Light+Building, International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology, will be presenting outstanding and particularly innovative design at the Frankfurt Fair & Exhibition Centre from 6 to 11 April 2008. A special show there in Hall 4.2 (Stand G.41) will feature 32 products which have received the Design Plus Award. A total of 187 products were [...]
Rear Admiral Kevin McCoy of the US Navy, and Rear Admiral Bob Love, CVF Team Leader, Ministry of Defence head the international line up of speakers from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, UK and USA at the 9th International Naval Engineering Conference (INEC 2008) being held in Hamburg, Germany 1-3 [...]
Finished Basement Company, with offices in Denver, Colorado, and Eagan, Minnesota, was recently recognized by two national remodeling publications for excellence in basement design.
The company won two gold awards in basement design from the “Best of the Best” design awards sponsored by Professional Remodeler Magazine. Now in its sixth year, the Best of the Best [...]
HBG Construction was awarded Main Contractor of the Year at this years’ prestigious Builder and Engineer awards. HBG also won the corporate social responsibility programme award and the safety on site award. The awards were held at The Palace Hotel in Manchester.
The European energy efficiency guideline, Energy Performance of Buildings (EPBD) demands a European-wide obligatory energy certification of buildings. To verify energy efficiency eu.bac, the European Building Automation and Controls association, has developed the first Europe wide test and certification program for the range of electronic single room controllers. The test, based on the adherence to [...]
Little Elm resident Derwin Broughton, project manager for Ron Hobbs Architects, is the first place winner of the Gus Garcia Park Design Competition. The competition was created to provide an opportunity for young design professionals to present ideas for developing Gus Garcia Park, a 47 acre parkland located in the rapidly growing northeast section of [...]
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 [...]
Speaking at this week’s 11th Annual East Coast Gaming Congress, Kevin DeSanctis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Revel Entertainment Group, announced that Arquitectonica has been named the design architect, BLT Architects has been named Executive Architect and Architect of Record and SOSH Architects has been named Associate Architect for the Company’s Atlantic City resort [...]
Meadow Valley Corporation (NASDAQ:MVCO) announced today that it has been awarded three new construction contracts by the Arizona Department of Transportation valued at a total of approximately $47.5 million.
Meadow Valley won a $40.2 million contract to construct three new precast concrete girder bridges and new High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes by widening the existing median [...]
Buffalo’s downtown housing renaissance, a long-awaited dream come true, came at a huge cost. And few paid as big a price as Dan D’Andrea.
D’Andrea, a young, ambitious construction worker eager to get his own contracting business off the ground, suddenly found himself in a wheelchair two years ago.
He was working at the old Holling Press [...]
The Green Company has become the first builder to win three of the home building industry’s most prestigious awards in one year. Fourth quarter of last year, The Green Company won the 2006 NRS Diamond Award from NRS Corporation and Professional Builder magazine, honoring it as North America’s top homebuilder in customer satisfaction and experience. [...]
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 [...]