First, there’s the selection of a lot and a home plan. Then, the tough decisions must be made.
Will it be a more traditional home with dark wood flooring and cherry kitchen cabinets or one with the modern elegance of espresso cabinets and stainless steel appliances?
KB Home buyers from San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced and Madera counties [...]
the community of Tracy passed a $51 million school bond, Measure E, for new and improved facilities at Tracy Unified School District’s two comprehensive high schools. An update to the community from the Citizen’s Oversight Committee is on its way, but as superintendent, I would like to give voters a review of the exciting things [...]
Riffa Views Signature Estates today held a ground breaking ceremony to announce the beginning of construction on the second of its Signature Estates, The Lagoons.
The contract was awarded to GPZ-Sembawang, a joint venture between local contractor GPZ and Singaporean engineering and construction giant Sembawang. The Lagoons Estate will comprise 258 two and three bedroom [...]
Essen-based Hochtief Facility Management GmbH is to assume responsibility for building and event management in the multifunctional Mercatorhalle in Duisburg. The company has just concluded an agreement to this effect with Duisburg Marketing GmbH for the next five years.
The Mercatorhalle, which, among other things, is home to the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, forms part of the [...]
Construction is booming on the University of Wyoming campus, with more than a dozen projects under way or planned.
The university expects to spend $100 million renovating or building 500,000 square feet of space this year. That includes $16 million for archaeological and anthropological programs and $14.6 million to renovate and expand a classroom building.
The money [...]
The Faculty of Engineering at NUI, Galway is to offer a new full-time, four-year degree programme in Project and Construction Management starting in September 2007.
The honours BSc degree is being offered in response to the shortage of suitably qualified professionals across all sectors of the built environment following the enormous investment in physical [...]
Owners of One Indiana Square today unveiled a rendering for the new façade planned for their 36-floor downtown office building. The new exterior will repair the damages suffered during an April 2, 2006, storm and update the 38-year-old tower with a contemporary design.
“What you see in the rendering is a modern façade to a building [...]
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 [...]
British architect Lord Richard Rogers, acclaimed for his urban, socially minded and open designs including the airy Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Wednesday.
Rogers, 73, is the fourth British architect to receive the field’s top honor, founded in 1979 and sponsored by the family [...]
Beneath its dark netting and scaffold-covered exterior, the historic Sears building at 400 E. Fordham Rd. is undergoing drastic restructuring. The shopping center will re-emerge in the next 16 to 18 months as Fordham Place, the Bronx’s first mixed-use development in more than 15 years.
Last Thursday, real estate developers Acadia Realty Trust and P/A [...]
ISLAMABAD – Chairman Senate, Mohammedmian Soomro Saturday underlined that need for construction of cost effective quality houses in the country and observed that focus should be on providing quality units with all the modern civic facilities.
Addressing at the launching ceremony of “World Trade Centreâ€, a commercial complex bring constructed by Defence [...]
At least 29 hospitals with hi-tech equipment are under construction across the country, funded to the tune of R1.2 billion this financial year, as part of government’s hospital revitalisation programme.
This was revealed by Acting Health Minister Jeff Radebe, Friday.
Speaking during his first public engagement as the Acting Minister of Health at the opening of the [...]