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Rice University to Commence Construction on New $2 Million Soccer, Track and Field Facility

Rice University will begin construction soon on a new $2 million grandstand, enclosed press box and team facilities for soccer and men’s and women’s track and field and cross country.

5 Jun 2015

CertusView Launches New Licensing Program for Microtrenching Construction Technology

CertusView Technologies, LLC announced today that it has launched a new licensing program for its innovative patented "Microtrenching" construction technology through its affiliate, CertusView Solutions, LLC. U.S. Patent No. 8,480,332 (issued on July 9, 2013).

5 Jun 2015

Thermal and Acoustical Insulation Products Fabricator, IFI, Acquired by Distribution International

Distribution International, Inc. (DI) announced the acquisition of Insulation Fabricators Inc. (IFI), a leading fabricator and distributor of thermal and acoustical insulation products. Headquartered near Chicago in Hammond, Indiana, IFI expands DI’s Midwestern footprint with additional locations in Ohio and West Virginia. Houston-based DI, a portfolio company of global private equity firm Advent International, is a leader in the mechanical insulation market.

5 Jun 2015

Locum Commissions NCC to Expand Södersjukhuset Hospital in Stockholm

NCC has been commissioned by Locum to expand the Södersjukhuset Hospital in Stockholm by adding a new treatment center and an operation and maintenance building. The order is worth about SEK 1 billion and will be registered among orders in three stages.

5 Jun 2015

PPG Expands Central American Operations with Acquisition of Paint Store Operator, Consorcio Latinoamericano

PPG Industries today announced that it has acquired Consorcio Latinoamericano, which operates a network of 57 paint stores in Central America. Financial terms were not disclosed.

4 Jun 2015

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

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Rice University to Commence Construction on New $2 Million Soccer, Track and Field Facility

CertusView Launches New Licensing Program for Microtrenching Construction Technology

Thermal and Acoustical Insulation Products Fabricator, IFI, Acquired by Distribution International

Locum Commissions NCC to Expand Södersjukhuset Hospital in Stockholm

PPG Expands Central American Operations with Acquisition of Paint Store Operator, Consorcio Latinoamericano

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

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