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Hal Hays Construction Owner Honored as California’s Small Business Person of the Year

A former logger who started his own construction company has been named California’s Small Business Person of the Year. Hal Hays, the owner of Hal Hays Construction, Inc., in Riverside, will join other small busine...

12 Apr 2010

U.S. Green Building Council Recognizes Clear One Health Plans with LEED Gold Certification

Clear One Health Plans, Inc. (OTCBB: CCHN) announced it has been awarded LEED® Gold Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council, further advancing the company’s commitment toward making a positive impact on the environment, the community, and its members’ wellbeing.

12 Apr 2010

Design and Engineering Firm VHB Announces Acquisition of MSCW

Bob Brustlin, President and CEO of Vanasse Hangen Brustlin Inc. (VHB), a top-rated planning, design and engineering firm based in Watertown, Mass., announced today its acquisition of MSCW, an Orlando, Fla.-based planning...

12 Apr 2010

Groundbreaking Ceremony of NRL’s New Facility Construction

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) held a groundbreaking ceremony today, April 8, 2010, to mark the start of construction of a major new facility called the Autonomous Systems Research Laboratory.

12 Apr 2010

Equitable Gas Company Receives Grant for Construction of CNG Fueling Station in Pittsburgh

Equitable Gas Company was selected today by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to receive an Alternative Fuels Incentive Grant (AFIG) to assist in the construction of a regional Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling station in Pittsburgh's Strip District.

12 Apr 2010

PEI Signs Agreement to Build THURA-Block Manufacturing Plants in Canada

PEI Worldwide Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets: PEIW) announced today that the company has been diligently working with our Canadian licensee for over one year and there is now a signed agreement to place up to seven THURA-Bl...

12 Apr 2010

URS to Offer Technical Design-Build and Construction Services to USFWS

URS Corporation (NYSE:URS) today announced the Company has been awarded a Multiple Award Task Order Contract (MATOC) for comprehensive technical design-build and construction services for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Servi...

12 Apr 2010

GSA Awarded Construction Projects to More than 500 Companies Through Recovery Act Funds

The U.S. General Services Administration last week marked another major milestone in its implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. To transform federal buildings into higher performing, greener buildi...

9 Apr 2010

A Guide for Architects and Clients' from Wiley

A Guide for Architects and Clients by Karen A. Franck, a professor in both the NJIT College of Architecture and Design and the NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts, was published last month by Wiley & Sons.

9 Apr 2010

Euro Tech Receives $3.2 Million Worth Engineering Contract in China

Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited (Nasdaq: CLWT) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Shanghai Euro Tech Environmental Engineering Ltd, has recently been awarded a contract by a petrochemical industrial par...

9 Apr 2010

RSMeans Databases Now Available with Maxwell’s Construction Business Management Solution

Maxwell Systems, Inc., a leading provider of complete construction business management software solutions, today announced that RSMeans Databases are now available with Maxwell Systems ProContractorMX, a comprehensive, a...

9 Apr 2010

McGraw-Hill’s New Report Provides Insights on Construction Opportunities in India

McGraw-Hill Construction, part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), today released a new SmartMarket Executive Brief, India's Growing Construction Marketplace: Trends Driving Business Opportunities at its 2010 Global Construction Summit in New York City.

9 Apr 2010

New Gen7 Green Classroom Walls to be Insulated with Recycled Denim

Fabric scraps from the denim used to make the blue jeans students are wearing to school today could be insulating the walls in their new classrooms tomorrow.

9 Apr 2010

Owens Corning President to Discuss BRIC Opportunities for Composite Materials at SPE Conference

At the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Conference in Chicago yesterday, Chuck Dana, group president of the Owens Corning Composite Solutions Business, delivered a keynote speech about opportunities for fiberglass rei...

9 Apr 2010

Turner Construction Completes Groundbreaking Ceremony for BEQs at Camp Pendleton

Turner Construction Company, San Diego and T.B. Penick & Sons, Inc. are pleased to announce that they completed the third groundbreaking ceremony last week for Bachelor Enlisted Quarters (BEQs) Package 4 and Package ...

9 Apr 2010