using wiring with risks of short circuits and fires. DepositPhotos Warnings issued over shoddy and substandard construction materials Wiring should bear the Mexican standard stamp and be bought from established retailers Lured by low prices, many construction companies are using electrical materials that are not authorized for use in Mexico, according to the head of a public-private electricity safety initiative. “We’ve been finding in recent years that important construction developers are using electrical conductors that aren’t authorized,” Mari Carmen Ruiz, coordinator of the Programa Casa Segura (Safe House Program), told the newspaper Milenio....

Calgary contractor uses AirTags to recover stolen construction materials Pierre Dumont says material shortage has led to rash of thefts Source: Paula Duhatschek · CBC News ·  Pierre Dumont owns Pierrefect Contracting Inc. He says AirTags helped him track down stolen items this week. (Submitted by Pierre Dumont) A Calgary contractor, fed up with having his building materials stolen, used Apple AirTags to track down more than $10,000 worth of exterior house trim that was lifted from a job site this week.  Pierre Dumont, owner of Pierrefect Contracting Inc., said a shortage of building material has led to a rash...