Edwardsville’s school construction program is back on schedule despite foul weather, according to Superintendent Ed Hightower.
Hightower gave an update to the Glen Carbon Village Board on Tuesday, with photos of the two new elementary schools under construction and several more construction projects under way throughout Edwardsville School District 7.

Light+Building – International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology – will be held at an almost fully booked out Exhibition Centre (230,000 square metres (gross)) in Frankfurt am Main from 6 to 11 April 2008. In 18 exhibition halls, over 2,100 exhibitors, including all national and international market leaders, will show innovations and numerous energy-efficient [...]

China Building 2007 Review Chinabuilding2007, covering a total exhibition floor space of 35,000m2, was joined by more than 400 building materials manufacturers from domestic and abroad including 100 foreign exhibitors and visited by more than 50.000 professional visitors, including: China, America, Korea, German, France, Spanish, Italy, Finland, Japan and India, etc. About US 5 [...]

Prysmian Cables & Systems, a world player in the energy and telecommunication cables market, will be playing a major role at next week’s 5th Annual Conference of the FTTH Council Europe to be held in Paris on February 27th & 28th.
As a main sponsor of the event, Prysmian will be exhibiting the latest additions to [...]

From 1 to 4 April 2008 in Shanghai, BolognaFiere Spa and Shanghai CMP Sinoexpo International Exhibition Co., Ltd will be staging the largest and most important ceramics exhibition in Asia - CERAMICS, TILES & SANITARY WARE CHINA 2008. Taking place simultaneously with Expo Build China 2008, the leading trade fair dedicated to the building [...]

After nine years’ development, Domotex Asia/Chinafloor (DACF) has firmly established itself as the largest floor coverings show in Asia and one of the world’s best places for sourcing and selling floor coverings. The 10th edition of DACF will take place at Shanghai New International Expo Centre during March 11-13, 2008. DACF 2008, consisting of 5 [...]

The 12th International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment / The 12th International Exhibition on Furniture Accessories, Materials and Wood Products (also known as WMF 2008) will be staged at China International Exhibition Centre (CIEC), Beijing, P.R. China on March 7 - 10, 2008. The upcoming edition is the largest ever, in both [...]

Wire – the Number One industry event presents international innovations from the areas of the wire and cable industry in Düsseldorf from 31 March to 04 April. About 1,100 international exhibitors are expected to occupy a display area of over 50,500 square metres.
Whether the focus is on spring manufacturing or metal forming, fibreglass machines or [...]

Leipzig’s duo event comprising the Z - Subcontracting Fair and the intec is once again expecting more than 1,000 exhibitors from all over Europe from February 26 to 29, 2008. Both trade fairs are closely connected with the industrial development taking place in Central Germany, where the most prominent industrial segments are automobile and [...]

The International Engineering Consortium rings in the New Year with a record number of exhibitors for its annual DesignCon-2008. With more than 135 key exhibiting companies, the event serving semiconductor engineers has also drawn a record number of pre-registered attendees. In addition, more than 300 experts will present 120 educational sessions to complement the cutting-edge [...]

Carpenter Beach Construction of Purcellville has joined the U.S. Green Building Council.
The U.S. Green Building Council works to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built and operated, to provide an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy and prosperous environment aimed to improve quality of life.
Carpenter Beach Construction is a full-service construction company specializing in [...]

Construction intentions in Ottawa soared for the 12 months of 2007 compared to a year earlier, with gains of more than 20 per cent seen across building permit values for the housing sector.
The total value of approved construction projects jumped 20.2 per cent in 2007 to $1.97 billion, mainly because of a 31-per-cent increase in [...]