According to IBIS World, China’s building completion industry’s revenue is predicted to increase at a rate of 12.3% annually, in the next five years amounting to $621.7 B in 2016.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Dec 2011
Georgia Tech’s Digital Building Lab has collaborated with Precast Concrete Institute, the American Concrete Institute, and the American Institute of Steel Construction to establish global standards for transportation of three-dimensional digital models among fabricator, architecture, engineering and construction groups.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Dec 2011
Swedish construction and development company, Skanska has received a contract worth $115 million for the development and expansion of St. Francis Hospital located in Columbus, Georgia. Of the $115 million, $103 million will be included under bookings for the USA building for the last quarter of 2011.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Dec 2011
US- based roofing contractor T&S Roofing Systems has received the Master Elite certification from the North American roofing manufacturer, GAF Materials. Currently, only 3% of the total number of roofing contractors in the country has received this certification.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Dec 2011
Utah Orthopedics has announced completion of its medical office building recently. The medical office is situated in Ogden and Big-D Construction built it through the design-build delivery method along with GSBS Architects.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Dec 2011
GreenWizard, a cloud-based information-sharing and product management solution that makes selection of building materials, modeling and teamwork easier in order to optimize LEED and green building credits, stated that it provides architects the expertise to run appraisals for design credits, along with the conventional norms of obtaining LEED credits restricted to specific products.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Dec 2011
The Raleigh division of Advanced Metal Roofing has bequeathed MetalMan Roofing System, a unique Advanced Metal Roofing system, which is ENERGY STAR rated, to Habitat for Humanity of Wake County.
By Joel Scanlon
13 Dec 2011
The Canada Green Building Council has certified an office building at 275 Slater Street in Ottawa with the LEED-EB (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Established Buildings) Silver certification.
By Joel Scanlon
9 Dec 2011
Tecnalia coordinated the NOFIRE European project and has developed a high-speed fire door by integrating two technologies.
By Joel Scanlon
9 Dec 2011
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs awarded a contract to The Green Building Initiative (GBI) to certify medical offices, long term care facilities, 189 hospitals and outpatient clinics on 11 campuses throughout the country employing the Green Globes Continual Improvement of Existing Buildings (CIEB) environmental rating and assessment tool.
By Joel Scanlon
9 Dec 2011
Virginia Tech’s associate professor, Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, stated that the urban land use models are altered due to the growth in population and lack of new metropolitan land, which has placed several people and infrastructure in topographic regions that are vulnerable to geographical outcomes during earthquakes.
By Joel Scanlon
8 Dec 2011
PPG Industries will showcase low-emissivity and passive solar glass samples at the International Builders Show for 2012 in Orlando, which is to be held on Feb. 8-11 of 2012. The company will also display a dual-coat, dual-pane insulating glass unit (IGU) and CLARVISTA shower glass, facilitating the housing windows to attain the R-5 “center-of-glass” insulating performance.
By Joel Scanlon
8 Dec 2011
Fluor, which has designed, constructed and conserved several complex and challenging projects in the globe, authenticated that Bob McDonnell, who is the governor of Virginia, stated that the Fluor-Transurban and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) have inked an in-principle and non-binding agreement on the main marketable terms for the I-95 project, which is building the High Occupancy Toll or High Occupancy Vehicle (HOT/HOV) lanes in north Virginia.
By Joel Scanlon
8 Dec 2011
The latest StressPly E (Environmental) bitumen roofing membrane from Garland Canada has provided tensile strength of 500 lbf./in., which incorporates quick renewable resources and multiple ranges of pre- and post-consumer recyclable materials for enhanced sustainability.
By Joel Scanlon
7 Dec 2011
Empire Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of specialized engineered products, had signed a definitive agreement for selling its Hopkins steel works plant in Welland and Empire Iron Works structural steel fabrication facility in Winnipeg to the biggest steel fabrication company of western Canada, the Supreme Group.
By Joel Scanlon
7 Dec 2011