Architectural specialty products manufacturer, Construction Specialties has announced that it is now offering a new line of grilles called the C/S Econo-Line. The new line provides similar vision barrier capabilities to other grille products offered by the company.
Ballast Nedam will be responsible for the construction of a new sustainable municipal office in Venlo. The contracting partner for this project will be Laudy Construction & Development and the construction work will be carried out by Laudy and Ballast Nedam Building and Development Region South.
By Joel Scanlon
27 Apr 2012
US based multi family developing company Wood Partners has announced that it plans to construct a 256-unit apartment community in 145 Height Blvd in Washington Corridor. The community building will be called Alta Heights Apartment Community.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2012
The Orange County Chapter of the US Green Building Council (USGBC-OC) has announced that it is moving on with the second phase of the green classroom project carried out at Davis Magnet School in Costa Mesa. It also announced that the first phase of the project is successful in terms of energy usage, improvement of air quality and other green features.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2012
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has announced that it will construct an additional research building in its campus in Burnet. The clinical sciences building will consist of 15 stories and will be located in Sabin Way and will be integrated along with the Cincinnati Children’s research building, which was built in 2007.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2012
DIY site Gizmoplans has announced that it is now offering additional plans for the construction of a cement silo and dry material storage silo. Companies that make use of a ready-mix plant or a mobile concrete plant can now implement the plans offered by Gizmoplans to build their own 225 barrel silo for cement storage.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2012
US based Taubman Centers has announced that it will begin construction of a mall at the University Town Centre located at I-75 and University Parkway in Sarasota, Fla. The project is worth around $315 million and will cover a total area of 880,000 sq. ft. Construction of the mall is likely to commence during the later part of 2012 and is likely to be completed by 2014.
By Joel Scanlon
26 Apr 2012
Healthcare benefit company Aetna has received LEED Silver certification for its newly renovated Atrium building, which is located in its Hartford campus next to its headquarters in Farmington Avenue. The renovation process was completed over a period of two years with most part of the work completed during 2010.
By Joel Scanlon
25 Apr 2012
Architects across the US are now implementing original clay brick for the entire house to make the house more sustainable in terms of design on saving on energy costs. Apart from complying to the green building requirements, it also helps users to maintain a leading edge over their competitors.
By Joel Scanlon
25 Apr 2012
The Charles David Keeling Apartments, a student housing community located in UC San Diego designed by Kieran Timberlake has been honoured with LEED Platinum certification.
By Joel Scanlon
25 Apr 2012
Metal Panel Source is now offering products that will help in the restoration of roofs and siding. The company is the distributor for the north eastern region for Nutech Paints which provides products for restoration of metal roofing and siding, sheet and asphalt single roofing, fibre cement siding and tile roofing.
By Joel Scanlon
25 Apr 2012
Honda Motor launched a house constructed by the company to test the Honda Smart Home System (HSHS). The house was constructed in Saitama city, Japan. In-house energy demand and supply is comprehensively monitored and both energy generation and consumption is efficiently managed while mobility products are being used. With HSHS, users can preserve their own supply of mobility and energy when there is any disaster.
By Joel Scanlon
25 Apr 2012
Pawling, a supplier of athletic flooring, entrance matting, wall protection, traffic and parking safety solutions, has announced that it has purchased Alpar Architectural Products. Alpar manufactures renewable and bio-based alternative products to be used for glycol-modified polyethylene terephthalate (PETG) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC) wall protection.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Apr 2012
NCC Construction Norway will construct a green office in Oslo for Watrium Eiendom at a cost of SEK255 million. The project will be registered among the projects for the second quarter of 2012 and will commence during the summer.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Apr 2012
Bay Area replacement window company Michaels Construction is offering a discount of up to 75cents/sqft for multi-family dwellings such as duplexes and fourplexes. This offer is not valid on single-family dwellings.
By Joel Scanlon
24 Apr 2012