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Peab Norwegian Unit Wins Contract to Construct Parking Garage in Oslo

Peab's Norwegian subsidiary Peab AS has been commissioned to build a new parking garage at Fornebu in Oslo. The customer is IT Fornebu, and the contract amounts to 350 million Norwegian kroner. The parking garage ...

11 Dec 2009

NCC Contracted to Build Clarion Hotel at Stockholm Arlanda Airport

NCC Construction Sweden has been commissioned to construct the Clarion Hotel at Stockholm Arlanda Airport. The client and property owner is the state-owned LFV Group (Swedish Airports and Air Navigation Services) and the...

11 Dec 2009

ADA Carbon Solutions to Use DOE's $245 Million Loan for RREP Activated Carbon Facility Construction

ADA Carbon Solutions, LLC (“ACS”), the joint venture owned by ADA-ES, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADES) and Energy Capital Partners (“ECP”), today announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) has offered a loan guarantee to AC...

11 Dec 2009

Fluor's Joint Venture Selected for I-15 Corridor Reconstruction Project

Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) selected Provo River Constructors, a Fluor-led joint venture, as the team with the best fixed-price, best-design proposal fo...

10 Dec 2009

KBR Receives 3-Year CCMS Agreement from DuPont

KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today that it has been awarded a Contracted Construction, Maintenance and Services Agreement (CCMS) by DuPont. The award covers a three year period. KBR will provide supplemental maintenance ...

10 Dec 2009

Granite Construction Wins Contract to Reconstruct Highway in California

Granite Construction Incorporated (NYSE:GVA) today announced that Granite Construction Company has been awarded a $24 million contract for the reconstruction of thirteen miles of Highway 101 near San Jose, California. ...

10 Dec 2009

Magplane Finalizes Technical Planning to Build 1km 'Pre-Production Status' System

Magplane Technology, Inc. (Pink Sheets: MAGP) and its Inner Mongolia Joint Venture (JV) team have completed the testing phase of the demonstration system and finalized technical planning for construction of the fully fun...

10 Dec 2009

Owens Corning Adds Glass Fiber Knitting Equipment at Rio Claro Facility, Brazil

Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), a leading global producer of residential and commercial building materials, glass fiber reinforcements and engineered materials for composite systems, today announced the addition of glass...

10 Dec 2009

Survey Shows Most Respondents Will Build Green on 16% of Projects by 2013

Air Quality Sciences, a world expert in indoor air quality (IAQ), has seen the rise of sustainable building programs and how vast and differed they can be. The popularity and prevalence of green building is not expected ...

10 Dec 2009

SunPower Completes 929kW Solar Power System on Mendocino College's Ukiah Campus

Mendocino College, Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) and SunPower Corp. ( SPWRA, SPWRB) today announced the completion of a 929-kilowatt solar power system on the college's Ukiah campus. The system was financed by Ba...

10 Dec 2009

ASCE States Long-Term Infrastructure Investment Plan is Essential

"We applaud the President’s commitment to using infrastructure investment as a way to create and support jobs and stimulate the economy in the short-term, both in the stimulus funding and the pending jobs bill...

10 Dec 2009

First Neighborhood to be Developed in San Diego's New Master-Planned Community

As the saying goes, good things come to those who wait. San Diegans who have waited for the right family home at the right price in the right location are setting their sights on Blossom Grove at The Foothills, the first...

10 Dec 2009

Esso Highlands Approves CB+I's EPC Contract for Papua New Guinea Gas Plant

CB&I (NYSE:CBI) announced today the approval by Esso Highlands Limited of a contract with CB&I in its joint venture with Clough, for the engineering, procurement and construction of the PNG LNG Project’s ga...

10 Dec 2009

PureSpectrum to Launch First Linear Fluorescent Dimmable Ballast Models in January

PureSpectrum, Inc. (OTCBB: PSRU) is preparing for a January rollout for the first of four linear fluorescent dimmable ballast models planned for release in 2010 that are expected to provide an immediate stimulant for the...

10 Dec 2009

Technip Wins Contract from Statoil for Åsgard Gas Transfer Project

Technip (Paris:TEC) (ISIN:FR0000131708) has been awarded by Statoil ASA an engineering, procurement, construction and installation lump sum contract, worth in excess of €23 million, for the Åsgard Gas Transfer Project. T...

10 Dec 2009