The world’s leading earthmoving equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar Inc. and Trimble, the leading innovator in developing technology for mobile and work applications, announced today the creation of a new joint venture company and a new distribution agreement. The new company, VirtualSite Solutions, will integrate the deep expertise of both parent companies in the areas of product [...]

An initial step toward granting homebuilder T.R. Hughes further building permits for construction projects in Fairview Heights was taken on Tuesday night.
The Fairview Heights Planning Committee voted unanimously to recommend that a hold on permit applications filed by the company be lifted.
The action comes two weeks after the entire City Council voted to deny further [...]

Trivers Associates said Tuesday that it was selected as the architectural firm for a new three-screen movie theater in Granite City, Ill.
The new theater will be a first-run cinema, meaning it shows mainstream movies during the initial new release period of each film.
The site of the new cinema has yet to be determined, [...]

Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville said Tuesday that it awarded $728,115 in contracts to four local companies for construction of two instructional chemistry laboratories.
Construction of the new laboratories, to be located in the existing Biotechnology Laboratory Incubator in SIU-Edwardsville’s University Park, will be paid for through current University operating funds, according to a release.
G.L. Warren Construction [...]

Leopardo Construction, a leading construction services firm, completed Lakeside Tower and topped off Vision on State, both of which are 20-story condominium projects in Chicago’s South Loop. The two projects – Lakeside Tower and Vision on State – are poured-in-place concrete structures with a combined size of 644,000 square feet and 397 units.
Located less than [...]

OMAHA, Neb. — Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are hauled from northeast Wyoming each year as fast as the nation’s two largest railroads can carry it away.
But Union Pacific and BNSF haven’t been quick enough to satisfy utilities in the last few years, and America’s appetite for coal is expected only to grow.
That’s [...]

On February 27 at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, the American Society of Interior Designers-Illinois Chapter (ASID-IL) will present Design Summit 2007. The annual, one-day conference, now in its third year, will feature seminars, product showcase, career-building, and education and networking opportunities.
The 2007 keynote speakers are Joan Gaulden, of Education-Works (morning keynote); Colene S. Joiner, of Joiner [...]

Seeking to fill the void left by the departure of its first full-time curator, the Chicago Architecture Foundation has named Gregory K. Dreicer as vice president of exhibitions and programs.
Dreicer, the founder and director of a New York City-based exhibition design firm called Chicken & Egg Public Projects, starts next Monday.
“I like the fact [...]

If you think of mirrors as just a way to check your outfit on the way out the door, think again. Designers are rediscovering the many decorative uses for this everyday object. “Mirrors have unique properties unlike other design elements,” says Brian Pitman, director of marketing and communications for the Glass Association of North America [...]

SARASOTA – For aspiring young architect Ralph Erickson, Sarasota was an exciting place to be in the 1950s.
Sarasota was attracting national attention for its new wave of modernis- tic architecture later known as the “Sarasota School of Architecture.” A forerunners, Victor Lundy, lived just down the dirt road on Siesta Key from where Erickson and [...]

In a move likely to upset traditionalists, cheer modernists and widen the gulf between them, the U.S. General Services Administration has bypassed classicist Thomas Gordon Smith for its influential chief architect post and instead has chosen Les Shepherd, a veteran architect at the agency.
The GSA, which has an annual construction portfolio of more than $1 [...]

American Power Conversion , a global leader in power, cooling, and management solutions, today announced that the Cyber Continuity Center (http://www.cybercontinuity.com), one of North America’s first high density colocation data centers, will use APC’s InfraStruXure® architecture for high density blade server deployments at the new facility. InfraStruXure’s on-demand architecture integrates power, cooling, management, security, physical [...]