Commercial and industrial product lines of Foundation Armor are now accessible to DIY homeowners and consumers. When consumers want to purchase a concrete repair kit or concrete sealer, they often visit local home improvement stores or search the internet to research products and read labels, and eventually they end up with a purchase.
By Will Soutter
21 May 2012
Indiana Tech has celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony to open the first law school in northeast Indiana.
By Nick Gilbert
21 May 2012
At a conference entitled, ‘LEED and SITES: Excellence through Design,’ hosted by Novus International, Thad Simons, Novus’ President and Chief Executive Officer, and other industry experts have supported landscape architects and developers to implement LEED and SITES concepts in the planning and development of new construction.
By Nick Gilbert
21 May 2012
Westgate Heights Attainable Housing has broken ground on a housing complex comprising 34 units in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. The new housing complex will contain 2 accessible units and 32 townhouse units, and the homes will be meant for low-income families as well as families new to Canada.
By Nick Gilbert
21 May 2012
Taubman Centers, a real estate investment trust based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, will break ground this summer on a shopping center measuring approximately 640,000 sq. ft in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
By Joel Scanlon
19 May 2012
New York-based 2nd Ave Lighting has set up a new modern Multi-Port Natural Gas Forge. The company is an upscale brand and it manufactures decorative lighting that emphasises on the value of personalized designs, creating each of them as a novel work of art.
By Nick Gilbert
19 May 2012
NVR, a homebuilding and mortgage banking company declared the inauguration of the Summit at Providence Corner in Royersford, PA, which is a new single-family home community. Considered to be the most affordable, new single-family home community in Spring-Ford Area School District, the Summit at Providence Corner has been constructed by NVR's Ryan Homes division.
By Will Soutter
19 May 2012
Following its triumph in global design ideas competition, HOK has been opted for designing the new University at Buffalo (UB) School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Grimshaw and Davis Brody Bond , Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and Cannon Design, and Rafael Vinoly Architects with Foit-Albert Associates, were the competition finalists.
By Nick Gilbert
19 May 2012
Deceuninck North America, a producer of high-quality systems for doors and windows, has launched the first interlinked dual sash window called Genius system.
By Nick Gilbert
19 May 2012
YKK AP America, a manufacturer of aluminum windows, sunshades, curtain walls, storefronts and entrances for use in commercial and institutional construction, has added a new unitized wall system to its enerGfacade product line.
By Joel Scanlon
19 May 2012
SageGlass, an electronically tintable glass from SAGE Electrochromics, has helped Hayward, California-based Chabot Community College to achieve LEED Platinum certification for its Community and Student Services Center (CSSC). tBP/Architecture decided to use large numbers of glass in the CSSC to bring in huge amount of daylight and maintain an outdoor connection for the students’ well-being.
By Will Soutter
19 May 2012
KBR, a global engineering, construction and services company, has received a new manufacturing plant construction contract from CTL Packaging, a producer of plastic packaging products for the pharmaceutical, food, personal care and cosmetics industries.
By Nick Gilbert
19 May 2012
Balfour Beatty, a globally recognized infrastructure group, has received a certification to the new Collaborative Business Relationships standard by the British Standard Institute. This standard also known as BS11000 recognizes the significance of collaboration for the improvement of sustainable relationships, company performance and competitiveness.
By Nick Gilbert
19 May 2012
Costa Rica-based luxury design architectural firm Sarco Architects is taking efforts to build energy efficient homes so that customers can cut down on electricity costs. According to statistical data collected by the Costa Rica Star CNFL customers expect their electricity bills to increase by 4.7% during the month of May.
By Joel Scanlon
18 May 2012
US-based Regency Centers, specialising in the operation and development of community and grocery based shopping centres has announced that two of its buildings in North Carolina and Illinois have received LEED Silver certification from the USGBC.
By Will Soutter
18 May 2012