Crossland Construction Co. was recommended Tuesday to act as construction manager for the building of another juvenile detention center.
During Tuesday’s meeting of the Benton County Long Range Planning, Properties and Equipment Committee, Justice of the Peace Frank Winscott informed the committee that Crossland Construction was chosen for the detention-center project.
Winscott, County Judge Gary Black, Juvenile [...]

Pipe producers and fittings manufacturers from Europe to China are recognising the processing and long-term performance benefits of recent introductions to the BorSafe product range from Borealis, a provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions. BorSafe polyethylene (PE) pressure pipe and fitting grades reflect Borealis’ commitment to contributing to better, safer and more durable pipe [...]

Ember, a provider of ZigBee networking systems, and Itron have teamed up to help electric utilities reduce peak load demand and home owners conserve energy by using ZigBee-enabled wireless technology. Itron has integrated Ember’s ZigBee technology into its OpenWay by Itron Advanced Metering Infrastructure platform. Specifically, Itron’s OpenWay CENTRON smart meters are embedded with Ember’s [...]

The healthy growth implies a more robust outcome for economic growth, when data for the September quarter is released next week.
Total construction work completed in the period rose by a seasonally adjusted 2.8 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reported yesterday.
The work done was valued at a record $29.325 billion, up from $28.515 billion [...]

Axis Technologies Group, Inc. announced today that Kirchhoff Construction will join the company as an efficiency advocate in energy saving partnering. Kirchhoff, a leader in innovation, recently installed in their own facility the energy efficient lighting fixtures by Crescent/Stonco, a division of the Genlyte Group, Inc. that is equipped with the Axis Dimming/Daylight Harvesting [...]

Thousands of South Asian construction workers went on strike Sunday over harsh working conditions in the latest threat to a spectacular building boom already endangered by a falling currency and labor shortage.
While laborers have long complained about working conditions in this Gulf city known for its avant-garde skyscrapers, luxury dwellings and archipelagoes of artificial islands, [...]

Shares in China Construction Bank climbed more than 5 percent on Thursday after Goldman Sachs raised its rating on the stock to buy from neutral, citing strong earnings growth.
By 0302 GMT, shares in one of the country’s four largest lenders had gained 5.6 percent to a record high of HK$7.74. For details on Goldman’s [...]

Cheryl Daniels started noticing the dust and noxious fumes lingering in her Upper West Side apartment house after construction began in the building last fall. Then cracks appeared in the walls. One day, her front door stopped closing properly.
The breaking point came several weeks ago during a rainstorm. Ms. Daniels was awakened by a loud [...]

The Kadiyev family have long been builders in Chechnya, but no one has had a job quite like that facing architect Dzhalal Kadiyev: reconstructing the entire city of Grozny from the ashes of war.
Kadiyev, a small, bird-like man sporting large spectacles, is unfazed by the task ahead of him and often draws inspiration from [...]

McClatchy Newspapers
Tired of looking in design magazines for tips and not finding anything that suits you? The spring issue of Decorating (a special-interest publication of Better Homes and Gardens) has ideas for decorating smaller homes with human-scale rooms, as opposed to the cavernous rooms seen in more high-end design magazines:
• If you are re-covering furniture, [...]

Walking up to Wetherington Signature Homes’ Le Chateau model, you may think you have been transported to your own private estate in the French countryside.
Elegant, yet not ostentatious, the 4,632-square-foot, four-bedroom Le Chateau is an homage to the classic designs of yore. In addition to five full baths, the home has two half baths.
An oval [...]

Marcia is my No. 1 fan. She has seen every episode of Divine Design and has memorized all my makeovers. Yet her own home, which she shares with husband Frankie and their four children (and dog and parrot), was a design debacle. The family moved into the house two years ago, and the place has [...]