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BlueChip Begins Rinehart Solar Farm Project in Lake Mary, Florida

BlueChip Energy™, a provider of complete solar energy solutions for residential, commercial, government and utility applications, today announced it has started stage one of the Rinehart Solar Farm, a 10 MW utility-scale solar PV facility in Central Florida.

5 Jun 2010

Solarfun Unveils New Series of Building Integrated PV Modules

Solarfun Power Holdings Co., Ltd., ( "Solarfun" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: SOLF), a vertically integrated manufacturer of silicon ingots, wafers and photovoltaic ("PV") cells and modules in ...

4 Jun 2010

Aerojet Completes 6MW Solar Array Installation in its Sacramento Facility

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE: GY) company, Solar Power, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOPW) and SMUD announced today that the companies have completed a 2.4 megawatt (MW) expansion of the existing 3.6 MW solar system at Aerojet&...

4 Jun 2010

PEI Retains Vanguard Management as Strategic Consulting Partner

Vanguard Management Corp (a business unit of Vanguard Minerals Corp) (OTC Bulletin Board: VNGM) announced that the company has been retained as a strategic consulting partner by PEI Worldwide Holdings Inc. (Pink Sheets: ...

4 Jun 2010

Blythe Construction Wins I-485 Charlotte Outer Loop Project

Delivering on her promise to fast-track the I-485 Charlotte Outer Loop project, Gov. Perdue traveled to the Queen City as the award letter was signed for the $139.5 million contract. Shovels should be in the ground early...

4 Jun 2010

AES Solar Announces €31 Million Funding to Construct 8 MW PV Facility in Italy

AES Solar Energy Ltd, a joint venture between the AES Corporation and Riverstone Holdings LLC, announced today that one of its subsidiaries closed on long-term non-recourse financing facilities of €31 million to finance the construction of the 8 MW Torchiarolo solar photovoltaic (PV) facility project, located in the Puglia region of Italy.

4 Jun 2010

McKinstry to Renovate Great Northwest Railway Building in Washington

McKinstry, a national leader in the development of smart building systems, announced today that it purchased the historically iconic Great Northwest Railway Building in Spokane, Wash. for its new Inland Northwest campus. Renovation work begins immediately and will create over 200 jobs for the Inland Northwest market.

4 Jun 2010

ONCF Selects Axion to Supply Railroad Crossties

Axion International (OTCBB: AXIH) a producer of the world’s strongest recycled plastic industrial building products, today announced the Company’s first two purchase orders for railroad crossties made out of ...

4 Jun 2010

Overview of UK Material Handling Equipment Industry

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/f8fe2f/uk_material_handli) has announced the addition of the "UK Material Handling Equipment Market Data & Forecast to 2013" report to their ...

4 Jun 2010

Poggenpohl’s New Kitchen Concept Featured at Eurocucina Furniture Exhibition in Milan

New thinking has a tradition at Poggenpohl. At the Eurocucina Furniture Exhibition in Milan, German premium-kitchen manufacturer Poggenpohl presented +ARTESIO®, a new concept designed in collaboration with Hamburg-based star architect and designer Hadi Teherani.

4 Jun 2010

Lee Awarded Cyber Integration Center Construction Contract by Harris

Lee Technologies, the leading provider of complete data center solutions including designing, building, operating, monitoring and maintaining of business-critical facilities for some of the most data-reliant private- and public-sector organizations in the world, today announced it has been awarded a major contract by Harris Corporation to design and build the Harris Cyber Integration Center, a new Tier III, LEED Silver-certified facility in the mid-Atlantic region.

4 Jun 2010

Boral Bricks Achieves LEED Gold Certification for Terre Haute Manufacturing Facility

Boral Bricks Inc., the nation's largest brick manufacturer and distributor of masonry products, announced today its Terre Haute, Ind. manufacturing facility has received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).

4 Jun 2010

U.S. and Canada Student Teams Win 2010 AEM Construction Challenge

Twelve student teams from the United States and Canada have won the 2010 AEM Construction Challenge presented by Volvo Construction Equipment during the Global Finals competition of Destination ImagiNation. The competiti...

4 Jun 2010

Caterpillar Receives Green Mark Gold Plus Award for Reman Building in Singapore

Caterpillar Inc.'s (NYSE: CAT) recently constructed remanufacturing and components facility in Singapore has received the "Green Mark Gold Plus" award from the country's Building Construction Authority ...

4 Jun 2010

Wall Hanging Systems: New Online Course for Architects

Wall-object display products manufacturer, AS Hanging Systems, North America’s leading provider of art and wall-object hanging systems for residential, commercial, municipal, K-12 and Higher Education, announces the availability of a new Continued Education Course titled, “Wall Hanging Systems.”

4 Jun 2010