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Brookfield Residential to Debut La Cresta Luxurious Homes in Villages of Woodbury

Brookfield Homes is preparing for the June debut of La Cresta, a highly anticipated collection that will showcase the most luxurious and final new home opportunity within the Villages of Irvine's award-winning Village of Woodbury.

8 May 2013

USGBC Awards LEED Gold to SMMA¡¯s Design for EMC Durham Center of Excellence Data Center

Symmes Maini & McKee Associates¡¯ (SMMA) design for the EMC Durham Center of Excellence data center, Phases I and II, in Durham, NC has received LEED Commercial Interiors (CI) Gold Certification from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC).

8 May 2013

The Luxury Collection Completes Restoration of The Gritti Palace Hotel in Venice

The Luxury Collection Hotels & Resorts, part of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: HOT), today celebrates the grand opening of The Gritti Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Venice. The renowned hotel recently re-opened its legendary doors following a meticulous $55 million restoration, bringing the hotel back to its original grandeur.

8 May 2013

Tilgin and Zhone Complete Interoperability Testing for Connected Home Ecosystem

Tilgin, a leading provider of solutions for multi-play and FTTx broadband access and Zhone Technologies, a global leader in FTTx network access solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to integrate Tilgin’s TR-069 management suite, tGem, with Zhone’s indoor GPON ONT product line – providing operators with a robust plug-and-play network management solution for triple-play offerings.

8 May 2013

Construction Begins at Multi-Megawatt Dominion Bridgeport Fuel Cell Park

Energi, a leading developer and underwriter of energy insurance programs, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the Dominion Bridgeport Fuel Cell Project. Officials and executives were on hand at the project site in Bridgeport, CT to commemorate the start of work for the multi-megawatt fuel cell park, which will be the largest in the United States upon completion.

7 May 2013

Panel to Discuss Google's Healthy Building Program

Central Concrete Supply, Inc., a U.S. Concrete, Inc. company and the leader in delivering low CO2 concrete to the San Francisco Bay Area, today announced that it would be joining representatives from Google, Inc., BASF, DPR Construction, KPFF Consulting Engineers and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to discuss Transparency and Material Ingredient Disclosure – What Google is Doing to Keep its Buildings Healthy at the 2013 International Concrete Sustainability Conference, to be held May 6-8 in the San Francisco Bay Area.

7 May 2013

UCP Commences Construction on East Garrison Master-Planned Community in Monterey Bay, California

UCP, LLC, a homebuilder and land developer based in San Jose, California, today announced that it has commenced the initial phase of construction on East Garrison, a 244-acre master-planned community situated on the former Fort Ord Army Base in Monterey Bay, California.

7 May 2013

Brandywine Homes to Build New Homes in Built-Out Area of Pasadena

Brandywine Homes announced today that it has acquired 12 lots in the 2.2-acre Estates Pasadena community in East Pasadena. Construction of the four- and five-bedroom homes will begin this month, with completion of the last home expected in May 2014.

7 May 2013

Study on Issues Related to Sustainability Assessment of Urban Renewal Projects

In an article published in the magazine "Building and Environment", Maria Gracia Riera Pérez, PhD student, and Prof. Emmanuel Rey of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) present the first results of a research dealing with the issues related to the sustainability assessment of urban renewal projects.

7 May 2013

Newly Renovated Conservancy of Southwest Florida Nature Center Opened

Conservancy of Southwest Florida officially reopened the new 21-acre Conservancy of Southwest Florida Nature Center during a two-day Grand Reopening Weekend Festival held April 20-21.

6 May 2013

Canadian Wood Sector Gifts New Public Market to Japanese Community Devastated by Tsunami

A Japanese community, devastated by the tsunami of March 2011, is welcoming a brand new public market, thanks to donations from the Canadian lumber industry and its partners.

6 May 2013

Ryland Opens Estate Collection Homes in Brownsburg

Ryland Homes announces the Grand Opening of its Estate Collection homes at Windridge Landing, an exclusive enclave of spectacular single-family homes on executive-sized homesites in Brownsburg, IN.

6 May 2013

AUDI Lays Foundation Stone for New Mexico Plant in San Jose Chiapa

AUDI AG is strengthening its successful growth path in the North American market with a new plant in San José Chiapa, Mexico.

6 May 2013

Penn State Trustees Approve Final Plans for Renovation of HUB-Robeson Center

Penn State trustees today (May 3) approved final plans prepared by GUND Partnership of Cambridge, Mass., and authorized the University to award contracts for an addition and renovation to the University Park campus student union, known as the HUB-Robeson Center.

4 May 2013

William Lyon Homes' New Atrium Neighborhood in San Diego to Open for Presales in Summer

Southern Californians who are ready to own and live near work will find the perfect solution when William Lyon Homes' new Atrium neighborhood opens this summer for presales at The Spectrum in San Diego.

4 May 2013