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NORESCO to Execute Energy Efficient Solutions in U.S. Government Buildings

The Office of the Architect of the Capitol (AOC) awarded an energy savings performance contract (ESPC) to NORESCO, a national leader in energy efficiency and energy infrastructure solutions, for work in the office buildi...

24 Feb 2010

IBM to Offer Smart Software Setups Vital for Efficient Building Management

IBM ( IBM) today announced it is creating smarter buildings, offices, and urban infrastructure worldwide. With intelligence embedded into the physical assets of an organization, IBM is helping clients create a command...

24 Feb 2010

WPCS Bags Building Contracts Worth $8 Million in the Public Sector

WPCS International Incorporated (Nasdaq: WPCS), a leader in design-build engineering services for communications infrastructure, has announced that it has received approximately $8 million in new projects. The new con...

24 Feb 2010

Georgia-Pacific’s Light-Weight Gypsum Roof Assembly Promises 50% Reduction in Sound Penetration

Georgia-Pacific Gypsum – long an innovator in the development and use of fiberglass mat-based gypsum panels – announced that its assembly for retrofitting lightweight commercial roof decks based on its DensDe...

24 Feb 2010

Anshen + Allen Utilized GRAPHISOFT's ArchiCAD to Design Containers into Clinics

In a pro bono effort to help increase health-care access in developing countries worldwide, award-winning San Francisco architecture firm Anshen + Allen is using ArchiCAD building information modeling (BIM) software to t...

24 Feb 2010

ARCADIS AQUMEN to Provide Building Upkeep Services to DSM

ARCADIS (NYSE EURONEXT: ARCAD), the international design, consulting, engineering and management services company, today announced that ARCADIS AQUMEN, a joint venture of ARCADIS and British Carrillion, has signed a cont...

From ARCADIS 24 Feb 2010

AUI Contractors to Build Hurst Library Expansion by Construction-Manager-at-Risk Process

AUI Contractors of Fort Worth was recently selected to construct the new $3.7 million Hurst Library Expansion using a Construction-Manager-at-Risk method of project delivery. With CM-at-Risk, the contractor is invo...

23 Feb 2010

Suffolk Construction Awarded South Region Middle School Building Project in LA

Suffolk Construction Company, Inc., has been awarded its fourth building construction project for the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)—the new, $35.5 million South Region Middle School #3 campus. The Sou...

23 Feb 2010

Research Report on Future of Construction Industry in Germany

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ac748b/the_future_of_cons) has announced the addition of the "The Future of Construction in Germany" report to their offering. This report is...

23 Feb 2010

Owens Corning to Showcase Latest Products at 2010 International Roofing Expo

Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) will feature its newest roofing and asphalt solutions and services to help differentiate and drive business at the 2010 International Roofing Expo (IRE) in New Orleans (booth #2117). "Fro...

23 Feb 2010

New Updated BSD SpecLink Provides Links to CSI GreenFormat Database

The Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and Building Systems Design, Inc. (BSD) today announced that the latest update of the BSD SpecLink automated specification writing software includes hundreds of hyperlinks ...

23 Feb 2010

Office Depot Seeks LEED CI Certification for all New Retail Stores

Office Depot® (NYSE: ODP), a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced that the Company will pursue Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) for Commercial Interiors (CI) ce...

23 Feb 2010

Johns Manville to Market SolarFrameWorks' BIPV CoolPly Solar Roofing Components

SolarFrameWorks to supply its proprietary Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) CoolPly™ solar roofing components to JM. Johns Manville will market these products through its business entity, the JM E3 Company, more informally known as JM E3co.

23 Feb 2010

ISO 9001:2008 Certification for Integrated Metal Products

Integrated Metal Products has received registration to ISO 9001:2008. ISO Certification was awarded in recognition of compliance with quality process standards and effective quality management systems in the design, engi...

23 Feb 2010

Suffolk to Construct Parking Garages and Surface Lots for Florida Marlins Stadium

Suffolk Construction Company’s Southeast region has been awarded a contract to manage construction of the Florida Marlins Stadium Parking Garages valued at $75 million. The project consists of four parking garages&...

23 Feb 2010