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Architectural Products Magazine Presents Product Innovation Award to Amerlux FINO Ceiling

The elegant, gracefully slim FINO Ceiling from Amerlux has received a Product Innovation Award in the Interior Lighting Category, from Architectural Products magazine, according to Amerlux® CEO/President Chuck Campagna. FINO, the first ultra shallow asymmetric indirect lighting fixture, has been re-designed and re-engineered for wall washing from ceiling mounts, supplementing the current FINO Wall Mount which is capable of providing indirect lighting on floors or ceilings for the commercial and hospitality market segments.

24 Nov 2014

Construction Begins on HARMAN’s New North American Automotive Headquarters

HARMAN International Industries, Incorporated, the premier audio, visual, infotainment and enterprise automation group, broke ground today on its new North American Automotive Headquarters.

24 Nov 2014

Almond Ridge Single-Family Home Community Opened in Antioch, California

KB Home, one of the nation’s largest and most recognized homebuilders, and one of the most active in the Bay Area, today announced the grand opening of its Almond Ridge community in the popular East Bay city of Antioch, Calif. The new community will offer homebuyers the opportunity to live in a new KB home within minutes of major highways, employment corridors and popular outdoor recreation venues.

24 Nov 2014

Bechtel-led Project Earns AIChE’s 2014 Engineering and Construction Award

Bechtel announced today that the project team at the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant has received the American Institute of Chemical Engineers' 2014 Engineering and Construction Award, one of the organization's most prestigious honors.

24 Nov 2014

Endicott College Receives Grant to Study Feasibility of Constructing Zero Net Energy Building

Endicott College is proud to announce it has been awarded $24,500 by the state to study the feasibility of designing and building a zero net energy building (ZNEB) on its campus in Beverly, Mass. The grant is one of 25 awarded by the Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA), Maeve Bartlett, as part of the Pathways to Zero Grant Program.

24 Nov 2014

UPM Kymi Celebrates Topping Out Ceremony for Pulp Mill Production Expansion Project

Today UPM Kymi celebrated the topping out ceremony for its pulp mill production expansion project, KYMI700: the new pulp drying machine, debarking plant and modernisation of the softwood fibre line. A total of around 200 participants are invited in the celebrations including those working on the project and guests.

21 Nov 2014

Peab to Expand Hemfosa-Tungelsta Rail Line

Peab has been contracted to a turnkey contract to build the rail line Hemfosa-Tungelsta in Haninge with double track. The client is the Swedish Transport Administration and the contract amounts to about SEK 229 million.

21 Nov 2014

ITER Council Welcomes Completion of Tokamak Complex Foundation

Convening for its fifteenth meeting in St Paul-lez-Durance, France, the ITER Council welcomed the completion of Tokamak Complex foundations and the start of construction on the facility’s walls.

21 Nov 2014

New Report on Intelligent Building Automation Technologies Market

Major social, economic, technological and environmental trends are changing the way we work and learn. These changes will in turn create a rise in demand for commercial buildings. There would be an increase in personalized control of lighting, temperature, ventilation and other aspects of interior environment to enhance the productivity of knowledge workers.

21 Nov 2014

New Root Inhibiting Drain Pipe Adhesive from T. Christy

T. Christy Enterprises launches the first and only drain pipe adhesive that seals joints and prevents root intrusion in underground drainage pipe. The new patent-pending adhesive – called ROOT-BAN™ Drain Pipe Adhesive – contains a proprietary chemical formulation that creates a leak-proof seal.

21 Nov 2014

Architectural Products Magazine Honors TERRALUX R20 LED Spot Engine with Innovation Award

TERRALUX Inc. announces that its R20 LED Spot Engine has received the 2014 Product Innovation Award (PIA) from Architectural Products Magazine. These awards champion product ingenuity in the built environment.

21 Nov 2014

EHTP Breaks Ground on $30 Million State-of-the-Art East Harlem Education Center

East Harlem Tutorial Program (EHTP), the community-based operator of college prep after-school programs and public charter schools, broke ground today on the East Harlem Education Center, a $30 million state-of-the-art facility that addresses the desperate need for more quality public education space in the area.

20 Nov 2014

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span Receives IRF Global Road Achievement Award

T.Y. Lin International (TYLI), a globally recognized full-service infrastructure consulting firm, announces that the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span (East Span) has received the International Road Federation’s (IRF) 2014 Global Road Achievement Award for Design.

20 Nov 2014

Harvard Art Museums Open After Renovation and Expansion

Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm with a reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs, announced today it joined Harvard University in celebrating the grand opening of the Harvard Art Museums.

20 Nov 2014

CHTF to Launch Green Building Theme Exhibition Area This Year

Recently, the term of low-carbon, sustainability and energy conservation frequently combines with construction; hence the concept of green building becomes increasingly popular. The CHTF 2014 which is held from November 16 to 21 is going to launch a green building theme exhibition area in Hall 1 of Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center, which will show the real application of green product in construction and building, and focus on displaying the future green buildings.

20 Nov 2014

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Architectural Products Magazine Presents Product Innovation Award to Amerlux FINO Ceiling

Construction Begins on HARMAN’s New North American Automotive Headquarters

Almond Ridge Single-Family Home Community Opened in Antioch, California

Bechtel-led Project Earns AIChE’s 2014 Engineering and Construction Award

Endicott College Receives Grant to Study Feasibility of Constructing Zero Net Energy Building

UPM Kymi Celebrates Topping Out Ceremony for Pulp Mill Production Expansion Project

Peab to Expand Hemfosa-Tungelsta Rail Line

ITER Council Welcomes Completion of Tokamak Complex Foundation

New Report on Intelligent Building Automation Technologies Market

New Root Inhibiting Drain Pipe Adhesive from T. Christy

Architectural Products Magazine Honors TERRALUX R20 LED Spot Engine with Innovation Award

EHTP Breaks Ground on $30 Million State-of-the-Art East Harlem Education Center

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span Receives IRF Global Road Achievement Award

Harvard Art Museums Open After Renovation and Expansion

CHTF to Launch Green Building Theme Exhibition Area This Year

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