Building News

RSS

Balli Steel Reports 100 per cent PA Rise in Global Steel Prices

Balli Steel has announced that the construction boom is driving steel prices in emerging markets, according to the latest Quarterly Market Report 2008 on global steel prices and trends

25 Aug 2008

Architecture 2030 Founder Says Energy Independence is Within Reach

Energy independence is within our grasp, according to Edward Mazria, founder and executive director of Architecture 2030. Speaking at the first annual National Clean Energy Summit hosted by U.S. Senator Harry Reid, the C...

25 Aug 2008

Californian Emissions Tests Passed by Plyboo Bamboo Flooring

Plyboo bamboo plywood products have passed emissions testing under the criteria of California Section 01350, the most stringent volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions standards

25 Aug 2008

Free Rooftop Wind Turbine for New York Mayor to Go Green

On the heels of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s call to generate more power in his city with wind, a California company that makes roof-top wind turbines is offering the City of New York a free wind turbine to d...

25 Aug 2008

Yingli Green Energy Plans to Construct a Solar Power Plant in Beijing, China

Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited, one of the world’s leading vertically integrated photovoltaic product manufacturers, today announced that it has entered into a framework agreement with the local govern...

25 Aug 2008

Aircrete Walls Prove Successful in Environmentally Friendly and Energy Efficient Home

Solid walls of Thin Jointed H+H aircrete proved to be a fast and effective answer when Paulo Mondadori wanted to build an energy efficient and environmentally friendly executive home in Wimbledon, south west London

22 Aug 2008

Pilkington K Glass Recommended for The Green Homes Retrofit Manual.

Pilkington K Glass has been recommended by the Housing Corporation’s Fit For The Future – The Green Homes Retrofit Manual

22 Aug 2008

CertainTeed Invests In Unique, Environmentally Friendly Building System

CertainTeed Corporation, has made an investment in ARXX to
further develop the growing market for ARXX's innovative Apex Block, a naturally insulating cement-foam building material used for both above and belowgrade walls

22 Aug 2008

Lessons Learnt from BRE Code for Sustainable Homes Added to Information Paper

Lessons learnt by the first four developers to design and build to the Code for Sustainable Homes on the BRE Innovation Park have led to the compilation of detailed guidance in a BRE Information paper entitled Applying t...

22 Aug 2008

Optima Leading the Way for Greener Construction in the Partitioning Industry

As the warnings keep on coming about the state of our planet, Optima, the UK's market leading partitioning specialist has vowed to completely cut waste to landfill out of their operations through recycling by 2010

22 Aug 2008

Best Practices Forum for Ethics Organization in the Construction Industry

The Construction Industry Ethics and Compliance Initiative ("CIECI"), founded in late April 2008 by the CEOs of thirteen of the leading U.S. construction industry contractors, will hold its first Forum on Octob...

22 Aug 2008

New York Nuclear Power Plant at Risk of Earthquake

A study by a group of prominent seismologists suggests that a pattern of subtle but active faults makes the risk of earthquakes to the New York City area substantially greater than formerly believed

22 Aug 2008

Stained Glass Windows Use Nanotechnology to Purify the Air

Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered

22 Aug 2008

Insulate America Names Owens Corning Supplier of the Year

Owens Corning announced that it was recently named Supplier of the Year by Insulate America, the largest group of locally-owned, independent insulation contractors in the United States. This is the third time that Owe...

20 Aug 2008

Most Advanced and Environmentally Friendly Concrete Mix Used in Green Casino Resort

iCrete, a company that is revolutionizing the construction industry with its concrete mix design technology system, has delivered some of the world's most advanced and environmentally friendly concrete mix designs for the construction of Revel Casino Resort

20 Aug 2008