New York-based Firebird investment fund has bought a 40% share of the Tbilisi-based construction and real estate developer, Iberia, with the purchase of 11,000 newly issued shares.
The amount paid for the shares has not been disclosed.
Iberia said on January 21 it would use the investment to develop the company’s existing projects and to purchase land [...]

Construction services provider Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. said Wednesday it received a contract to widen and reconstruct two roadway sections north of Atlanta.
Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

Bruce W. Brodsky has been promoted to program manager of PBS&J’s north Florida planning and landscape architecture program. In this capacity, he will be responsible for overseeing planning and landscape architecture for projects from Jacksonville through Florida’s Great Northwest. Brodsky has managed several award-winning projects including landscape architecture efforts at Windmark Beach and Camp WaterColor. [...]

The main factors accounting for the success of the construction company New Energy are their individual and professional approach to each particular project; high quality of the works fulfilled; and their high professionalism and use of newest technologies: and high quality of the operations.
Established in 2004, L.T.D New Energy successfully operates in the construction market [...]

Chuck Taylor, landscape architect at Georgia Southern University for 10 years, was honored recently by the Georgia Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) for projects in two separate categories. He received an award of merit in the Parks and Public Works category for “Creating a Pedestrian-friendly Campus,” a project that was implemented [...]

According to both the code enforcement statistics for 2005 and 2006 and the number of subdivisions currently under development, Lincoln County is continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate.
In a building and construction report issued recently by the local code enforcement office, it was noted that during 2006, 461 building permits were issued and 1,231 [...]

West Chester-based Archer & Buchanan Architecture is among the eight winners of this year’s Palladio Award in a national contest for design excellence.
Archer & Buchanan’s winning project was selected from hundreds of entries submitted across the country. The award was given for the “Hobbit House,” a structure built to house a special collection of J.R.R. [...]

The house, le Corbusier maintained, should be a machine for living in. Yes, Frank Lloyd Wright said, but only if you think the human heart is no more than a fuel pump. Le Corbusier’s architecture, at least in its mid-period, was inspired by the thrilling purity of new technology. ‘L’avion accuse!’ he wrote, suggesting the [...]

OSU school of architecture students are presenting their ideas for OSU’s future residential halls as part of a course project.
Thirty-two architecture students and eight architectural engineering students are participating in a jury review of the projects.
The project for this semester’s comprehensive design studio course, Architecture 4216, is designing a residential hall for 900 [...]

Known to a legion of cable television do-it-yourself viewers from his work on TLC’s Trading Spaces and the hot, new HGTV show, Design Star, multi-talented designer Vern Yip will return to his McLean roots for a two-day appearance at the popular Capital Home & Garden Show Feb. 23 and 24 at the Dulles Expo Center [...]

Domain Home opened its third retail store in Massachusetts on Friday, bringing the total to 28 stores in seven states.
The 8,500-square foot store at Wayside Commons in Burlington is the first to open since the home furnishings company updated its look.
‘‘Our customers have changed and evolved,’’ said Judy George, chief executive officer for Domain Home. [...]

Two Cambridge residents are among four Conestoga College architecture students to be honoured with scholarships.
The scholarships are from the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) foundation – the largest and most widely-recognized professional association for facility management. The foundation awarded 23 scholarships.
Winning students come from highly-regarded schools such as Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech and Cal-Berkeley. No [...]