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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

New Market Report on the U.S. Brick and Structural Clay Tile Manufacturing Industry

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c29d24/brick_and_structur) has announced the addition of Supplier Relations US, LLC's new report "Brick and Structural Clay Tile Manufacturing Ind...

9 Apr 2010

Expert Analysis on German Engineering and Construction Market

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8cb641/engineering_and_co) has announced the addition of the "Engineering and Construction: Germany Industry Guide" report to their offering. ...

9 Apr 2010

W.G. Yates to Offer Pre-Construction Services for Nissan's New Battery Plant

Nissan North America, Inc. (Nissan) has selected W.G. Yates of Philadelphia, Miss., as the general contractor supporting the pre-construction services phase for Nissan's new battery plant that will be built at the automaker's vehicle assembly plant in Smyrna, Tenn.

9 Apr 2010

More than 350 Attendees Gathered for 2010 Global Construction Summit

More than 350 attendees gathered at McGraw-Hill's headquarters in New York today for the 2010 Global Construction Summit to participate in discussions about business development, trends, innovation and best practices...

9 Apr 2010

Skanska Secures Shopping Center Renovation Assignment in Sweden

Skanska (STO:SKAB) has secured the assignment to extend Väla Centrum shopping center, outside Helsingborg, Sweden. The contract amounts to SEK 330 M, which will be included in order bookings for the first quarter of 2010.

9 Apr 2010

Skanska Awarded Two Construction Management Projects in Florida and Arizona

Skanska (STO:SKAB) has secured two construction management assignments in the U.S. for a total of USD 160 M, corresponding to SEK 1,155 M, which will be included in order bookings for the first quarter.

9 Apr 2010

Buckman to Market Flame Seal’s Fire Protection Products in the U.S., Canada and Mexico

Forging an alliance that will bring Flame Seal’s world class, fire protection technologies to a global marketplace, Flame Seal Products, Inc. and Buckman have executed an exclusive distribution agreement whereby Flame Seal’s fire protection products will be marketed and distributed by Buckman throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico, under the global Buckman brand as the Flame Bloc ® product line.

9 Apr 2010