Light+Building – International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology – will be held at an almost fully booked out Exhibition Centre (230,000 square metres (gross)) in Frankfurt am Main from 6 to 11 April 2008. In 18 exhibition halls, over 2,100 exhibitors, including all national and international market leaders, will show innovations and numerous energy-efficient [...]
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 [...]
Tiffany Construction will be working to relocate APS facilities crossing SR 179 south of Cortez Drive starting Tuesday, May 29, and working between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Traffic will move one direction at a time under the control of flaggers. Please plan for slight delays during this time.
Jack’s Canyon Road will re-open [...]
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 [...]
A North Austin library branch is getting a new home and an eco-friendly building.
Construction on the $3.5 million building for the North Village Branch Library will be complete by October 2008, moving the library from its current location in the North Village Shopping Center to a custom building designed to green building standards.
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These cold days it gets even colder in the 16-story tower without walls once called the Wachovia building.
“It reminds me of home,” said architect Brian Slevar, who grew up near frigid Buffalo, N.Y.
But neither cold, scary heights nor youth — he’s 26 — keep him from his appointed task.
Not long out of Philadelphia University’s architectural [...]
NiteLites of Charlotte, the Landscape Lighting Professionals, will demonstrate home expansion techniques at the Southern Spring Home and Garden Show, the South’s premier home and garden, indoor and outdoor living exposition. The show, scheduled for February 28 through March 4, will be held at the Charlotte Merchandise Mart, and includes eight distinct areas - a [...]
Hiring By Design, a human resources consulting firm based in Carmel Valley, said it joined forces with Solutions 4 Hiring, an employment placement firm in Phoenix.
With the partnership, Hiring By Design not only provides skill and behavioral assessments of potential job candidates, but can provide its clients with a pool of qualified applicants, said [...]
Megan Mosby pondered the true value of a bird in the hand.
Preparing to release a red-tailed hawk back to nature, she slipped her leather gloves on and grabbed the raptor, a bird that makes its living ripping up rodents, lizards, snakes and other birds.
“He’s really a nasty bird,” admitted Mosby, director of Liberty Wildlife Rehabilitation, [...]
Interior Motives, a full-service interior design studio and showroom that specializes in pre-construction and pre-renovation design, announced today the launch of a powerful solution to meet the burgeoning demand for effective project management between designers, architects, builders and contractors.
Using leading web-based business intelligence platform and online collaboration tools, Interior Motives will now have the ability [...]
It’s no surprise that weddings are a serious business. They are, after all, a $25.3 billion industry.
Not only does the average bride take 7 to 12 months to plan her wedding, but she will also spend some $25,000 making it one of the most memorable days of her life according to the Web site, [...]
Straight from lunch at the White House and on the way to New York to receive a national lifetime achievement award, architect Paolo Soleri makes a detour to Surprise on Saturday.
This is Soleri’s his first appearance ever at the West Valley Art Museum, which will feature a rare public showing of a collection of his [...]