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Developer of Construction Accounting Software Named One of Northeast Ohio’s Best Working Places

Foundation Software, Inc., developer of the award-winning FOUNDATION® for Windows® construction accounting software, has been selected by the Plain Dealer as one of Northeast Ohio’s best places to work.

29 Jun 2010

College Students Demonstrate Long-Distance Collaborative Architectural Design with ArchiCAD

Student architects are discovering inspiring new ways to perform in teams, even across great distances using the Internet as a virtual design studio.

29 Jun 2010

LEED Silver Certification Awarded to Novo Nordisk Headquarters in New Jersey

Novo Nordisk today announced that its U.S. headquarters facility in Princeton, NJ has received LEED Silver certification for Commercial Interiors from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

29 Jun 2010

Foster Wheeler Wins Pre-FEED Contract from GDF SUEZ for LNG Plant

Foster Wheeler AG announced today that its Global Engineering and Construction Group has been awarded a contract by GDF SUEZ to carry out the pre-front-end engineering design (pre-FEED) for the development of an onshore LNG plant and offshore gas gathering infrastructure.

29 Jun 2010

Farm Power Starts Construction of Renewable Electricity-Generating Facility in Lynden

Farm Power, a Skagit County renewable energy company, today broke ground on its second anaerobic dairy digester -- a renewable electricity-generating facility -- which will provide energy to local homes and businesses through PSE and its Green Power Program.

29 Jun 2010

Worldwide Analysis on Green Building Materials Market

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Green Building Materials Industry (http://www.reportlinker.com/p0209271/Global-Green-Building-Materials-Industry.html) ...

29 Jun 2010

Caterpillar Plans to Expand Excavator Production Facility in China

In support of its long-term global strategy for meeting customer demand for excavators, and recognizing the rapid expansion of opportunities in the key growth markets of Asia, Caterpillar Inc. announced today its expansion plans for the company's excavator facility in Xuzhou, China.

29 Jun 2010

HGTV Green Home Giveaway 2010 Chooses New York Resident to Offer Eco-Friendly Home

A happy, "speechless" and "surprised" Sandra Gilson learned she was the winner of the HGTV Green Home Giveaway 2010 when HGTV's Jamie Durie knocked on the door of her home in Scotia, New York.&nbs...

29 Jun 2010

SNC-Lavalin to Provide Construction Management Services for S11D Project, Brazil

SNC-Lavalin is pleased to announce that Vale has awarded a cost reimbursable contract to an SNC-Lavalin / WorleyParsons consortium for the implementation of the S11D project in Brazil.

29 Jun 2010

Cretex Concrete Products West Purchases Assets of Concrete Products of Wyoming

Cretex Companies today announced that, through its subsidiary Cretex Concrete Products West, Inc., it has acquired the assets of Concrete Products of Wyoming Co. (CPW), located in Casper, WY.

29 Jun 2010

ASLA to Offer Education Credits for USGBC LEED Credential Maintenance

For the first time, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) will offer continuing education credits for U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED credential maintenance, adding to a record number of education ...

29 Jun 2010

Windows and Doors Maker Traco to be Acquired by Alcoa

Alcoa (NYSE:AA) announced today it has agreed to purchase privately held Traco, a premier maker of windows and doors for the commercial building and construction market.

29 Jun 2010

Rapid Construction Thin Joint System Impresses Bristol Contractor

Bristol based contractor Barry Knapp was so impressed by the Thin Joint system he used in a recent development that he has decided to go the full course and become a registered Rå Build contractor with H+H.

28 Jun 2010

ARCADIS AQUMEN to Provide Facility Management Services to BT

ARCADIS (EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, announced today that its subsidiary ARCADIS AQUMEN FACILITY MANAGEMENT (AAFM) has signed a three-year framework contract to provide services to BT (former British Telecom) in the Benelux.

From ARCADIS 28 Jun 2010

Rebuilding Together and HSBC to Conduct Green Housing Initiative

Rebuilding Together, the nation's leading nonprofit working to preserve affordable homeownership, is working with sponsor HSBC Bank, to deliver critical and energy-efficient renovations to a deserving family struggling to make ends meet.

28 Jun 2010