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Caterpillar Releases New Control System for Cat C-Series Loaders

Caterpillar has developed a new control feature that allows each operator to run a Cat® C-Series Skid-Steer, Multi-Terrain or Compact-Track Loader safely, productively, and comfortably.

4 Feb 2010

Aker Solutions Awarded New Biomass Renewable Plant Project by RWE

Aker Solutions previously announced (Monday 1 February 2010 at 08:00 CET) that it has been awarded a power plant project in Europe. Aker Solutions confirms the contract, awarded by RWE, is to provide design, supply, inst...

4 Feb 2010

Balfour Announces Acquisition of Hotel Construction and Fit-Out Firms

Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group operating in construction services, professional services, support services and infrastructure investments, announces today that it has acquired Multibuild Hotels an...

4 Feb 2010

STRABAG to Construct Section of S7 Expressway Near Warsaw

STRABAG SE, Central and Eastern Europe’s largest construction group and the market leader in the transportation infrastructure segment in Poland, announces a further success. The General Directorate for National Ro...

4 Feb 2010

Larsen + Toubro Wins New Construction Contracts Worth Rs.1100 Crore

Larsen & Toubro’s (L&T) Buildings & Factories Operating Company - part of its Construction Division – has bagged new orders aggregating to Rs.1100 crore recently for the construction of residentia...

4 Feb 2010

French Polynesia Docks are Illuminated with Carmanah's EverGEN Solar LED Lighting

Docks and wharfs throughout French Polynesia are now being illuminated with EverGEN™ solar LED lighting from Carmanah Technologies (TSX:CMH). This unique installation is the result of a government initiative to inc...

4 Feb 2010

Sweco Signs Contract to Modernise St. Petersburg’s Wastewater Treatment Plant

Sweco (STO:STO:SWECA)(STO:SWECB) has been commissioned to modernise St. Petersburg’s northern wastewater treatment plant, a facility that will take care one fifth of the city’s water. Among other things, the ...

4 Feb 2010

Dessau Secures Contract to Build New Rail Track in Algeria

Dessau, one of the largest engineering-construction firms in Canada, today announced that it obtained a contract of $38.8 million in Algeria's rail sector. The firm will conduct the preliminary and final design for t...

4 Feb 2010

Atherton Baptist Homes to Start Construction of New Apartment Development

Atherton Baptist Homes, one of San Gabriel Valley's oldest and most respected senior residential communities will break ground on its newest development -- The Courtyard -- on February 5, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. The Courty...

4 Feb 2010

New Multi-Functioning Flooring Saw from SKIL Makes Wood Cutting Easier

Nothing completes the look of a room like new wood flooring. Available in many finishes and styles, wood flooring provides durability and style in a way that's hard to match. However, installing these floors ca...

4 Feb 2010

Maxwell Unveils ProContractorMX 2.0 Construction Business Management Solution

Maxwell Systems, Inc. (World of Concrete Booth C4375), a leading provider of complete construction business management software solutions, today introduced Maxwell Systems™ ProContractorMX™ 2.0, a comprehensive, all-in-o...

4 Feb 2010

SITEOPS Names Stantec as its Certified Partner in US and Canada

BLUERIDGE Analytics®, provider of SITEOPS® optimization software for land development, proudly announces that Stantec (TSX: STN, NYSE: STN) has become a SITEOPS Certified Partner in the US and the first Certified...

4 Feb 2010

Jacobs to Design New Custody Suite and Divisional Headquarters for Humberside Police

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it was selected by Humberside Police to serve as Design Partner for the development of a new Centralized Custody Suite and Divisional Headquarters building i...

4 Feb 2010

Mueller Water Products to Shut Down North Birmingham Ductile Iron Pipe Manufacturing Plant

Mueller Water Products, Inc. (NYSE: MWA) today announced that U.S. Pipe and Foundry Company LLC (U.S. Pipe) will close its ductile iron pipe manufacturing plant in North Birmingham, Alabama by March 31, 2010, eliminating...

4 Feb 2010

Granite Construction Wins NDOT Rehabilitation and Widening Contract

Granite Construction Incorporated (NYSE:GVA) announced today that Granite Construction Company has been awarded a $31.4 million contract by the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) for the rehabilitation and wideni...

3 Feb 2010