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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

Research Report on Paint and Coating Manufacturing Sector

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/818cf9/paint_and_coating) has announced the addition of Supplier Relations US, LLC's new report "Paint and Coating Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and i...

10 Dec 2009

AEP Congratulated by Alstom Power for Receiving $334 Million Fund for CCS Facility Expansion

According to President of Alstom Power, the U.S. Department of Energy’s $334 million award to expand a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at American Electric Power’s (AEP’s) Mountaineer power pl...

10 Dec 2009

Kiawah Partners Develops New Residential Cottages on Kiawah Island

Kiawah Partners (KP) announces the development of its newest residential offering on Kiawah Island, The Cottages at Cypress Point. In keeping with the developer’s commitment to preserving the Island’s natural...

10 Dec 2009

Neptunus Supplies Temporary Buildings for COP15 in Copenhagen

Temporary structures specialist, Neptunus has been chosen to supply 14,000 sq m of additional space at the much-publicised United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15).

9 Dec 2009

IES Announces Full Technical Support for 'Virtual Environment' within Apple Mac Environments

Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), a provider of integrated performance analysis software for sustainable building design, today announced that VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop are the preferred virtualization ...

9 Dec 2009

Group Metro Secures $20 Million Loan for Costa Blanca Construction

Group Metro, a leading real estate and transportation company in the Dominican Republic, recently received a $20 million construction loan from Banco de Reservas de La República Dominicana for Costa Blanca, an exclu...

9 Dec 2009

Clayton Homes Launches New Energy Efficient Housing, ehome

The nation’s largest homebuilder, Clayton Homes, is unveiling a new product in their line of energy-efficient housing, called the ehome. These fully customizable homes feature an Energy Saver Plus package which is ...

9 Dec 2009