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Manufactured Stone Range from ProStone Expands After Positive Feedback From Builders and Masons

Just six months after launch, Owens Corning Masonry Products, LLC, announced today at the PCBC show additional enhancements to its ProStone line of manufactured stone veneer. Already receiving a positive reception by the...

27 Jun 2008

Celebrity Interior Designer Shares Tip on Renovating a Bathroom on a Budget

For homeowners looking to make their home stand out from the pack, a bathroom rehab is always tops on the list. But, according to Remodeling Magazine, the average cost of a mid-scale bathroom remodel is a whopping $15...

27 Jun 2008

Steelcase Gets Sustainability Award

Steelcase, the global leader in the office furniture industry, has been awarded a British FISP (Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme) certificate in acknowledgment of its pioneering “Life Cycle Thinking&rdqu...

26 Jun 2008

Energy Conserving LED Lighting Standard Set

Scientists at NIST, in cooperation with national standards organizations, have taken the lead in developing the first two standards for solid-state lighting in the United States

26 Jun 2008

Positive Pressure Ventilation for High Rise Fire Fighting

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) engineers recently released a two-disk DVD set that demonstrates how Positive Pressure Ventilation (PPV), a technique in which powerful fans force smoke and heat from...

26 Jun 2008

Lamina Lighting Introduces LED Replacement Lamp in a Range of Colours

Lamina Lighting Incorporated, the world leader in the development and manufacturer of high-power LED light engines, today announced immediate availability of their highly popular LED-based replacement lamp

25 Jun 2008

Saint Gobain to Build New Flat Glass Plant in India

To meet the increasing demand of its Indian customers, Saint-Gobain has announced plans to build a new flat glass plant in this country

25 Jun 2008

New DuPont Technical Center Partially Solar Powered

DuPont Microcircuit Materials, part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, recently celebrated the opening of a new technical center in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Powered in part by a 4.25 kilowatt solar panel, the center provides research, development and technical support for its customers in the photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry who use DuPont Solamet thick film metallization pastes

25 Jun 2008

Australia Opens It's Doors to Sustainable Housing

As part of the 7th annual Sustainable House Day, homes across the country will open so others can learn and experience the benefits of all aspects of sustainable living. And what’s more, these houses appear normal ...

24 Jun 2008

NABCO Etched Glass Doors Add Impact and Elegance to Entranceways

NABCO Entrances is now offering custom etched glass on its Gyro Tech(r) Whisper Slider series of automatic doors. For this application, your logo or other message is sand blasted into the glass adding elegance to your en...

24 Jun 2008

Next Generation Prisons to Feature Anti-climb Rainwater Down Pipes, Fascias and Steel Ceilings

The prison crisis is creating an urgent demand to expand accommodation that is giving rise to innovations in building techniques. The Ministry of Justice, working with steel framed building specialist Britspace, has developed a speedily erected modular cell building that is fabricated off-site. Key components from Guttermaster include concealed gutters, deeply overhanging fascias to eaves and verges, heavy-duty steel ceilings and un-climbable rainwater down pipes

24 Jun 2008

Stirling Aiming to Become the UK's First Carbon Neutral City

Stirling is aiming to become the UK's first carbon neutral city thanks to £1.25m in funding from the Big Lottery Fund and the Scottish Government to the community led Going Carbon Neutral Stirling (GCNS) project

24 Jun 2008

UK Government Plans for Better Protecting Property from Flooding

Details of Government plans to assist individuals and businesses to better protect their property from the impacts of flooding have been outlined by the Environment Secretary today. Visiting a flood affected neighbour...

24 Jun 2008

Chinese Government to Sponsor a High Level Showcase for Green Building and Infrastructure Products

China Eco Expo, in partnership with China’s Ministry of Construction will present the International Green Building/Green Cities Expo in Beijing next Spring. The Expo will be the featured attraction of the 14th a...

24 Jun 2008

Clean Drinking Water For Every House in Indian Village

Through their Water for the World initiative Borouge and Borealis, leading providers of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, are helping the State of Maharashtra in India to supply drinking water 24 hours per day, seven days a week to the residents of Malkapur village, 400km south of Mumbai

24 Jun 2008