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New OlyBond NightShot Temporary Tie-In Introduced by OMG

OMG, Inc., a leading manufacturer of fasteners and building products for the commercial and residential construction industry, has unveiled the new OlyBond NightShot temporary tie-in. NightShot is a fast acting, low-rise...

12 Feb 2007

Prevent Hand and Back Injuries with Slope Shelving

Employees can visually inspect shipments loaded on slope shelving stacking racks and easily remove those products in poor condition. This eliminates the traditional manual handling inspections that can easily produce bac...

12 Feb 2007

Full Line of Firestopping Products to Defend Aganist Sound and Smoke Launched by Acoustical Solutions

Firestop materials serve two primary purposes - they reduce sound transmission between rooms, and they block the spread of flame and smoke through the small spaces in a building. These products are appropriate for use in...

9 Feb 2007

The Concrete Network's Picture of the Week Archive

Starting a new project at home involves time and patience, whether you're designing a new apatio or driveway. Finding the perfect design ideas, patterns, styles and colors can be a tedious task. Often it includes sub...

9 Feb 2007

Verde Energy Teams Up With Trees For The Future To Off Set Carbon Emissions

Verde Energy, an online marketplace providing commercial and residential customers with competitive bids on solar power, solar thermal, wind power and other renewable energy projects, has teamed up with Trees for the Fut...

9 Feb 2007

RNL Hosts "Green Week"

RNL Design is proud to announce that 62 of its employees have received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Accreditation from the U.S. Green Building Council. This number represents more than 50% of the firm&#3...

9 Feb 2007

New Self-Paced Learning Program Now Available to Help Home Building Industry

A new self-paced learning program is now available to help the home building industry's 2.5 million Hispanic workers learn English. Sed de Saber(TM)-Construction Edition, sponsored by Lowe's, was custom-created b...

9 Feb 2007

DuPont Played Important Role in New Florida Legislation

DuPont Building Innovations has played an important role in new Florida legislation that extends the state's strong hurricane protection building codes to the Florida Panhandle, which suffered significant damage from...

9 Feb 2007

Valspar and Lowe's Unveil an All-New Label for its Line of Paint

Lowe's Companies, Inc. in conjunction with The Valspar Corporation (NYSE: VAL), today announced its premium-quality paint label will get a fresh coat of paint under the Valspar brand. The interior and exterior paint,...

9 Feb 2007

Study Finds That Bacteria Survive on Stainless Steel, But Not on Copper

Scientists at the University of Southampton, U.K., have found that E. coli O157:H7, a harmful bacterium primarily associated with raw and undercooked ground beef or foods that come into contact with raw meat, cannot surv...

9 Feb 2007

Home Solutions Subsidiary Responds to Florida Tornados

Home Solutions of America, Inc. today announced that its Fireline Restoration, Inc. subsidiary was an emergency first responder to the tornados that struck Central Florida on February 2, 2007. The company was on the grou...

9 Feb 2007

Brick - the Exhibition

On 24 May 2007, the exhibition Brick will open at the Groot Handelsgebouw in Rotterdam, Netherlands during the Rotterdam 2007, City of Architecture show. The exhibition will highlight the results of the Brick project tha...

8 Feb 2007

LBGA Begins Construction of Two New Plasterboard Factories in China and India

Lafarge today announced that, as part of its joint venture with Boral, Lafarge Boral Gypsum in Asia (LBGA), two new plasterboard factories are to be built in Asia, one in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan province, the ot...

8 Feb 2007

Pilkington: Guiding Light on Burning Issues

The recent introduction of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (FSO) is the most significant change to affect fire safety in the last thirty years. Fire-resistant glass is a key element in any fire protection strat...

8 Feb 2007

House-Building Industry Has Been Changed To Tackle Climate Change

The house-building industry has been challenged to speed up its response to climate change by creating a number of zero and near zero carbon developments in a new government-backed initiative announced today by Communiti...

8 Feb 2007