While more popular in Europe, the Passive House standard is starting to gain more traction in the Australian market. It comes as people are more interested in how to make their new builds as energy efficient as possible while maintaining indoor comfort and wellbeing.
The dire shortage of a product you donât know of and will never see
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Rhett Simonds was expecting timber and steel prices to rise, but there was one input he never thought would be a problem â waffle pods.
The chief executive of Simonds Group, one of the countryâs largest home builders, was making plans around the shortages he anticipated of those two key materials, but never considered there would be a problem with waffle pods â the large polystyrene blocks used in the slabs of new homes.
âWe understood the pods were made here so didnât raise too much of a concern here, but when we find the raw material came from overseas and it was causing delays on jobs across our whole industry, all of a sudden it was going to be a problem,â Mr Simonds said. âAnd weâre seeing that.â
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January 28, 2021
CHARLOTTE, NC. A new generation of investors is changing the game on Wall Street, using social media. The shakeup started when a group of small day traders organized on Reddit came together, forcing shares of GameStop up 1700% this month.
“A lot of people, little money, but they’re forcing the big guys too, you know, they are forcing the hands of the big guys,” says the founder of WallStreetBets Jaime Rogozinski.
These mostly young traders are buying the stock in droves to raise its price because hedge fund managers have shorted it. That’s when an investor who thinks a stock is going to go down borrows shares today and promises to purchase it at a later date at whatever price it’s trading at then. Now professional investors have to buy back the stock at inflated prices.