Green building as a cause has united disparate parties from environmental groups to big business to policymakers, but one key industry has struggled to react to the change in public sentiment.
The major home builders, who account for 80 percent of all home-building activity in the nation, face a unique challenge in implementing green building on [...]
In its half yearly survey of public opinion on Dubai’s real estate sector, DSL Exhibitions – organizers of the Resale & Rental (R&R) Property Show, due to be held in Dubai on 13th and 14th April 2007 at Crowne Plaza Dubai – have found residents of the city uniformly concerned with the drastic drop in [...]
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, [...]
Pacific Ethanol, Inc., the largest West Coast-based marketer and producer of ethanol, today announced that it has received all the discretionary permits necessary to begin construction of a 50 million gallon per year ethanol facility located adjacent to the city of Calipatria, California. The Company further stated that it expects to begin construction, which should [...]
OCEAN CITY — Organization is probably the skill Edward Panuska most relies on these days.
Panuska is vice president of project management for George Harms Construction Co., which is in charge of the first phase of construction on the new Route 52 causeway.
If anything keeps him awake at night, it’s scheduling, he said.
“Anything that has to [...]
KAPAA, Kauai » A legal squabble has put the brakes on the $50 million federal-county Kauai bike path, stopping concrete work for at least four weeks.
At issue is whether the county Planning Commission followed its own rules when issuing a Special Management Area permit to complete a segment of the 20-mile bike path, stretching along [...]
WASHINGTON – Construction of Buffalo’s new $130 million federal courthouse will begin by Labor Day and be completed in 2010, Rep. Brian Higgins said Wednesday.
Higgins, D-Buffalo, said officials of the General Services Administration which builds federal facilities informed the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee of the agency’s plans.
“This is great for Buffalo, and it’s been [...]
The consortium headed by Cintra (85%), the toll road and car park specialist, with a fund advised by JPMorgan Asset Management has been selected by the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) as Apparent Best Value Proposal for the construction and operation of State Highway 121 (SH-121). The objective of this project is the design, [...]
The CFM A15 and CFM A17 vacuums from Nilfisk-Advance America operate entirely without electricity. The CFM A15 and CFM A17 connect to any compressed-air system and use air pressure driven through a venturi to create suction powerful enough to handle even large debris in applications such as metalworking, construction and manufacturing.
The CFM A15 is compact [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — Hundreds of millions of tons of coal are hauled from northeast Wyoming each year as fast as the nation’s two largest railroads can carry it away.
But Union Pacific and BNSF haven’t been quick enough to satisfy utilities in the last few years, and America’s appetite for coal is expected only to grow.
That’s [...]
The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, of which Congressman Brian Higgins’s (NY-27) is a member, Thursday passed a resolution authorizing the General Services Administration to proceed with construction of the Buffalo Courthouse. That action removes the final impediment to construction of the new federal courthouse in Buffalo and approves federal funding for use [...]
West Chester-based Archer & Buchanan Architecture is among the eight winners of this year’s Palladio Award in a national contest for design excellence.
Archer & Buchanan’s winning project was selected from hundreds of entries submitted across the country. The award was given for the “Hobbit House,†a structure built to house a special collection of J.R.R. [...]