Vera Novak is director of marketing and technical services at the Insulating Concrete Form Association. For more information on the association and its trade shows, visit www.forms.org.
The IT trades are making way for the newest global industry, energy technology. From Capitol Hill to Silicon Valley, the focus is on finding cheap, reliable energy sources. There is a sense of urgency to creating alternative technology, since U.S. oil and natural gas reserves are in steep decline and 70 percent of the remaining world reserves must be extracted from the troubled political countries of the Middle East.