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Swinerton Builders San Diego Completes New Boutique Hotel in Gaslamp Quarter

Swinerton Builders San Diego recently completed work on Hotel Z, bringing a contemporary new must-stay destination to Southern California visitors.

13 Jul 2015

Aspect Home Builders Begins Assembling of BONE Structure Home in Saskatoon

Aspect Home Builders, a BONE Structure?authorized builder, is currently assembling the first BONE Structure home in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

10 Jul 2015

Arup Commences Construction of 150,000-Square-Foot Bloomberg Centre on Cornell Tech Campus

Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm with a reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs, recently celebrated the commencement of construction of the 150,000 SF Bloomberg Center, the first academic building on the Cornell Tech campus, designed to achieve net zero energy and LEED Platinum certification.

10 Jul 2015

Green Buildings Have Significant Health Benefits for People

Better for nature, better for business: How a green building influences the health of its occupants

10 Jul 2015

Fiber-Reinforced, Concrete-Like Rock Discovered in Depths of Dormant Supervolcano

The discovery of a fiber-reinforced, concrete-like rock formed in the depths of a dormant supervolcano could help explain the unusual ground swelling that led to the evacuation of an Italian port city and inspire durable building materials in the future, Stanford scientists say.

10 Jul 2015

PDO and GlassPoint Solar to Build 1,021MW Solar Thermal Facility in South Oman

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO), the largest producer of oil and gas in Oman, and GlassPoint Solar, the leader in solar enhanced oil recovery (EOR), today announced plans to build one of the world? largest solar plants.

10 Jul 2015

New Wind Education Center to be Built by GE in Shenyang, China

GE today announced that it will build a new wind education center in Shenyang, China. The approximately 500-square-meter facility will be built on the same campus as GE? current manufacturing operation in Shenyang. Located in the largest city of Liaoning Province, the new education center will offer a variety of training courses intended for GE field personnel, customer technicians, subcontractors and other external stakeholders.

10 Jul 2015

Luxor Begins Production of Architectural Wood Products for Woodtone Industries

Luxor Industrial Corporation is pleased to announce that it has commenced manufacturing architectural wood products for Woodtone Industries based in Chilliwack, British Columbia.

9 Jul 2015

KB Home Opens New Miller Ranch Community in Converse

KB Home (NYSE: KBH), one of the nation’s largest and most recognized homebuilders, today announced the grand opening of its new Miller Ranch community in Converse, which offers spacious one- and two-story energy-efficient floor plans with easy access to IH-35, IH-10 and Loop 1604.

9 Jul 2015

ClarkDietrich Receives ISO-Compliant Environmental Product Declarations for Steel Product Portfolio

ClarkDietrich Building Systems, the largest manufacturer of cold-formed steel framing in North America, announced today a milestone in its ongoing commitment to supplying high-quality, environmentally responsible products. ClarkDietrich received third party-verified ISO-compliant Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for its complete steel product portfolio, including its popular ProSTUD® and ProSTUD® with DiamondPlus™ Steel Framing Systems.

9 Jul 2015

Cielo and TIER REIT Partner to Build 28-Story Office Tower in Downtown Austin

Austin-based Cielo Property Group and TIER REIT, Inc. a Dallas-based real estate investment trust, have partnered to build a unique 349,000-square-foot office tower in downtown Austin featuring a strong connection to the outdoors by designing multiple outdoor decks overlooking Shoal Creek and also featuring several floors of flexible creative office space, unlike anything currently in the Austin market.

9 Jul 2015

Bauart Wins Best Architects Award 16 for Nebikon Swisswoodhouse Housing Building

The architectural firm Bauart, of which Prof. Emmanuel Rey of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) is a partner, was awarded a "Best Architects Award 16" for the achievement of the Swisswoodhouse housing building in Nebikon, Switzerland.

9 Jul 2015

Fixing up Abandoned Buildings Eliminates Eyesores and Reduces Crime, Violence

Fixing up abandoned buildings in the inner city doesn't just eliminate eyesores, it can also significantly reduce crime and violence, including gun assaults, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Penn's Perelman School of Medicine report in the first study to demonstrate the direct impact of building remediation efforts on crime. The findings were published this week in the journal PLOS ONE.

9 Jul 2015

New Fully Automatic GEZE Powerturn Swing Door Drive Wins 2015 X Plus Award

The new fully automatic GEZE Powerturn swing door drive was recently awarded the Innovation Prize at the 2015 X Plus Award, the world's largest innovation prize for technology in the categories High Quality, Design and Functionality. In addition, the top-class specialist jury awarded the "powerful drive" with the title of "Best Product of the Year 2015" seal of quality.

9 Jul 2015

EuroSite Power to Provide 100kW Combined Heat and Power System for New Flitwick Leisure Centre

EuroSite Power Inc., On-Site Utility™ solutions provider, offering clean electricity, heat, hot water and cooling solutions to hospitality, healthcare, housing and leisure centers in the United Kingdom (UK) and Europe, has signed an agreement worth approximately £1.23 (US$1.97) million with Stevenage Leisure Limited to provide a solution for the new Flitwick Leisure Centre currently under construction in Flitwick Bedfordshire, UK.

8 Jul 2015