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Crescent Communities Breaks Ground on 252-Unit Luxury Apartment Complex in Franklin, Nashville

Crescent Communities has broken ground on Crescent Cool Springs, a 13-acre, 252-unit multifamily community located in Nashville’s historic Franklin suburb, a location that will help residents achieve their desired life balance of work and play.

26 Sep 2013

Georgia-Pacific Gypsum's DensDeck® Prime Roof Board Demonstrates High Flexural Strength in Third-Party Tests

Georgia-Pacific Gypsum's recently enhanced DensDeck® Prime Roof Board has demonstrated – in third-party tests–significant attributes that boost job site efficiency.

26 Sep 2013

New Innovations Added to PeoplesBank Latest LEED Registered Office

PeoplesBank has literally found a way for customers to get a charge out of their banking. They will need an electric vehicle, however, to take advantage of the free EV charging station at the newest office at 300 King Street in Northampton, MA.

26 Sep 2013

LEED Certification Awarded to KPMG's Denver Office

The Denver office of KPMG LLP, the U.S. audit, tax and advisory firm, has received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Commercial Interior certification for its new office space from the U.S. Green Building Council.

26 Sep 2013

Shaw Commits Additional Investment to Meet Growing Demand for Epic Engineered Flooring Product

Berkshire Hathaway’s Shaw Industries Group, Inc. (Shaw) will invest at least $40 million and hire more than 25 new associates in South Pittsburg, Tenn., to meet the growing demand for its Epic® engineered flooring product.

25 Sep 2013

Acrow to Supply 79-Meter Clear Span Vehicular Bridge to AV Group New Brunswick

Acrow Bridge, a leading international bridge engineering and supply company, today announced an agreement to supply AV Group New Brunswick with a 79-meter (259-foot) clear span bridge to support logging operations. When installed, the prefabricated modular steel bridge will be the longest clear span vehicular bridge supplied by Acrow to date in Canada.

25 Sep 2013

Aircuity to Provide Laboratory Ventilation Optimization Solution for Lazare Medical Research Facility

Aircuity, the safe, smart and efficient airside solutions company, announced today that it has been awarded an energy retrofit contract to provide its laboratory ventilation optimization solution for the Lazare Medical Research Facility on the University of Massachusetts Medical School campus in Worcester, MA.

25 Sep 2013

Pemex Awards ICA Fluor JV $95 Million Contract to Develop Miguel Hidalgo Refinery

Fluor Corporation announced today that its ICA Fluor industrial engineering-construction joint venture with Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: ICA) (NYSE: ICA) was awarded an additional new $95 million contract by Pemex to develop the first phase of the overall project to reconfigure the Miguel Hidalgo Refinery, located in Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico. Fluor will book its $48 million share of the contract in the third quarter of 2013.

25 Sep 2013

Autodesk and TCEL Partner to Deliver Building Information Modeling Solutions

Autodesk, Inc., a world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software and Tata Consulting Engineers Ltd. (TCEL), India’s leading engineering consultant today announced a strategic partnership to deliver industry solution experiences to customers in plant, infrastructure, construction and building sectors.

25 Sep 2013

Architecture Students Help Transform Tai Chi’s Birth Town

Architecture students from the University of Sheffield have been invited to China to help in the development one of the country’s most historic towns.

25 Sep 2013

Tishman Speyer Initiates JV with Shanghai Lujiazui Group to Build Mixed-Use Development

Tishman Speyer, one of the world's leading developers, owners, operators, and asset managers of first-class real estate, along with joint venture partner Shanghai Lujiazui Group, today announced plans for a mixed-use development in Shanghai totaling over 3 million square feet.

25 Sep 2013

Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute to be Published by Maney

Maney Publishing has partnered with the Deep Foundations Institute to publish DFI Journal - The Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute from 2014. The DFI Journal publishes papers related to the broad area of deep foundations engineering and construction. Published biannually, the journal is an information resource for the design and construction of foundations and excavations.

25 Sep 2013

GEI Global Energy and Owl Eco Group Enter LOI to Build 100 MW Power Plant in Western Pennsylvania

GEI GLOBAL ENERGY CORP September 23, 2013 announced today that the Company has entered into a Letter Of Intent (LOI) with Owl Eco Group, "the developer" to build a 100 Megawatt Power Plant located in Western Pennsylvania, within the massive Marcellus shale natural gas fields.

24 Sep 2013

PrimeComposite Named Among Top 100 Finalists for 12th Annual Chicago Innovation Awards

Out of a record-breaking 562 nominees, Rabine Group's PrimeComposite has been selected as one of the Top 100 Finalists still in the running for the 12th annual Chicago Innovation Awards. The awards celebrate the most innovative new products and services in the Chicago region across all organization sizes, sectors and industries. 1500 business and civic leaders will come together to honor the winners when they are announced on October 30th at Chicago's Harris Theater.

24 Sep 2013

Huber Engineered Woods’ ZIP System R-Sheathing Insulated Structural Panel Achieves ICC-ES Code Approval

Huber Engineered Woods LLC, leading manufacturer of innovative building solutions, today announced its ZIP System® R-Sheathing is the first insulated structural panel to achieve code approval under the International Code Council Evaluation Service's (ICC-ES) updated acceptance criteria for proprietary sheathing panels.

24 Sep 2013

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Crescent Communities Breaks Ground on 252-Unit Luxury Apartment Complex in Franklin, Nashville

Georgia-Pacific Gypsum's DensDeck® Prime Roof Board Demonstrates High Flexural Strength in Third-Party Tests

New Innovations Added to PeoplesBank Latest LEED Registered Office

LEED Certification Awarded to KPMG's Denver Office

Shaw Commits Additional Investment to Meet Growing Demand for Epic Engineered Flooring Product

Acrow to Supply 79-Meter Clear Span Vehicular Bridge to AV Group New Brunswick

Aircuity to Provide Laboratory Ventilation Optimization Solution for Lazare Medical Research Facility

Pemex Awards ICA Fluor JV $95 Million Contract to Develop Miguel Hidalgo Refinery

Autodesk and TCEL Partner to Deliver Building Information Modeling Solutions

Architecture Students Help Transform Tai Chi’s Birth Town

Tishman Speyer Initiates JV with Shanghai Lujiazui Group to Build Mixed-Use Development

Journal of the Deep Foundations Institute to be Published by Maney

GEI Global Energy and Owl Eco Group Enter LOI to Build 100 MW Power Plant in Western Pennsylvania

PrimeComposite Named Among Top 100 Finalists for 12th Annual Chicago Innovation Awards

Huber Engineered Woods’ ZIP System R-Sheathing Insulated Structural Panel Achieves ICC-ES Code Approval

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Sustainable Challenges in the Cement Industry

Discussing Construction Heritage and Preservation with Dr. Silke Langenberg

Providing Emergency Accommodation with Modular Shelters

Construction Trends

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Trending Stories

1UBC Researchers Design Electrochemical System to Recycle Cement and Slash Emissions

2Researchers Develop High-Strength Construction Materials From Industrial and Agricultural Waste

3Reinforced-Concrete Logic Gives Metals a Breakthrough in High-Temperature Strength

4Can Waste From Nickel Production Create Better Concrete? This Study Says Yes

5Biomass Innovation Reshapes Sustainable Construction

6Scientists Engineer Concrete That Heals Itself Using Bacteria