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Housing Starts Edge Down In August, Maintain Robust Pace

The pace of new-home construction edged down slightly in August but remained at a seasonally adjusted annual rate above 2 million units for the fifth month in a row, according to government figures released today. The...

22 Sep 2005

Builders: Overdue Proposed Rule On Endangered Species Is Sensible Policy

Two years after a federal court ruled illegal the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) listing of the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl under the Endangered Species Act, FWS has proposed to remove the pygmy owl from the endan...

22 Sep 2005

New Duct-Sealing Law Could Save Homeowners Big Bucks This Fall

When Greta Ossman climbed into her attic to install some wiring last summer, she discovered why the energy bills for her Sacramento home had been so expensive. "Someone, sometime, had knelt on my main heating and...

22 Sep 2005

Leica Geosystems Announces A New Generation Of Leica DISTO

Leica Geosystems will be launching the new Leica DISTO™ generation within the next few weeks. These new laser distance meters set new benchmarks with respect to ease of handling and user-friendliness. “...

21 Sep 2005

Important Changes To Landmark Environmental Reports From 24 September

New BGS GeoSure datasets Landmark will be replacing the British Geological Society (BGS) GeoHazard data with the new BGS GeoSure data. The new GeoSure datasets assess the potential for a hazard to occur in an area, pr...

21 Sep 2005

Hearth & Home Technologies’ Parent Company Recognized as One of the Top 50 U.S. Manufacturers

IndustryWeek magazine recently recognized HNI Corporation as one of the 50 Best U.S. Manufacturers. Key to receiving the recognition is HNI subsidiary, Hearth & Home Technologies, which won this year’s Shing...

21 Sep 2005

Campaigners Launch Action Against Threat Of New Housing Sprawl

'Unleashing a wave of market housebuilding across the country will do little or nothing for those in greatest housing need. But it will cripple efforts to regenerate run-down urban areas and leave permanent scars on ...

21 Sep 2005

Wind Farm Free-For-All Threatens Countryside

Wind farm developers are gaining a foothold in beautiful landscapes where past applications have been repeatedly refused, countryside campaigners CPRE warn. 'Decisions based on flaws in the current wind farm plann...

21 Sep 2005

Transparent Interlayer for Fire-Resistant Glass Made from Degussa’s AEROSIL® Fumed Silica Sets New Standards - for More Than Just Their Flame Resistance

Who says that large and small do not fit together and that companies of opposing sizes will get in each others way? Certainly nobody who knows about the cooperation between Degussa AG, Dusseldorf, Germany, the world&#...

21 Sep 2005

CIRIA Annual Contaminated Land Conference

Contaminated land professionals have had to face a number of new challenges in the past 12 months. The implementation of Landfill Directive last summer and the forthcoming Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) has made off-sit...

21 Sep 2005

Modular SUDS Training

Background Sustainable drainage systems (SUDS) are arguably one of the most significant developments in urban drainage in many years. Awareness by practitioners and their implementation in developments is steadily incre...

21 Sep 2005

First UK Timber Company Completes Environmental Profile Certification

James Jones & Sons Ltd's Timber Systems Division, the manufacturer of JJI-Joists, is the first UK I-Joist supplier to receive the Environmental Profiling Registration from BRE Certification. Brian Robertson, G...

21 Sep 2005

Geoffrey Osborne To Build On BRE Innovation Park

Contractor Geoffrey Osborne, one of the nine winners of the ODPM Design for Manufacture competition, will build a demonstration house on the Innovation Park at BRE, it was announced today. The demonstration house will...

21 Sep 2005

Guidance On New Fire Legislation

Expected changes to fire legislation will require those responsible for premises used by the public to take action to prevent fires, and protect against death and injury should a fire occur. The Regulatory Reform (Fir...

21 Sep 2005

BASF To Present Eco-efficiency Analysis Tool At Green By Design 2 Symposium

BASF’s participation in the Green by Design 2 sustainability symposium, September 28-29 in Grand Rapids, Mich., will feature a presentation on its Eco-efficiency Analysis program followed by a workshop in which att...

21 Sep 2005