The U.S. Department of Labor announced the award of $50 million in Apprenticeship Building America grant funding for registered apprenticeship hubs. Registered apprenticeship hubs help employers design, develop and deliver programs and support the establishment, scaling and expansion of registered apprenticeship programs in new and fast-growing industries and occupations.

Handyman Connection – North America’s premier business liaison connecting customers to local craftsmen in their home community – is announcing plans to continue the brand’s expansion in the Tar Heel State by opening its newest territory in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

With over 1,000 years of collective industry experience among them, Ram Board, Surface Shields, Trimaco and Antinox are united under one parent brand: Icon Protection.

The U.S. Department of Labor announced the award of $3.4 million in funding to help recruit, train and retain more women in quality pre-apprenticeship and registered apprenticeship programs.

Sto Corp. has introduced updated Building Information Modeling assets for all Sto color collections. With the new BIM assets, architects, designers, general contractors and other users can easily and completely integrate every Sto color palette directly within their preferred BIM app, capturing the color metadata within the project’s complete documentation.

The Michigan State Historic Preservation Office announced today that the city of Pontiac in Oakland County has been accepted to the Certified Local Government program, following confirmation from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Clearinghouse Community Development Financial Institution announced today that it is funding 122 units of affordable housing in South Los Angeles through the use of the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing Program. Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco awarded Clearinghouse CDFI $1,000,000 to help finance this development.

The RESNET Board of Directors has recently approved expanding RESNET’s membership and franchise to include all active Certified RESNET HERS Raters in good standing.

NEx: An ACI Center of Excellence for Nonmetallic Building Materials, announces MST Rebar Inc. as a new Bronze Supporting Member. The organizations will work together to help drive NEx’s mission to collaborate globally on the use of nonmetallic building materials driving research, education, awareness and adoption.

The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry today announced Carbon’s EPU 44, DuPont’s Thermax Non-Halogen Insulation and The Chemours Company’s Opteon 1150 as the finalists for this year’s Polyurethane Innovation Award. The annual honor recognizes inventive new commercial technologies within the polyurethanes industry.