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Fresh Coat Painting Launches Franchise in Connecticut

Eric Stavropoulos, a lifelong Connecticut resident, has launched his first Fresh Coat Painting business to serve Hartford County and its communities of Manchester, Vernon, Glastonbury, South Windsor and East Hartford. ...

8 Dec 2010

DBIA Honors H&A Architects & Engineers with Four Design-Build Excellence Awards

Richmond-based design firm, H&A Architects & Engineers, was recognized by the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) for its contribution to completion of four award-winning projects including the Best Overall, the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan.

8 Dec 2010

BuildingIQ Bags Four Industry Excellence Awards in 2010

BuildingIQ, a leading energy management software company, has been named a winner of four industry awards, most recently ED+C and Sustainable Facility’s Readers’ Choice Award.

8 Dec 2010

Sveriges Riksbank Awards Office and Storage Construction Contract to NCC

NCC Construction Sweden has been commissioned by Sveriges Riksbank (the Central Bank of Sweden) to build new offices, with associated storage premises, in Sigtuna, north of Stockholm. The order value is slightly more than SEK 220 million.

8 Dec 2010

EcoBlu’s Wood Treatment Meets Class 'A' Requirements

EcoBlu Products, Inc., announced today that the company has successfully completed fire testing at QAI Laboratories meeting class "A" specifications for E84 Surface Burning Characteristics.

8 Dec 2010

Jacobs Signs BOA to Provide Design-Build Services at EnRoute Facilities for FAA

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced today that it received a basic ordering agreement (BOA) to provide design-build services at EnRoute Facilities for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

8 Dec 2010

Skanska Buys Cast-in-Place Concrete Structures Builder, SkyBau

Skanska is to acquire all shares in the Slovakian company SkyBau, which builds cast-in-place concrete structures.

8 Dec 2010

SunPower to Build Solar Power System at Masdar Institute Building

SunPower Corp. has announced the construction of a 1-megawatt solar power system on the roof of the Masdar Institute building, Masdar City, located on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi.

8 Dec 2010

Mathy Construction and Ergon Asphalt + Emulsions Secure Patent for Hot Mix Asphalt Production Process

Ergon Asphalt and Emulsions, Inc., (Ergon), and Mathy Construction Co. of Onalaska, WI announced today the award of a patented process that allows for the production and placement of conventional hot mix asphalt (HMA) at reduced temperatures of up to 75⁰ F.

8 Dec 2010

BuildingGreen’s Top-10 Product List Includes FOAMGLAS Cellular Glass Insulation

FOAMGLAS® cellular glass insulation, manufactured by Pittsburgh Corning Corporation, has been selected as one of BuildingGreen.com’s Top-10 products of the year by the editors of Environmental Building News and...

8 Dec 2010

Modern Precast Signs Contract to Establish Two Precast Concrete Restrooms at Luna Park

Modern Precast Concrete® was recently awarded a $500,000 contract to install two customized precast concrete restrooms as part of a facilities upgrade at Luna Park in Coney Island, N.Y. The company completed the ...

8 Dec 2010

Medline Industries Starts Distribution Facility Construction in Alabama

Medline Industries, Inc., the nation's largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies, officially broke ground today on a new state-of-the-art 350,000 square-foot distribution facility in Prattville, Alabama.

8 Dec 2010

iLevel Wood Products Come with SFI Certified Fiber Sourcing Label

iLevel by Weyerhaeuser will soon provide builders and dealers with an easy way to recognize that all of its manufacturing facilities are certified to the SFI Certified Fiber Sourcing standard.

8 Dec 2010

Universal Consumer Products’ Railing System Clears International Building Code

Universal Consumer Products, Inc. announces that Deckorators® brand aluminum deck railing has passed both the 2006 and 2009 International Building Code and International Residential Building Code for its 6-foot railing system in 36- and 42-inch heights.

8 Dec 2010

New Report Discusses the UK Market for Builders' Merchants

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Builders' Merchants Market Report 2010" report to their offering. In 2009, the UK market for builders' merchants was estimated to be worth 11....

8 Dec 2010