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U.S. Concrete Announces Sale Completion of Remaining Assets of Precast Concrete Operation

U.S. Concrete, Inc. announced today that it has completed the sale of the remaining assets of the U.S. Concrete Precast Group, which consisted of an architectural precast plant operating in Middleburg, PA. The transaction represents the final divestiture of the Company's owned assets relating to precast concrete operations.

4 Jun 2015

Comprehensive Report on Chinese Market for Roofing Materials

China's demand for Roofing Materials has grown at a fast pace in the past decade. In the next decade, both production and demand will continue to grow. The Chinese economy maintains a high speed growth which has been stimulated by the consecutive increases of industrial output, import & export, consumer consumption and capital investment for over two decades.

4 Jun 2015

Greening Homes’ Beechwood Project Earns Coveted Canadian Green Building Award

Greening Homes is thrilled to announce that its Beechwood Project – a deep energy retrofit of a post-World War II bungalow in Toronto's East York area – is the recipient of the prestigious Canadian Green Building Award in the residential project category. Christopher Phillips and Steven Gray, Greening Homes' respective President and Construction Manager, accepted the award today at the National Conference of the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) at the Vancouver Convention Centre.

4 Jun 2015

Construction Commences on First WoodSpring Suites Hotel in Romeoville, Illinois

WoodSpring Suites, formerly Value Place, the nation’s fastest-growing extended-stay hotel brand has partnered with Holladay Properties to build the first WoodSpring Suites hotel in Romeoville, Illinois. The property, which will be located at 1093 Windham Parkway, broke ground on June 2nd.

4 Jun 2015

Ridge Development Begins Construction on 784,000-Square-Foot Speculative Building in Duke Perris Logistics Center

Ridge Development, the industrial development arm of Transwestern Development Co., today announces speculative construction has commenced on the first building in a planned two-building project owned and managed by Indianapolis-based Duke Realty Corp.. Duke Perris Logistics Center is located at 3300 – 3500 Indian Ave. in Perris, California.

4 Jun 2015

Lucideon Publishes Energy Saving Technical Paper on UK’s Approach to Insulating Fabric of Existing Masonry Houses

Lucideon, the international materials consultancy, is pleased to announce the publication of the technical paper ‘Energy Saving: The UK Approach to Insulating the Fabric of Existing Masonry Houses’.

From Lucideon 4 Jun 2015

McCarthy to Construct Silicon Ranch’s 12MWAC Solar Power Project in East Camden, Arkansas

Nashville-based renewable energy provider Silicon Ranch Corporation and the Phoenix-based renewable energy team of McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. announce the selection of McCarthy to engineer and construct Silicon Ranch’s Highland Industrial Park 12-Megawatt (MW)AC solar power project that will provide power to Aerojet Rocketdyne and Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation (AECC) in East Camden, Arkansas.

4 Jun 2015

Tindall Uses Precast Concrete Wall Panels to Build Virginia’s First Public Middle School

Tindall Corporation, a national leader in precast concrete, worked with the Isle of Wight County Schools in Windsor, VA to help build Georgie D. Tyler Middle School, the state’s first public middle school to use high performance structural and architectural precast concrete wall panels.

3 Jun 2015

Installed Building Products Acquires Layman Brothers Contracting Located in Virginia

Installed Building Products, Inc. (the "Company"), an industry-leading installer of insulation and other complementary building products, announced today the acquisition of Layman Brothers Contracting ("Layman") based in Powhatan, Virginia.

3 Jun 2015

Hudson Pacific Properties Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for State-of-the-Art, Creative Office Tower in Hollywood

Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. (“Hudson” or the “Company”) held a celebratory groundbreaking today for ICON, its nearly $200 million state-of-the-art, creative office tower located on the 10.6-acre Sunset Bronson Studios lot on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell joined Hudson’s senior management, as well as other business and civic leaders, at the construction site for the event.

3 Jun 2015

Memorial Hermann Commences $650 Million Expansion and Renovation Project at its Texas Medical Center Campus

Memorial Hermann broke ground Wednesday, May 27 on the $650 million expansion and renovation of its Texas Medical Center (TMC) Campus. As the Houston region's only full-service health system, this expansion will enable Memorial Hermann to stay ahead of the fast-growing advances in medicine, keep pace with the extraordinary growth of the city and, most importantly, meet the health needs of the community for years to come.

3 Jun 2015

Green Cross Biotherapeutics Commences $315 Million Project on its Biopharmaceutical Facility

This is with great pride that Green Cross Biotherapeutics Inc. (GCBT) kicked off construction today on its biopharmaceutical facility that will be located on the Montréal Technoparc's Saint-Laurent Campus. The $315 million project represents one of the largest green field investment projects in Canada in the biopharmaceutical industry, giving place to the construction of the only intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and albumin manufacturing plant in Canada.

3 Jun 2015

Ridge Development Commences Construction of Two 245,000 SF Buildings in Lakeland, Florida

Ridge Development, the industrial development arm of Transwestern Development Co., today announces construction has commenced on a 245,000-square-foot Class A, distribution building − the first of two buildings in a new 46.5-acre business park called Lakeland Logistics Center.

3 Jun 2015

U.S. Concrete Acquires Assets of DuBrook Concrete Located in Greater Washington

U.S. Concrete, Inc. announced today that it has acquired the assets of DuBrook Concrete, Inc. ("DuBrook"), in Chantilly, VA., located within the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

3 Jun 2015

Skanska to Construct New Building for Sør-Trøndelag University College in Trondheim, Norway

Skanska has signed a contract with E.C. Dahls Eiendom AS to refurbish existing facilities and construct new buildings at Sør-Trøndelag University College in Trondheim, Norway. The total contract is worth about NOK 280 M, about SEK 300 M, and will be included in order bookings for Skanska Norway for the second quarter of 2015.

3 Jun 2015

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U.S. Concrete Announces Sale Completion of Remaining Assets of Precast Concrete Operation

Comprehensive Report on Chinese Market for Roofing Materials

Greening Homes’ Beechwood Project Earns Coveted Canadian Green Building Award

Construction Commences on First WoodSpring Suites Hotel in Romeoville, Illinois

Ridge Development Begins Construction on 784,000-Square-Foot Speculative Building in Duke Perris Logistics Center

Lucideon Publishes Energy Saving Technical Paper on UK’s Approach to Insulating Fabric of Existing Masonry Houses

McCarthy to Construct Silicon Ranch’s 12MWAC Solar Power Project in East Camden, Arkansas

Tindall Uses Precast Concrete Wall Panels to Build Virginia’s First Public Middle School

Installed Building Products Acquires Layman Brothers Contracting Located in Virginia

Hudson Pacific Properties Holds Groundbreaking Ceremony for State-of-the-Art, Creative Office Tower in Hollywood

Memorial Hermann Commences $650 Million Expansion and Renovation Project at its Texas Medical Center Campus

Green Cross Biotherapeutics Commences $315 Million Project on its Biopharmaceutical Facility

Ridge Development Commences Construction of Two 245,000 SF Buildings in Lakeland, Florida

U.S. Concrete Acquires Assets of DuBrook Concrete Located in Greater Washington

Skanska to Construct New Building for Sør-Trøndelag University College in Trondheim, Norway

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