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Aterra Offers Web-Based Tools for Remote Specification of Lighting Packages for New Homes

Aterra Lighting Design & Control, a widely admired innovator in lighting design, announced that it now offers home builders access to web-based tools that allow customers to remotely spec lighting packages for their new homes, regardless of the customers’ location.

3 Dec 2014

TERRALUX SR95 Surface Mount LED Retrofit Kit Receives UL and ENERGY STAR CSD Certification

TERRALUX announces that its SR95 Surface Mount LED Retrofit Kit has been UL and ENERGY STAR CSD certified. The SR95 replaces pin-based CFLs and ballasts in commercial wall sconces. The SR95 improves fixture light output and color quality, and consumes 75% less energy than CFLs.

3 Dec 2014

Challenge to Design Sustainable Campus in Dubai

Design a sustainable campus able to host 2400 students with the highest standards of education (Florimont Institute of Geneva), and consuming half the energy used by standard buildings? And if the campus is built in a hot environment, such as the city of Dubai, where summer temperatures reach 49 °C?

3 Dec 2014

VCU’s Children’s Hospital of Richmond Celebrates Topping Out Ceremony for Children’s Pavilion

Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University (CHoR) on Monday “topped out” its new Children’s Pavilion, marking the placement of the highest steel beam of the pavilion’s 15-story structural frame.

3 Dec 2014

New Report Analyzes Structural Building Materials Market in United Kingdom

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Structural Building Materials Market in United Kingdom: Business Report 2014" report to their offering.

2 Dec 2014

CEMEX Announces Resumption of Tepeaca Cement Plant Expansion

CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V. (“CEMEX”) announced today the restart of the Tepeaca cement plant expansion. By 2017 the total production capacity will reach 7.6 million tons per year. Total investment is estimated to be approximately US$650 million.

2 Dec 2014

AZEK Recycled Pavers Help Transform Unsightly Painted Deck into Attractive Living Space

Dale's Remodeling of Salem, Oregon, has proven that a greener choice can be beautiful and functional. Using AZEK Pavers, made with up to 95% recycled scrap tires and plastics, the team from Dale's Remodeling recently transformed Anita and Mike Kennedy's unsightly painted deck into a living space they can be proud of.

2 Dec 2014

New KB Homes Now Available at La Ventana Community in California

KB Home, one of the nation’s largest and most recognized homebuilders, today announced the grand opening of its La Ventana community in Rancho Cucamonga, where the builder is offering large homes on expansive, half-acre lots close to premier shopping and dining destinations, major transportation corridors and abundant outdoor recreation opportunities.

2 Dec 2014

Axalta Expands Global Product Portfolio to Include Alesta Global Color Collection

Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings, announces the expansion of its global product portfolio to include the Alesta® Global Color Collection, an architectural powder coatings line.

2 Dec 2014

ThyssenKrupp Introduces New MULTI Elevator Technology

ThyssenKrupp, a global technologies and materials group, unveiled its new MULTI elevator technology, enabling the vertical and horizontal operation of multiple cars in a single elevator shaft through the ground-breaking cable-free elevator system. The revolutionary MULTI elevator technology utilizes linear motors in elevator cabins, along with horizontal shaft-changing cabin systems to increase capacity while reducing both the elevator footprint and energy consumption.

2 Dec 2014

Ossen Innovation to Supply Prestressed Concrete Strands/Wires for Bridge Construction in China

Ossen Innovation Co., Ltd. ("Ossen" or the "Company"), a China-based manufacturer of an array of plain surface, rare earth and zinc coated pre-stressed steel materials, today announced that it has been awarded approximately $11.4 million contracts to supply its prestressed concrete ("PC") strands/wires, both plain surface and coated, for the construction of three bridges in Jiaozuo, Henan Province, Ji'an, Jiangxi Province, and Zhaoqing, Guangdong Province. The construction of these bridges are expected to last over one year with delivery of our products to start in December 2014.

2 Dec 2014

Comprehensive Business Report on UK Market for Special Building Materials

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Special Building Materials Market in United Kingdom: Business Report 2014" report to their offering.

2 Dec 2014

Hawaii Community Development Authority Approves Ward Village Gateway

The Howard Hughes Corporation® announced today the next milestone in the transformation of Ward Village. The company has received approval from the Hawai‘i Community Development Authority for Ward Village Gateway, the first residential and commercial development in Phase Two of the Ward Village Master Plan, a 60-acre master planned community located in the Kaka‘ako district of Honolulu. Ward Village Gateway will include a public park and two mixed-use towers with approximately 236 total residences and 20,000 square feet of retail.

2 Dec 2014

Mexichem Announces Completion of VESTOLIT Acquisition

Mexichem, S.A.B. de C.V. (“the Company” or “Mexichem”) announced that today it completed the acquisition of VESTOLIT GmbH (Vesto PVC Holding GmbH, “VESTOLIT”).

2 Dec 2014

The "Passerelle du Millénaire" Rewarded by 2014 Swiss Award for Pedestrian Infrastructures

The "Passerelle du Millénaire" (Millennium Gateway) developed by Bauart, of which Prof. Emmanuel Rey from the Laboratory of Architecture and sustainable development (LAST) is partner, was rewarded by the 2014 Swiss Award for Pedestrian Infrastructures ("Flâneur d’Or 2014"). This realization, which forms part of Ecoparc neighborhood, aims at fostering sustainable mobility in the framework of a significant urban regeneration process.

1 Dec 2014