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Funding Awarded for Low Cost Solar Roof Design

In its seventh year, the program awarded $25,000 to Luis Alberto Juanicó and his team for a project the scientists designed to reduce the use of fossil fuels. They developed an innovative, low-cost solar roof with a sustainable heating and cooling system that offers practical, innovative advantages.

8 Jan 2010

Skanska Wins US$216 Million Construction Management Contract for Arts Facility in US

Skanska (STO:SKAB) has been selected as the construction manager for a new arts facility for a client in the U.S. The contract amount is USD 216 M, approximately SEK 1.7 billion, which has been included in the order book...

8 Jan 2010

Amana to Build Workshop and Showroom for Kanoo Group in Abu Dhabi

Kanoo Group has awarded Amana Contracting and Steel Buildings the contract to construct, on a turnkey basis, a workshop and showroom with attached warehouse in Musaffah, Abu Dhabi. The 8,800 square meter facility will...

8 Jan 2010

Kliplev Motorway Group Secures Tender for First PPP Project in Denmark

Kliplev Motorway Group has been awarded the tender for Denmark’s first PPP project. The consortium will plan and build 26 km of the M51 motorway from Kliplev to Sønderborg as well as 18 km of side roads and se...

8 Jan 2010

CRBC Wins Order to Construct Roadbed in Guangyua-Bazhong Expressway

Recently, CRBC International Co., Ltd. won Section LJ1 of the roadbed project of Guangyua-Bazhong Expressway (Guang-Ba Expressway) in Sichuan province. The bidding price amounted to RMB213 million with construction perio...

8 Jan 2010

NCC Wins SEK 500 Million Contract to Build Forensic Psychiatric Care Facility in Sweden

NCC Construction Sweden (STO:NCCA)(STO:NCCB) has been commissioned to construct a new forensic psychiatric care facility in Olofstorp, 15 kilometers north-east of Gothenburg, Sweden. The client is Västfastigheter an...

8 Jan 2010

US Farms Creates New Nursery Landscape and Design Installation Unit

US Farms, Inc. (Pink Sheets: USFM) a diversified supplier of Farming, Nursery and Wellness products and services is pleased to announce its new nursery Landscape and Design Installation Division for Commercial Industrial...

8 Jan 2010

Department of VA Medical Centers Achieve Green Globe Certifications

Golden Power Manufacturing through its affiliated company Radio Thermostat Company of America (RTCA), today announced it has jointly developed a new home automation platform with Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) and chumby industr...

8 Jan 2010

Partnership Develops New Home Automation Platform for Smart Home Industry

8 Jan 2010

Boyuan Secures Contract to Develop Commercial Building in Qingzhou, China

Boyuan Construction Group, Inc. (TSX-V: BOY & BOY.DB), a fast-growing construction company in China of commercial, residential and municipal infrastructure projects, announced today that it has been awarded a contrac...

8 Jan 2010

Ascent Solar Introduces New BIPV Products for US Metal Roof Marketplace

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), a developer of flexible thin-film photovoltaic modules, today announced the development of new building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) products with variable widths for the ...

8 Jan 2010

Baldwin Announces New Access Control Product Featuring Home Connect

Baldwin Hardware, manufacturer of architectural door and decorative hardware, introduces its latest security advancement, a keyless access control product offering with Home Connect™. Home Connect technology en...

8 Jan 2010

ACCO Certified to Use Cypress Envirosystems’ WPT Solution

Cypress Envirosystems, a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ:CY), and ACCO Engineered Systems, a leading mechanical design, construction and service contractor, today announced that ACCO and its fully owned...

8 Jan 2010

Kwikset Celebrates Industry Recognitions for SmartCode with Home Connect at CES

Kwikset®, an innovation leader in the residential door hardware industry, today proudly announced and celebrated multiple prestigious award wins for the revolutionary SmartCode™ with Home Connect™ at CES ...

8 Jan 2010

Market Research Report on Prefabricated Wood Building Manufacturing Industry

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c7aca3/prefabricated_wood) has announced the addition of Supplier Relations US, LLC's new report "Prefabricated Wood Building Manufacturing Indust...

8 Jan 2010