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USGBC’s Center for Green Schools Releases Second Annual Best of Green Schools List

The Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council today announced its second annual "Best of Green Schools" list, which recognizes top educational institutions and individuals across the country for embracing environmental initiatives.

17 Jan 2013

HP Opens New Headquarters Lobby and Executive Briefing Center

HP today officially opened its new headquarters lobby and Executive Briefing Center, a 37,700-square-foot addition to its existing headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

17 Jan 2013

New Research Reveals Jute as Sustainable Reinforcement for Concrete

Fashionable people may turn up their noses at jute — the cheap fiber used to make burlap, gunny sacks, twine and other common products — but new research is enhancing jute's appeal as an inexpensive, sustainable reinforcement for mortar and concrete. The study appears in ACS' journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.

17 Jan 2013

Brookfield Commences Construction of Platform for Manhattan West Development

Brookfield Office Properties Inc. today announced an exciting step forward in its New York property portfolio by commencing construction of the platform for the Manhattan West development site on Ninth Avenue between West 31st and West 33rd Streets and Dyer Avenue at a ceremony at the site with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Construction is expected to be completed in 2014, positioning the project to receive tenants in 2016.

16 Jan 2013

ISREC Foundation, CHUV, UNIL and EPFL Unveil Blueprint of New Cancer Centre

The ISREC Foundation and its partners, CHUV, UNIL and EPFL, today unveiled the layout and blueprint of the new cancer centre. It was Behnisch of Stuttgart who won the tender for the parallel studies mandate for the design and construction of the translational oncology centre.

16 Jan 2013

PANalytical to Participate in 5th Building Materials Analysis Conference

The 5th Building Materials Analysis (BMA) Conference will be held in just a few months time, from 18 to 20 March, 2013. The BMA conference provides a focus for all professionals in the field of building materials analysis, from engineers to researchers and scientists.

16 Jan 2013

ROCKPANEL to Launch FS-Xtra Non-Combustible Grade Cladding Boards at BAU 2013

Designing modern façades with ROCKPANEL cladding boards is popular– and with the latest product innovation the safety of the ROCKPANEL product range will be further enhanced.

16 Jan 2013

BAU 2013: BASF to Highlight Chemistry's Contribution to Sustainable Construction

BASF is to showcase chemistry's contribution to sustainable construction at the BAU 2013 trade fair in Munich from January 14 - 19, 2013. Based at Hall A4/stand 303, the company presents numerous solutions, including products to raise the energy efficiency of buildings. Other exhibits include materials to make buildings more durable and in that way reduce maintenance and repair. BASF also supports architects and planners keen to try out new design approaches, and presents insights into the latest research on electrochromic pigments for ambient interior lighting.

16 Jan 2013

Multiple Organics Shifts Headquarters and Opens New Warehouse Facility in Hercules

Multiple Organics is proud to announce that it has moved its headquarters and opened its first owned warehouse facility in Hercules, CA on December 28, 2012. Concurrently, Multiple Organics has added Jim Hoover and Ben Greenspan to its Board of Directors.

11 Jan 2013

LEICHT to Open New Chelsea Showroom in Spring 2013

Germany-based luxury kitchen company LEICHT announced today that it will open a 5,000 square-foot New York store at 36 West 25th Street in spring 2013. The Chelsea showroom will be the third location for LEICHT in New York, following its first U.S. opening in 2011 on Manhattan's Upper West Side and its suburban showroom opening in Westchester in December.

11 Jan 2013

Professional Builder to Present Three Model Homes at International Builders' Show

For the 14th year, Professional Builder magazine presents the annual Show Village exhibit at the International Builders' Show (January 18-24). The magazine partnered with modular home manufacturers Palm Harbor Homes and IronTown Homes, along with Greenfab, a developer of sustainable, healthy, modular homes and communities, and more than 40 building product manufacturers to build three model homes -- 2,072-sq-ft Aurora, 2,300-sq-ft Admiral and 918-sq-ft BASF High Performance Net Zero Home.

11 Jan 2013

PHMA Recognizes Balfour Beatty Communities for Outstanding Customer Service

Balfour Beatty Communities, LLC (BBC), a leading provider of property management, development and related real estate services for the multifamily, military and student housing markets, announced the Professional Housing Management Association (PHMA) has named its team and their Navy partners at Naval Weapons Station Charleston as the 2012 US Navy Outstanding Housing Team—Privatized Location, and Balfour Beatty Communities employee Jesse Hopkins, a maintenance supervisor at Naval Air Station Key West, as the 2012 Outstanding Housing Employee for Public Private Ventures.

From Balfour Beatty 11 Jan 2013

Related California Starts Construction on First Residential Phase of Grand Avenue Project

Related California today started construction on a $120 million, 19-story apartment building at 225 N. Grand Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets, the first residential phase of its Grand Avenue Project. With 271 residences, including 20 percent affordable apartments, the building will bring the first apartments to Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles in more than a decade and add 500+ new residents. The project will create 417 construction jobs over the next two years.

11 Jan 2013

Experts Discuss Challenges of Building Back Better Communities in Haiti

On the occasion of the third anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, the Pan American Development Foundation (PADF) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars today hosted an event to address current rebuilding efforts and discuss the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.

11 Jan 2013

Federal Funding to Support Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society's Sarah Wray Heritage Hall Project

Across the country, community centres, cultural centres, hockey rinks, swimming pools, and other community projects will soon be improved thanks to support from the Harper Government's Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF).

10 Jan 2013

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USGBC’s Center for Green Schools Releases Second Annual Best of Green Schools List

HP Opens New Headquarters Lobby and Executive Briefing Center

New Research Reveals Jute as Sustainable Reinforcement for Concrete

Brookfield Commences Construction of Platform for Manhattan West Development

ISREC Foundation, CHUV, UNIL and EPFL Unveil Blueprint of New Cancer Centre

PANalytical to Participate in 5th Building Materials Analysis Conference

ROCKPANEL to Launch FS-Xtra Non-Combustible Grade Cladding Boards at BAU 2013

BAU 2013: BASF to Highlight Chemistry's Contribution to Sustainable Construction

Multiple Organics Shifts Headquarters and Opens New Warehouse Facility in Hercules

LEICHT to Open New Chelsea Showroom in Spring 2013

Professional Builder to Present Three Model Homes at International Builders' Show

PHMA Recognizes Balfour Beatty Communities for Outstanding Customer Service

Related California Starts Construction on First Residential Phase of Grand Avenue Project

Experts Discuss Challenges of Building Back Better Communities in Haiti

Federal Funding to Support Pender Harbour Living Heritage Society's Sarah Wray Heritage Hall Project

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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

2Reinforced-Concrete Logic Gives Metals a Breakthrough in High-Temperature Strength

3Can Waste From Nickel Production Create Better Concrete? This Study Says Yes

4Scientists Engineer Concrete That Heals Itself Using Bacteria

5Groundnut Shell Waste Boosts Concrete Strength and Blast Resistance

6Global Construction Emissions Set to Double by 2050, Study Warns