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Miller Construction Opens New Sports Facility

Former England, Manchester United and Middlesbrough player, Gary Pallister was on hand at Acklam Grange School, Middlesbrough to officially open the £2.2m Acorn Centre. The Centre, which was built by Miller Constru...

26 Jan 2005

Bouygues Construction Wins 140 Million Euro Singapore Contract

Bouygues Construction has won a 140 million euro contract to carry out The Sail@Marina Bay residential complex in Singapore. The project, situated on the seafront in Singapore’s business district, includes two 7...

26 Jan 2005

US Roofing Demand to Reach 259 Million Squares in 2008

US roofing demand is projected to expand 1.4 percent per year through 2008 to 259 million squares, with value expected to rise 3.5 percent per year to $12.5 billion. In nonresidential building markets, a recovery in the ...

24 Jan 2005

Textron's Greenlee Expands Presence in North American Plumbing Tools Segment

Textron has announced the formation of a joint venture between its Greenlee business unit and Rothenberger AG, a leading German-based plumbing and electrical tools manufacturer. The venture is aimed at expanding sales of...

20 Jan 2005

Deployable Architectural System Uses Common Shipping Containers As Standard Modular Units

When it comes to disaster relief, University of Toronto master of architecture student Michael Donaldson is thinking inside the box. Donaldson’s thesis project, completed on Jan. 8, lays out the concept for a deplo...

19 Jan 2005

Formula For Designing Landscapes Best Suited For People's Well-Being

At $350 million, New York City’s Sept. 11 memorial for Ground Zero features pools of water, oak trees and vast open space for the sun to shine through. But given the huge investment, are these carefully chosen aest...

19 Jan 2005

New Best Seller in Metal Envelope Technology

Over the past 40 years Corus has established a leading position for metal envelope solutions and the development, manufacture and supply of technically leading products and services for pre-finished steel. The market lea...

18 Jan 2005

New Improved Joint Masonry

In light of the gaining popularity of Thin Joint Masonry, Thermalite has produced a new guide, offering over twenty pages of essential information and technical advice for specifiers and contractors using Thin Joint Maso...

18 Jan 2005

BP to Build Wind Farm near Amsterdam

BP today announced that it has begun construction of a nine megawatt (mw) wind farm at its oil terminal in the port of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The project will have capacity to provide sufficient electricity for some...

13 Jan 2005

Millau Bridge Seen From Orbit

The Millau viaduct, newly inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac, is now the world's tallest road bridge. It stands high above the Tarn valley in France's Massif C...

6 Jan 2005

Elegant Shape of Eiffel Tower Solved Mathematically

An American engineer has produced a mathematical model explaining the elegant shape of the Eiffel Tower that was derived from French engineer Gustave Eiffel's writings regarding his own fears about the effects of win...

6 Jan 2005

Samsung Corporation To Build World's Tallest Skyscraper

Samsung Corporation (Sangdae Lee) has won a U.S. $850 million order from United Arab Emirates to build the tallest skyscraper, Burj Dubai, in the world. Building will commence in January 2005 on the 160 floor, 700m hi...

4 Jan 2005

Congress Supports Institute of Peace Headquarters Project with $100 Million Appropriation

Congress has provided $100 million to the U.S. Institute of Peace for construction of a permanent headquarters facility in the FY 2005 omnibus spending bill signed today by President Bush. The Institute's new hom...

4 Jan 2005

Hacker Unveil Two New Floor Screeds at Concrete Expo

Since 1983, Hacker Industries, Inc. has been the premier supplier of gypsum concrete floor underlayments providing the most cost effective and high strength gypsum-based floor underlayments for multi-family projects, cus...

4 Jan 2005

£30 Billion Construction Opportunity

A construction industry conference on Building Schools for the Future is being held on 3 March 2005 at BRE, Watford. Described by Tony Blair as 'the greatest schools renewal programme in British history,' the...

4 Jan 2005