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PPG Publishes Sustainable Building Products Brochure

PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) has published EcoLogical Building Solutions, a new brochure highlighting its sustainable architectural glass, coatings and paint products. Featured products include: Solarban solar cont...

17 Dec 2008

Increasing Bridge Safety With Energy Harnessing Radios

If changing the batteries in the remote control or smoke detector seems like a chore, imagine having to change hundreds of batteries in sensors scattered across a busy bridge

17 Dec 2008

Concrete Buster Technology Awarded for Search and Rescue Missions

Move over, drills, saws, and jackhammers. Now there's something much faster for search-and-rescue missions. And, Homeland Security's new Concrete Buster just won a technology Best-of-the-Year Award from Popular Science

17 Dec 2008

BASF Construction Chemicals Acquires Concrete Admixture Company

BASF Construction Chemicals (China) Co., Ltd. announced that it has acquired the concrete admixture business of Kejie Admixture Science Technology Co

17 Dec 2008

Guidebook Shows Architects, Planners, Urban Designers and Developers how to Redesign and Redevelop Existing Suburbs

Guidebook shows how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic condition

15 Dec 2008

Free Guide to Flooring Slip Tests Makes Flooring Safer

CERAM has published its free Guide to Slip Resistance Tests, which is available to download

14 Dec 2008

Laser Scanner Used to Evaluate Structural Integrity of Centuries Old Walls

Researchers from the University of Salamanca used a terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) to evaluate the structural condition of the city walls of Ávila

14 Dec 2008

House Designers Have Launched ENERGY STAR Approved House Plans

The House Designers (THD) and ENERGY STAR have partnered to offer consumers an exclusive collection of Green House Plans. Their newly launched ENERGY STAR House Plan website, features green designs from The House Designe...

14 Dec 2008

New 'Weathertight Durable Roof Underlay' Roofing Material Launched

Techtex, the fastest growing privately-owned non woven textile company in the UK, has launched a new product called 'Weathertight Durable Roof Underlay.' Based in Manchester, in the UK Techtex has launched th...

14 Dec 2008

Construction Marketing Award for Glass Office Partitioning Specialist, Optima Systems

The advanced drywall and office partitioning supplier triumphed at the Construction Marketing Awards 2008, taking home the coveted prize for Best Use of a Website. Optima Systems beat off stiff competition from four o...

11 Dec 2008

Easy and Safe Surface Preparation of Decorative Concrete

An improved method for preparing surfaces for decorative concrete arts makes it easier and safer for contractors to leave their stamp on the world. Franmar Chemical, Inc. specializes in safe, effective, green products designed to clean concrete surfaces and also remove paint, urethane, sealer and mastic

11 Dec 2008

Construction Companies Commit to Halving Construction Waste Sent to Landfill

Leading companies across the construction supply chain have committed to collectively halve the amount of construction waste sent to landfill by 2012. Just a few weeks after the launch of The Construction Commitments: Ha...

11 Dec 2008

Energy Efficient Lighting Controller Released for LED Lighting Systems

Following the release of the world's first microcontroller (MCU) with four-channel constant-current drive for LED lighting systems, NEC Electronics Corporation (TSE:6723) this month began shipment of 14 new 8-bit All...

11 Dec 2008

New Light Bulb Technology from GE

Miniaturized electronics developed by GE Consumer + Industrial engineers and scientists are the enabling technology of a new covered GE Energy Smart® compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb featuring the GE Spiral® ...

11 Dec 2008

Robots Designed to Save Lives of Construction Workers

The Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech won the grand prize at the 2008 International Capstone Design Fair with a trio of pole-climbing serpentine robots designed to take the place of construction workers tasked with dangerous jobs such as inspecting high-rises or underwater bridge piers

10 Dec 2008