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Chevron North Sea Awards Technip EPIC Contract for Alder Field Subsea Project

Technip (Paris:TEC) was awarded by Chevron North Sea Ltd a substantial engineering, procurement, installation and construction (EPIC) contract for the Alder field. Chevron is developing the Alder field as a subsea tieback to the Britannia Bridge Link Platform (BLP). This field is located in the central North Sea, about 200 kilometers North-East of Aberdeen, Scotland, at a water depth of approximately 150 meters.

29 Jul 2013

Ceram Become Designated Notified Body under Construction Products Regulation

Ceram, the international materials technology company, is pleased to announce that they have been designated as a Notified Body under the Construction Products Regulation (305/2011/EU-CPR). On 01 July 2013, the Constr...

From Lucideon 26 Jul 2013

ENR Honors Arup as California's 2013 Design Firm of the Year

Arup, a multidisciplinary engineering and consulting firm with a reputation for delivering innovative and sustainable designs, announced today that it has been selected as Engineering News Record (ENR) California's 2013 Design Firm of the Year.

26 Jul 2013

Sales Increase for Electric Mirror Products in the Residential Market

Sales volumes for Electric Mirror, the global leader in Lighted Mirrors and Mirror TV technology, are on a marked upswing for the first half of 2013, particularly in the Residential segment. The company is pleased to announce double digit sales growth for both its Hospitality and Residential product lines.

26 Jul 2013

Rutgers' Green Technology for Production of Concrete Awarded Additional Patent

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has received two additional patents over the past year for a novel system to manufacture concrete and other hard materials while better managing carbon dioxide, either by emitting less CO©ü during production or consuming it during the curing process.

26 Jul 2013

Canadian Solar Completes 30 MW Rooftop PV Installations on 129 Buildings in Suzhou

Canadian Solar Inc., one of the world's largest solar power companies, today announced the successful completion of a 30 MW rooftop PV installation in China's City of Suzhou under the country's Golden Sun program.

26 Jul 2013

Manulife to Construct LEED Gold Certified Office Building in Downtown Vancouver

Manulife Real Estate, the global real estate arm of Manulife Financial Corporation, today announced that it has begun construction on 980 Howe Street, a 16-storey, 250,000 square foot office building in downtown Vancouver. International engineering consulting firm BGC has been secured as lead tenant.

26 Jul 2013

Kansas City Youth Build House Achieves LEED Platinum

ACH Foam Technologies' R-Control structural insulated panels (SIPs) caught the USGBC's attention for a public housing project in Kansas City. Public housing rarely gets the attention of the USGBC, but Oz Qureshi wants to change that.

25 Jul 2013

Digital Realty Partners with KPN to Build Data Centre in Groningen

Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a leading global provider of data centre solutions, announced today that it has partnered with KPN, the leading Dutch provider of telecommunications and information and communication technologies (ICT), to build a data centre in Groningen.

25 Jul 2013

New Volume Program Announced by Green Building Initiative

The Green Building Initiative (GBI) today announced a Volume program that streamlines the process and lowers the cost of sustainability assessment and certification for clients using Green Globes on multiple buildings of a similar design.

25 Jul 2013

T5 Data Centers Granted LEED Silver Certification for New T5@Dallas Facility

T5 Data Centers’ facility T5@Dallas has been granted LEED® Silver certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

25 Jul 2013

Brookfield to Commence Construction of Brookfield Place Calgary

Brookfield Office Properties Inc. today announced that it will commence construction of a 2.4-million-square-foot office development project in downtown Calgary to be named ‘Brookfield Place Calgary.’ Cenovus Energy Inc., a leading Canadian oil company, has agreed to lease one million square feet of the 1.4-million-square-foot east tower, which upon completion will be the tallest structure in western Canada at 56 storeys or 247 metres in height.

25 Jul 2013