Construction services group Global Construction Services (ASX: GCS.AX) is pleased to announce the launch of operations in the North West with the opening of a new business division in Karratha, Western Australia.
The new division will operate as GCS Northwest Pty Ltd, a subsidiary business to GCS Group.
GCS Group Managing Director Enzo Gullotti said the new [...]
Cannon Moss Brygger & Associates’ design for the Sioux City Community School District’s Irving Elementary School was awarded the 2007 American School & University Magazine’s Educational Interiors Showcase’s Silver Citation . . . a premier competition honoring education interior design excellence.
This elementary school building, designed around a community concept, focuses on educational pods that are [...]
The Farmington School Board approved a contract Thursday for its new elementary school with a Cabot construction company.
GAG Construction was the apparent low bidder a week ago, bidding $4.5 million to build the 53,700-square-foot building. Construction could begin before the end of the month.
The school will be built on a 15-acre tract south of U.S. [...]
Bruce W. Brodsky has been promoted to program manager of PBS&J’s north Florida planning and landscape architecture program. In this capacity, he will be responsible for overseeing planning and landscape architecture for projects from Jacksonville through Florida’s Great Northwest. Brodsky has managed several award-winning projects including landscape architecture efforts at Windmark Beach and Camp WaterColor. [...]
NovaGold Resources Inc. (TSX:NG)(AMEX:NG) today announced that it has received the necessary Federal and Provincial authorizations and permits to allow NovaGold’s Board of Directors to approve the start of construction for the Galore Creek copper-gold deposit in northwestern British Columbia.
Board approval for construction activities was contingent on receiving full Provincial and Federal authorization for the [...]
The Bonneville Power Administration informed six Northwest investor-owned utilities that, due to the uncertainty created by the recent Ninth Circuit Court rulings, BPA must immediately suspend payments that reduce rates for their residential and small-farm customers. The investor-owned utilities that are impacted are Portland General Electric, PacifiCorp, Avista, Puget Sound Energy, Idaho Power and NorthWestern [...]
SIMPSON MANUFACTURING CO. is battling to stay afloat in a housing market swamped by a slump in home building and sales.
The 2,600-employee company makes fasteners, ties and other gear that construction workers use to join the wooden parts of homes and small commercial buildings.
Executives at Simpson are determined nevertheless to navigate the rough waters. The [...]
Granite Construction Incorporated announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets of The Superior Group of Companies, a Pacific Northwest-based construction materials producer and asphalt paving company for an estimated purchase price at closing of between $56.8 million and $59.8 million in cash.
Under the signed agreement, Granite will purchase certain assets of [...]
Aecon Group, Canada’s largest publicly traded construction and infrastructure development company, today announced that its Construction and Materials division has been awarded a $49.1 million contract to widen the median of Highway 407 northwest of Toronto between Highway 427 and Highway 401.
The project will add two inside lanes along the 27 km stretch from Highway [...]
ESCANABA — A request by Menards asking for an additional six months of construction time does not mean developers are delaying building a new super store in Escanaba, said City Manager Jim O’Toole.
As planned, Menards developer Robert B. Aikens & Associates, LLC, is scheduled to break ground on the project on April 1, weather permitting, [...]
NORTH PLATTE - Since 1995, students and faculty in the building and construction programs at North Platte Community College have built a top-quality, three-bedroom house as part of the “hands-on†aspect of their training. This year, under the direction of NPCC Building Construction Instructor Jack Daniels, the house will take on a more contemporary look [...]
According to both the code enforcement statistics for 2005 and 2006 and the number of subdivisions currently under development, Lincoln County is continuing to grow at an unprecedented rate.
In a building and construction report issued recently by the local code enforcement office, it was noted that during 2006, 461 building permits were issued and 1,231 [...]