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Sun Healthcare Group Teams With New Orleans Habitat for Humanity

Sun Healthcare Group, Inc.has partnered with the New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to assist with the construction of several homes designated for low-income families, many of whom were displaced as a result of Hurri...

1 May 2008

Simmtronic Digital Lighting Controls Installed in Prestigious Spinningfields Office Buildings

Simmtronic has supplied its SPECS3 fully addressable, digital lighting controls for two more prestigious office buildings at Spinningfields in Manchester

30 Apr 2008

Team UT-Battelle to Help Build Anderson Habitat House

A crew of volunteers from Team UT-Battelle gathered this weekend to begin construction of a Habitat for Humanity house in Clinton's Hickory Ridge Subdivision

30 Apr 2008

Do It To It Clothing Line Offers Designer Utility Apparel For DIY Woman

Chicks and Bricks Finally Click with Fashion Line That Makes Work Threads Sexier than What's Screwed on Pipes

30 Apr 2008

New Allglas Interior Officefront System From DORMA Represents a Breakthrough in Designing and Outfitting Interior Office Space

The new allglas interior officefront system from DORMA Glas represents a breakthrough in designing and outfitting interior office space with frameless glass office fronts. With multiple hardware options and a single source of contact from initial design through installation, the allglas system offers architects and interior designers a streamlined way to create modern frameless glass interior office fronts.

30 Apr 2008

Soundproof Windows Company Noise Testing Exceeds All Expectations

Recent extensive laboratory noise tests, performed on Soundproof Windows premier window products by the Western Electro-Acoustic Laboratory (WEAL) in Santa Clarita, California, have shown significant reduction of noise l...

30 Apr 2008

International Council of Shopping Centers Has Adopted BREEAM as their Pan-European Sustainability Standard

The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) has adopted BREEAM as their pan-European sustainability standard of choice, ahead of other international environmental assessment methodologies. This decision was c...

30 Apr 2008

Dow and Global Solar Team Up on Energized Building Products

Global Solar Energy, a solar industry leader that manufactures highly-efficient thin-film solar cells for glass modules or flexible material products, today announced Dow Building Solutions, a business unit of The Dow Ch...

29 Apr 2008

Unity House, A Mass-Producible, Customizable, Sustainable and Adaptable Green Home

OPI has developed a process that makes it possible to construct thousands of environmentally friendly Net-Zero homes (which produce as much energy as they consume) and is sharing these innovations with the entire building industry.

29 Apr 2008

Ten Year Milestone for Michigan Conference on Affordable Housing

The Michigan Conference on Affordable Housing celebrates its tenth year and is now the largest conference of its kind in the country. What started as an informal meeting between representatives from the Michigan State...

29 Apr 2008

Cost Efficient, Sustainable Building Solutions to be Showcased at CIH

H+H UK will be showing its range of advanced products for cost-efficient, sustainable construction on stand 18 in Hall A at CIH (Harrogate, 17-19 June). H+H UK will be highlighting the Thin-Joint System, a Modern Meth...

29 Apr 2008

Green Building and Historic Preservation Turns Abandoned Bank Building into Luxury Apartments and Retail

Downtown Trenton, NJ's landmark building emerges from state's list of most endangered historic properties as a symbol of Capital City's revival via green building and historic preservation

28 Apr 2008

HERITAGE 2008 World and Sustainable Heritage Conference to be Held in Portugal

The first HERITAGE 2008 World and Sustainable Heritage conference is being held in Vila Nova de Foz Côa, in the Portuguese north region of Porto - Douro Valley - this May 6 to 7, 2008. This international conference will unite several international experts on the relationships between heritage and Human development, natural environment and historic preservation.

28 Apr 2008

Saving Money, Water and Resources with Synthetic Lawn Grass

Arizona's recently developed active adult community, featuring Southwest-inspired models with an emphasis on outdoor living, chose ForeverLawn artificial grass to enhance the experience for potential residents and reduce its own maintenance costs.

28 Apr 2008

Thermal Break for Aluminum Windows, Doors, Curtain Walls and Storefronts

Indalex Ltd. has completed installation of new technology to manufacture a thermal break system that uses warm edge polyamide insulating glass spacers and thermal insulating struts to provide a structural thermal break f...

24 Apr 2008