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Smart Meter Data and Behavioral Coaching Help Military Homes Reduce Energy Consumption

Balfour Beatty Communities, LLC, a leading provider of property management, development and related real estate services for the multifamily, military, and student housing markets, today announced results from its home energy efficiency program that was piloted this spring in more than 3,900 military family homes under Balfour Beatty Communities’ Navy Southeast Region Military Housing Privatization Project.

From Balfour Beatty 13 Aug 2013

TEEMCO Acquires Architecturally Historic Gold Dome Building

The Gold Dome building based on Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome will be preserved. TEEMCO, an Oklahoma-based environmental professional engineering firm has purchased the architecturally historic Gold Dome building located on legendary Route 66. As one of the first geodesic domes in the world, the Gold Dome is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places.

13 Aug 2013

New Seniors’ Housing Project in Winkler Receives Federal and Provincial Funding

A new seniors’ housing project, led by H.F. Wiebe Active Living Centre Inc. in Winkler, will receive $2.88 million in federal and provincial funding.

12 Aug 2013

YIT and Caverion Partner to Expand Espoo Lintuvaara School

Caverion and YIT have today, on 9 August 2013, jointly entered into an agreement with the City of Espoo to carry out the renovation and expansion of Lintuvaara school and day care centre using the life cycle model.

12 Aug 2013

New Report on Paints and Varnishes Market in the Czech Republic

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Paints and Varnishes in the Czech Republic to 2016: Market Databook" report to their offering.

12 Aug 2013

University of Cincinnati Students Win Prizes in International Store Design Competition

University of Cincinnati students Lauren Hillner, 21, of Cincinnati’s North College Hill neighborhood, recently won first prize, and Samantha O’Connor, 21, of Perrysburg, Ohio, recently won third prize in the prestigious 2013 International Student Store Design Competition.

12 Aug 2013

USGBC Honors Stanford's Y2E2 Environment and Energy Building with LEED Platinum Certification

Sustainability is more than just an ideal at Stanford University's main building dedicated to environmental and energy research and teaching. It's a daily – and highly effective – work in progress for all the people who use, service and manage the "core of the environmental solar system" at Stanford, according to a prestigious new national recognition from the U.S. Green Building Council.

12 Aug 2013

CeraTech ME&A Granted Exclusive Rights to Market Environmentally-Friendly Cements

CeraTech Inc., the industry's leading producer of durable, high performance, carbon neutral cements for concrete, announced today an agreement to expand operations into the Middle East and Africa.

9 Aug 2013

Wireless Construction Company, Design Build Technologies, Acquired by Goodman Networks

Goodman Networks, a leader in the design, engineering, deployment, integration and maintenance of wireless telecommunication networks, announced today the acquisition of the assets and workforce of Design Build Technologies (DBT), a full-service wireless construction company that builds and maintains communications towers for major network operators across the Southeast United States.

9 Aug 2013

Ellison Surface Technologies Breaks Ground for New Coating and Special Process Facility in Guaymas

Ellison Surface Technologies, Inc. (EST) marked the beginning of construction of its newest coating and special process facility in Guaymas, Mexico on Wednesday during a special Groundbreaking Ceremony in the Roca Fuerte Industrial Park, one of Mexico's fastest growing cluster for aerospace and industrial gas turbine manufacturing.

9 Aug 2013

Shanghai Tower’s Topping Out Announced by Thornton Tomasetti

Thornton Tomasetti, the international engineering firm, announces the topping out of Shanghai Tower, the 2,073-foot-tall, 4,090,285 square-foot, mixed-use tower currently under construction in Shanghai, China, for which the firm provided structural services.

9 Aug 2013

Comprehensive Analysis of Global Construction Aggregates Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Construction Aggregates Market – Key Trends and Opportunities to 2017

9 Aug 2013

Volkswagen’s Platinum LEED Certified Chattanooga Factory to Serve as the Blueprint for New Plants

Volkswagen’s Think Blue Factory in Chattanooga, Tenn., will serve asthe blueprint for all new plants worldwide and has become a benchmark for environmental efficiencyfor all existing plants. This was the key message of Dr. Jan Spies, Volkswagen AG head of factory planning, at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminar in Traverse City, Mich., today.

8 Aug 2013

Everlast Epoxy Launches New Flooring Product for Auto Repair Facilities

Following an avalanche of requests from businesses and consumers, Everlast Epoxy Systems, a leading manufacturer of commercial epoxy flooring, has created Everlast Auto Floor. The newly launched line includes Everlast Service Floor, specially formulated for auto repair facility floors, and Everlast Garage Floor, designed for use by consumers in their garages, patios, dens or "man caves."

8 Aug 2013

Siemens Building Technologies Division Launches Desigo V5.1 Building Automation System

The Siemens Building Technologies Division is launching Desigo V5.1. Desigo V5.1 is the first and currently the only building automation system to support state-of-the-art technologies such as BACnet/IPv6, the latest Microsoft operating systems Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as well as the AMEV1 recommendations, which are becoming increasingly important in German-speaking countries.

8 Aug 2013

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Smart Meter Data and Behavioral Coaching Help Military Homes Reduce Energy Consumption

TEEMCO Acquires Architecturally Historic Gold Dome Building

New Seniors’ Housing Project in Winkler Receives Federal and Provincial Funding

YIT and Caverion Partner to Expand Espoo Lintuvaara School

New Report on Paints and Varnishes Market in the Czech Republic

University of Cincinnati Students Win Prizes in International Store Design Competition

USGBC Honors Stanford's Y2E2 Environment and Energy Building with LEED Platinum Certification

CeraTech ME&A Granted Exclusive Rights to Market Environmentally-Friendly Cements

Wireless Construction Company, Design Build Technologies, Acquired by Goodman Networks

Ellison Surface Technologies Breaks Ground for New Coating and Special Process Facility in Guaymas

Shanghai Tower’s Topping Out Announced by Thornton Tomasetti

Comprehensive Analysis of Global Construction Aggregates Market

Volkswagen’s Platinum LEED Certified Chattanooga Factory to Serve as the Blueprint for New Plants

Everlast Epoxy Launches New Flooring Product for Auto Repair Facilities

Siemens Building Technologies Division Launches Desigo V5.1 Building Automation System

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1Scientists Find Waste Foundry Sand Can Boost Concrete Strength, Lower Costs, and Support Sustainability

2Researchers Develop Energy-Efficient Concrete with Nano-Silica and Expanded Polystyrene

3New Review Finds Cement Could Go Low-Carbon — If We Get the Chemistry Right

4Breakthrough AI Model Accurately Predicts Strength of Recycled Concrete Mixes

5MIT Researchers Use Machine Learning to Identify Sustainable Alternatives to Cement Production

6Modeling Bacterial Viability in Fire-Resistant Bio-Concrete