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Cyberlux Corporation has been Selected to Provide New High Performance Solid State LED Lighting for the US Air Force

Cyberlux Corporation, (OTC Bulletin Board: CYBL), a leading provider of LED lighting solutions, announced today that the Company has been selected to provide a new high performance solid-state LED lighting system for the...

28 Sep 2006

Some USA Sidewalks are made of Rubber

The streets of America were never paved with gold, but now some of its sidewalks are made of rubber. Dozens of communities have installed rubber because it coexists with tree roots more easily than concrete. The latte...

28 Sep 2006

New Construction (Design and Management) Regulations

Revisions to the Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations (1994) (CDM 94) are expected to come in to force in April 2007. Construction remains a disproportionately dangerous industry where improvements ...

28 Sep 2006

Emgold's Golden Bear Ceramics at West Coast Green Conference

Emgold Mining Corporation (Vancouver, Canada) has announced that Golden Bear Ceramics Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Emgold, will be exhibiting its stone tile, manufactured from 100% waste material, at the West Co...

27 Sep 2006

Decorative Garage Floor Coatings Become Hot Trend Among Homeowners and Designers

Decorative garage floor coatings are quickly becoming a hot trend among homeowners and designers. The Concrete Network offers an extensive and educational overview of the advantages and features of incorporating decorati...

27 Sep 2006

Laing Thermotech Offer an Inventive Line of Hot Water Circulation Pumps

Laing Thermotech Inc. is pleased to offer an inventive line of hot water circulation pumps that give consumers the convenience of having hot water at every faucet in their home instantly. "Many homeowners complai...

27 Sep 2006

New Services for Neway Building Clients

Neway Building and Property Services, Inc. is a professional cleaning and maintenance service company that serves the Metro Houston area. With experience in this field since 1998, Neway is quickly becoming the leader in ...

27 Sep 2006

Sydney's Tallest Building Celebrates Its 25th Birthday

Sydney’s tallest building and one of its major icons, Sydney Tower, turns 25 today after treating more than 16 million visitors to one of the world’s most spectacular panoramas since its 1981 opening. To m...

27 Sep 2006

Novel Method for Understanding How a Cities Sewer System Behaves

Northeastern University professor Ferdi Hellweger and PhD student Indrani Ghosh are the co-authors of a paper titled “Simulating Urban Hydrology Using Artificial Sewer Networks” that suggest a novel method fo...

26 Sep 2006

Innovative Aluminium Ladder Alternative Wins Building and Construction Prize

The Alcan co-developed "StepLift" has won the 2006 European Aluminium Award in the "building & construction" category at the "ALUMINIUM 2006" exhibition in Essen, Germany. Developed by S...

26 Sep 2006

Construction Begins for Mosaic on Hermann Park the largest Residential High-Rise Built in Houston

Phillips Development & Realty and Developer Sales Group, LLC will celebrate the tower launch of Mosaic on Hermann Park Wednesday evening, Sept. 27, 2006. This marks the initial phase of vertical construction for this...

26 Sep 2006

Two Sides of the Same Coins? Droughts and Floods

This summer, we’ve seen severe drought in the Midwest and floods in New Mexico and Pennsylvania. These are not two different issues, but ‘two sides of the same coin,’" says Shannon Horst, executive...

26 Sep 2006

The largest Flood Storage Project in Europe

The largest flood storage project in Europe, the Alkborough Flats Tidal Defence Scheme in Lincolnshire, will reduce the risk of flooding for 300,000 people and become a haven for wildfowl and wading birds, the Environmen...

26 Sep 2006

UK Government Publish a Joint Housing Corporation and DCLG Action Plan in Response to the Recommendations of the Elton Report

The Government has today published a joint Housing Corporation/DCLG action plan in response to the recommendations of the Elton Review of Regulatory and Compliance Requirements on RSLs. The Elton Report makes a range...

26 Sep 2006

Energy Performance Certificates Should be Linked to Incentives

Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) should be linked to incentives such as green mortgages, Housing Minister Yvette Cooper said today. EPCs could also be linked to schemes run by energy companies which give homebuyers...

26 Sep 2006