Black & Veatch, a leading global engineering, consulting and construction company, has been awarded a contract by Phoenix Park Gas Processors Limited (PPGPL) to construct a new butanes fractionator at PPGPL’s Port Lisas natural gas processing and natural gas liquids (NGL) fractionation facility in Trinidad.
Black & Veatch will handle engineering, procurement and construction of the [...]
This report will look at the cyclical categories of non-residential building construction in Canada — commercial and industrial work. Institutional construction is more a trend phenomenon, driven by demographic factors and dependent on government financing. Engineering/civil construction can fluctuate dramatically as a result of individual large projects. There will also be comments on some key [...]
Michigan’s highway construction zones are safer today than they’ve been in the last ten years. A safety coalition is working to help protect freeway construction workers. Working close to a busy highway can be unnerving, but today’s road construction workers are safer now than they’ve been in years.
Kirk Steudle, MDOT Director: “We’ve reduced fatalities by [...]
NEW YORK — Stocks closed mostly higher Friday, sending the Dow Jones industrials to their best week in four years after a surprise jump in home sales eased concern that frailty in the housing market will hurt economic growth.
Existing home sales rose by the biggest amount in nearly three years in February amid a [...]
Richard Layton Crowther was a “green” architect back when that term referred either to a color, golf or money.
Mr. Crowther, who died of natural causes Dec. 25 at age 96 at Rose Medical Center, designed homes and offices that he called ecologic and solar.
But he also was a talented designer - he authored the Cooper [...]
A serene bathroom that seems carved out of a rock wall, a girl’s bedroom that easily transitions to later stages of life, a teen media room retreat with an oh-so-practical rubber floor.
These are among the winning entries in the sixth annual Orange County Home Design Awards. The competition is sponsored by our sister publication, Orange [...]
If the revolutionary design of Cardinals Stadium holds up over time, years from now people will see the facility and have the same reaction as they do today when they see, say, Mick Jagger.
“You know,” they’ll think as they drive by the stadium in 2036, “that’s still kind of cool.”
Staying power. That’s the main reason [...]
MORE than 40 years after he drowned off a remote beach in the south of France, Le Corbusier remains a transcendent force. Even if some blame him for the modern city’s greatest sins, from the steamrolling of historical neighborhoods to a stultifying emphasis on function, he is indisputably the most influential architect of the past [...]
Fry, Inc., a leading e-commerce design, development and managed services provider today announced the launch of a new e-commerce Web site for Lumber Liquidators (http://www.lumberliquidators.com ). Lumber Liquidators is the largest direct retailer of hardwood flooring in the United States.
The site contains two new features that help customers choose from an extensive product offering. The [...]