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'Room-By-Room' Safety Tips to be Provided by Home Safety Council and Colgate-Palmolive

The saying goes "there's no place like home" and families across the country continue to embrace that sentiment with an increase in home improvement projects. However, most families are spending more time f...

23 Oct 2006

Homeowners and Designers Discover Concrete Resurfacing System

Homeowners and designers are always looking for ways to enhance the beauty of their home while maximizing what their money buys. For help with this problem during a recent remodel of a front and backyard a local designer...

23 Oct 2006

Changes To Part L Gets The Green Light

Changes to Part L of the building regulations in the Republic of Ireland, which came into force in July 2006, will have a dramatic affect on the specification of new and replacement windows in non-housing. In most cases ...

20 Oct 2006

Changes To Part L Gets The Green Light

20 Oct 2006

Roofing Installer Program Planned for Sacramento

Tile roofing contractors will have the opportunity to become certified in the latest installation methods and best practices at a November training session in Sacramento. Attendees of the Tile Roofing Installer Certifica...

20 Oct 2006

UK Government's Social Housing Refurbishment Drive

Thirty eight councils in England have today been given the go-ahead for their plans to transfer more than 94,000 homes during the next two years, as part of the Government’s social housing refurbishment drive. Twenty...

20 Oct 2006

$20 Million Contract for Cleveland Federal Building Awarded to Dick Corporation

Dick Corporation has received a $30 million contract to provide construction management services to the General Services Administration (GSA) for the modernization of the A.J. Celebrezze Federal Building in Cleveland, Oh...

20 Oct 2006

Celcon Flooring System - 585 Square Metres in Three Days

Covering 585 square metres, 167 Celcon Flooring System elements have been installed in three days on a housing development at Brampton, near Huntingdon. The system was chosen by local developers Campbell Buchanan for the...

20 Oct 2006

Lafarge Announce Sensium® Technological Cements a Major Innovation in the Construction Sector

Lafarge announces today the launch by its subsidiary, Lafarge Ciments, of Sensium® technological cements, a new generation of cements, in France. Thanks to their innovative properties, these new cements correspond to...

19 Oct 2006

Report Published by HSE Following the Investigation of a Construction Workers Death

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a report on its investigation into the death of a construction worker killed by a falling load. HSE’s findings raise an issue for those undertaking routine examination ...

19 Oct 2006

WRAP Launch a Construction Waste Recycling Programme

WRAP (the Waste & Resources Action Programme) has launched a construction waste recycling infrastructure capital support programme and is encouraging UK based construction and demolition waste collection or recycling...

19 Oct 2006

English Partnerships Work to Produce a £15m UK Housing Development

Aspirational housebuilders are being invited by national regeneration agency English Partnerships and Lancaster City Council to work with them to produce a £15m exemplar housing development in Morecambe’s West End area. ...

19 Oct 2006

Resurface Unsightly Concrete Through Several Decorative Concrete Techniques

Conventional wisdom holds that old concrete, with cracks, surface discoloration, or surface imperfections, must be removed and replaced if improving the look of the concrete is the goal. Many times homeowners are discour...

19 Oct 2006

New 16-Inch Variable Speed Models Introduce by Part-A-Cool(r)

The new Port-A-Cool® 16-inch variable speed models are here joining the top selling variable speed 24 and 36-inch fan blade sizes already a staple in the Port-A-Cool® lineup. Producing more air than any previ...

19 Oct 2006

FenceCenter.com Announce the Newly Redesigned Website

FenceCenter.com and its parent company, Sonco Worldwide, are proud to announce the newly redesigned website at www.fencecenter.com. As the largest online store for fencing products, the website now features fence buildin...

19 Oct 2006