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Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Honors SC Johnson with 2015 Wright Spirit Award

SC Johnson was awarded a 2015 Wright Spirit Award on October 3 by the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy.

6 Oct 2015

Fraport Employees Break Ground for Frankfurt Airport's New Terminal 3

More than 400 employees of Fraport AG simultaneously performed the symbolic first cut of the spade today, marking the ground-breaking and start of construction for Frankfurt Airport's new Terminal 3.

6 Oct 2015

New 30-Story Luxury High-Rise to be Built by Palladium USA International in Plano's Legacy West

Capitalizing on the tremendous growth in the North Texas region, Palladium USA International has contracted to purchase 2.1 acres of land in the prestigious Legacy West development in Plano, Texas, to build a 30-story, luxury high-rise.

6 Oct 2015

Gemma Power Systems to Commence Construction of 475MW Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant in Ohio

Gemma Power Systems, LLC (GPS) has received Full Notice to Proceed (FNTP) to commence activities under an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) services contract with NTE Ohio LLC, an affiliate of NTE Energy, to construct a 475 MW state-of-the-art natural gas-fired power plant in Middletown, OH.

6 Oct 2015

Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies to Take Part in DPEA Post-Carbon Architecture Program

The Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) was invited to take part in the program of the DPEA postgraduate cycle Post-carbon Architecture organized by the "École nationale supérieure d'architecture de la ville et des territoires” in Marne-la-Vallée (EnsaVT) in partnership with the "École des Ponts Paris-Tech".

6 Oct 2015

Lucideon and BBA Collaborate to Provide Improved Certification and Testing Services for the Construction Industry

Lucideon, the international materials technology company, and the British Board of Agrément (BBA), a leading technical assessment and certification body in the UK, is pleased to announce the forging of a closer co-operation, a move designed to provide the construction industry with improved certification and testing services.

From Lucideon 6 Oct 2015

Royalpark Homes Partners with Panasonic Canada to Offer New Residential Battery Storage System in New Homes

Today, Royalpark Homes announced its collaboration with Panasonic Canada to offer residential battery storage in its new home builds. This new Residential Battery Storage System includes all the components needed to capture solar energy and store electricity for later use. Royalpark has plans to offer this package and other environmentally sustainable options in future projects in Vaughan, Aurora, and the industry changing Green Earth Village in East Gwillimbury.

5 Oct 2015

Technip Gets Contract for Development of Subsea Infrastructure for Shell's Stones Project

Technip was awarded by Shell Offshore Inc. (“Shell”) a contract for the development of subsea infrastructure for the Stones project. Included in the service are two subsea production tie-backs to the Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel. The Stones field is located in the Walker Ridge area in the US Gulf of Mexico, at a water depth of 2,930 meters along the pipelay route.

5 Oct 2015

TCP Donates Energy Efficient LED lamps in Support of Arbor Day Foundation's $9 Million Renovation

Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP) worked with the Arbor Day Foundation, a non-profit conservation and education organization, to further its mission to inspire people to plant, nurture and celebrate trees. TCP donated roughly $17,000 of energy efficient LED lamps to the organization's Lied Lodge & Conference Center in support of its extensive $9 million renovation.

5 Oct 2015

Cretex Concrete Products Sold to HBP Pipe & Precast

Cretex Companies today announced it has sold its subsidiary, Cretex Concrete Products, Inc. (CCP), to HBP Pipe & Precast LLC, the former HeidelbergCement affiliate that operated under the Hanson Building Products name (HBP) based in Irving, Texas. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

5 Oct 2015

NV5 to Perform Final Design Services for Phase II of Starlight Park Project

NV5 Holdings, Inc. (the "Company" or "NV5"), a provider of professional consulting design and engineering solutions, announced today that it will perform final design services for Starlight Park Phase II between Westchester Avenue and East Tremont Avenue along the banks of the Bronx River. This contract was won by The RBA Group as part of a task-order contract with the New York City Department of Design and Construction (NYCDDC). RBA recently completed Phase I of the Starlight Park project which resulted in design fees exceeding $1.6 million.

5 Oct 2015

University of Minnesota Breaks Ground on Renovation of Tate Science and Teaching Building

University officials broke ground on the renovation of the Tate Science and Teaching building (formerly Tate Laboratory of Physics) at a ceremony on September 30, 2015. The occasion marked the official beginning of the two-year renovation scheduled to be completed in Fall of 2017 that will transform the 89 year old building into the joint home of the School of Physics and Astronomy and the Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences.

5 Oct 2015

Uppsala University Researchers Work Out New Way to Rejuvenate Smart Windows

Electrochromic windows, so-called ‘smart windows’, share a well-known problem with rechargeable batteries – their limited lifespan. Researchers at Uppsala University have now worked out an entirely new way to rejuvenate smart windows which have started to show signs of age. The study, published in the distinguished science journal Nature Materials, may open the way to other areas of application.

5 Oct 2015

Constructech Names Balfour Beatty Construction Leaders to 2015 Women in Construction List

Constructech magazine recently named Balfour Beatty Construction’s Kasey Bevans and Nancy Novak to its “2015 Women in Construction” list at the publication’s 2015 Technology Day event.

1 Oct 2015

Lennar Joins Leaders from City of Austin to Open City's First Solar-Standard Community

Lennar, one of the nation's largest homebuilders, today joined leaders from the City of Austin and Austin Energy, as well as Texas policymakers, to open the city's first solar-standard community made possible by recent changes in utility regulations – demonstrating that environmental sustainability and new-home affordability can go hand-in-hand.

1 Oct 2015

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Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Honors SC Johnson with 2015 Wright Spirit Award

Fraport Employees Break Ground for Frankfurt Airport's New Terminal 3

New 30-Story Luxury High-Rise to be Built by Palladium USA International in Plano's Legacy West

Gemma Power Systems to Commence Construction of 475MW Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant in Ohio

Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies to Take Part in DPEA Post-Carbon Architecture Program

Lucideon and BBA Collaborate to Provide Improved Certification and Testing Services for the Construction Industry

Royalpark Homes Partners with Panasonic Canada to Offer New Residential Battery Storage System in New Homes

Technip Gets Contract for Development of Subsea Infrastructure for Shell's Stones Project

TCP Donates Energy Efficient LED lamps in Support of Arbor Day Foundation's $9 Million Renovation

Cretex Concrete Products Sold to HBP Pipe & Precast

NV5 to Perform Final Design Services for Phase II of Starlight Park Project

University of Minnesota Breaks Ground on Renovation of Tate Science and Teaching Building

Uppsala University Researchers Work Out New Way to Rejuvenate Smart Windows

Constructech Names Balfour Beatty Construction Leaders to 2015 Women in Construction List

Lennar Joins Leaders from City of Austin to Open City's First Solar-Standard Community

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