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High Quality LED Bulbs from Seoul Display

Seoul Display, an emerging leader in the LED lighting industry in Korea, is introducing high quality LED light bulbs. With various shapes for various purposes, Seoul Display can provide LED lighting solutions for street ...

18 Oct 2010

New London Harbour Towers Wins Three HOBI Awards

New London Harbour Towers, luxury residences with resort-like amenities in the heart New London's Historic Waterfront District, today announced that it has won three Home Building Industry Awards (HOBI Awards) from the Home Builders Association of Connecticut.

18 Oct 2010

Stricter Building Regulations Increase Demand for Rigid Polyurethane Insulation

A large number of countries are tightening up their regulations on energy saving for buildings as a result of climate change and rising energy costs. For example, under the revised EU directive on improving energy effici...

18 Oct 2010

Silverwood Flooring Unveils New Eco-Friendly Collection

Toronto based Silverwood Flooring Inc. today introduced a quiet, cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to traditional laminate flooring. Silverwood's Vivo9 collection features a technology where...

15 Oct 2010

Chicago Offices of MMC Earn LEED Gold Certification

Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. (MMC) announced today that it has been awarded LEED Gold certification for its offices at 155 North Wacker Drive in Chicago’s financial district. LEED (Leadership in Energy and ...

15 Oct 2010

UK Market Analysis on Commercial Construction Industry

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Commercial Construction in the UK: Market Databook to 2014" report to their offering. This report is the result of WMIs extensive market, company and ...

15 Oct 2010

Skanska to Construct New Office Building in Warsaw, Poland

Skanska is to develop and construct a new office property with a strong environmental profile in Warsaw, Poland. Skanska’s investment amounts to approximately EUR 36 M, about SEK 330 M, for the first phase, which comprises 14,000 square meters of leasable space.

15 Oct 2010

Cree Introduces New High-Voltage LEDs

Cree, Inc., a market leader in LED lighting, extends its lighting-class LED leadership into high-voltage LEDs with the commercial availability of new XLamp® MX-6S and MX-3S LEDs.

15 Oct 2010

KBR Wins Topsides Design Contract for TOTAL’s CLOV Unit

KBR announced today that it has been awarded a contract to execute the topsides detailed design for TOTAL’s CLOV floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) unit.

15 Oct 2010

Acuity Brands Acquires Winona Lighting

Acuity Brands, Inc., a market leader in innovative energy-efficient lighting and control solutions, today announced it has acquired for cash Minnesota-based Winona Lighting, Inc., a premier provider of architectural and high-performance indoor and outdoor lighting products.

15 Oct 2010

Echo Pacific Construction Partners with USMC Combat Logistics Battalion

Echo Pacific Construction, Inc. is pleased to announce its mentoring partnership with USMC Combat Logistics Battalion (CLB-13) currently underway at Santa Margarita Elementary School, Oceanside Union School District, located on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, CA.

15 Oct 2010

InStar Opens New Offices in Seattle and Southern California

Troy, Mich.-based InStar Services Group (InStar), a national disaster restoration and reconstruction firm with 22 offices throughout the country, announced today the opening of two new locations. The Seattle office is lo...

15 Oct 2010

Photon Energy Enters Agreement for Solyndra Project in the Czech Republic

Solyndra, Inc., a manufacturer of cylindrical photovoltaic (PV) systems for large commercial rooftops, and Photon Energy a.s., today announced that Photon Energy has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) agreement for a 1.23 MWp Solyndra project and begun installation on multiple rooftops in Prague, Czech Republic.

15 Oct 2010

Harry Pepper + Associates Joins EMCOR Group

EMCOR Group, Inc. today announced that it has acquired Harry Pepper & Associates, Inc. (Pepper), a privately held government infrastructure project company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

15 Oct 2010

DuPont Launches New Facility for Butacite G Safety Glass Interlayers

DuPont opened a new production facility today to support growth in Central and Eastern Europe for its DuPont™ Butacite® G safety glass interlayers made entirely from recycled material. Seventy workers will be employed at the facility.

15 Oct 2010