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Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas Awards $500,000 Affordable Housing Program Grant

The chronically homeless living on the streets of Fort Smith, Arkansas, may not know the extent that caring citizens have gone to help them. But the Riverview Hope Campus - First Step, a new, 75-bed homeless shelter with additional support services, likely will change that.

7 Sep 2015

San Joaquin Valley Homes to Break Ground on First Phase of Palo Verde Project in Tulare

San Joaquin Valley Homes (SJV Homes) will break ground this month on the first phase of Palo Verde, a 110-acre community at Mooney Boulevard and Seminole Avenue in Tulare that will eventually offer 350 lots. SJV Homes will build 53 single-story homes with five floorplans ranging between 1,574 and 2,250 square feet at Sedona @ Palo Verde.

7 Sep 2015

Fluor to Handle Front-End Work for PTT Global Chemical’s Petrochemical Complex in Ohio

Fluor Corporation announced today that PTT Global Chemical Public Company (PTTGC) has selected a Fluor-led team to perform front-end engineering and design work for its proposed petrochemical complex in Belmont County, Ohio. The team includes Fluor, Technip and SK E&C. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value into backlog in the third quarter of 2015.

7 Sep 2015

University of Utah Holds Grand Opening Ceremony for New State-of-the Art Law School Building

The University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law announced a new initiative this week to reach a goal of 100 percent bar passage and 100 percent professional employment placement among its law school graduates.

7 Sep 2015

Advanced Camera Provides Live Streaming Video of Detroit Events Center Construction

Olympia Development of Michigan announced today the launch of a 24/7 live streaming webcam that will allow people worldwide to see real-time, rapid progress being made on construction of The District Detroit and the new Detroit Events Center.

4 Sep 2015

Six-Year Delay in Starting Construction on Public Projects Costs Nation over $3.7 Trillion, Shows New Report

Delays in approving infrastructure projects cost the nation more than twice what it would cost to fix the infrastructure, according to a new report released today by Common Good, the nonpartisan government reform coalition. Those approvals can take a decade or longer, and the report shows that a six-year delay in starting construction on public projects costs the nation over $3.7 trillion, including the costs of prolonged inefficiencies and unnecessary pollution. That's more than double the $1.7 trillion needed through the end of this decade to modernize America's decrepit infrastructure.

4 Sep 2015

BuilderMT Wins Gold Vision Award from Constructech

BuilderMT, the widely-acknowledged market share leader in workflow management solutions for mid-market home builders, today announced that it has won its 36th technology award, a Gold Vision award from Constructech.

4 Sep 2015

BCBSGa Opens New Office Building Developed by The Molasky Group

A new office building developed by The Molasky Group for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia (BCBSGa), the state's largest health solutions company, opens today in the Muscogee Technology Park in Columbus. The new 235,000 square foot facility will house approximately 1500 employees and will be BCBSGa's main hub for servicing its nearly 3 million members with healthcare plans, including medical, dental, life and specialty programs.

4 Sep 2015

Graton Resort & Casino Announces Groundbreaking for $175 Million Resort Expansion

The leadership of the Federated Indians of the Graton Rancheria broke ground today on a $175 million expansion of the Graton Resort & Casino, the Bay Area’s largest gaming and entertainment destination. The expansion includes a 200-guest room resort that also features a spa, meeting and convention space, and pool area.

4 Sep 2015

Kilroy Realty Hosts Ground-Breaking Ceremony in Mission Bay Submarket, San Francisco

Kilroy Realty Corporation launched its third San Francisco ground-up development project yesterday with a ground-breaking ceremony that featured Mayor Ed Lee and Tiffany Bohee, Executive Director, Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure.

4 Sep 2015

Clune Completes Construction of Virgin Atlantic Airways Clubhouse at Los Angeles International Airport

Clune Construction is pleased to announce that the firm has completed its construction of the Virgin Atlantic Airways Clubhouse located in Terminal 2 of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, California.

3 Sep 2015

Preston Meadows Community in Canada Receives LEED Neighbourhood Development Certification

After working with the US and Canada Green Building Councils for eight years, helping them refine and launch their LEED for Neighbourhood Developments (LEED-ND) program, Reid's Heritage Homes is proud to announce that its Preston Meadows community on Margaret Street in Cambridge, Ontario is the first pilot community to be fully Certified as a LEED Neighbourhood Development in Canada.

3 Sep 2015

ORNL Offers Automated Calibration Software for Building Efficiency Studies as Open Source Code

A set of automated calibration techniques for tuning residential and commercial building energy efficiency software models to match measured data is now available as an open source code. The Autotune code, developed at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is available on GitHub.

3 Sep 2015

Termite Mounds Could Inspire Efficient Ventilation in Buildings

As animal architects go, the average termite doesn't have many tools at their disposal - just their bodies, soil and saliva. And as guidance, variations in wind speed and direction and daily fluctuations in temperature as the sun rises and sets.

3 Sep 2015

Aarsleff Enters Contract with Maersk Group to Construct New Office Building in Copenhagen

Per Aarsleff A/S has entered into a contract for the construction of a new office building for the Maersk Group at Amerika Plads in Copenhagen’s North Harbour.

3 Sep 2015

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Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas Awards $500,000 Affordable Housing Program Grant

San Joaquin Valley Homes to Break Ground on First Phase of Palo Verde Project in Tulare

Fluor to Handle Front-End Work for PTT Global Chemical’s Petrochemical Complex in Ohio

University of Utah Holds Grand Opening Ceremony for New State-of-the Art Law School Building

Advanced Camera Provides Live Streaming Video of Detroit Events Center Construction

Six-Year Delay in Starting Construction on Public Projects Costs Nation over $3.7 Trillion, Shows New Report

BuilderMT Wins Gold Vision Award from Constructech

BCBSGa Opens New Office Building Developed by The Molasky Group

Graton Resort & Casino Announces Groundbreaking for $175 Million Resort Expansion

Kilroy Realty Hosts Ground-Breaking Ceremony in Mission Bay Submarket, San Francisco

Clune Completes Construction of Virgin Atlantic Airways Clubhouse at Los Angeles International Airport

Preston Meadows Community in Canada Receives LEED Neighbourhood Development Certification

ORNL Offers Automated Calibration Software for Building Efficiency Studies as Open Source Code

Termite Mounds Could Inspire Efficient Ventilation in Buildings

Aarsleff Enters Contract with Maersk Group to Construct New Office Building in Copenhagen

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