Construction & Building News
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Pins.com Launches a New Service to Help Visitors Find the Best Custom Lapel Manufacturer
Pins.com, the web authority on lapel pins and collector's pins, now has added a service to help visitors interested in making their own custom lapel pins find the best manufacturer for their project. - January 29, 2008 - Pins.com
Steel Building Material Quotes & Prices Now Available on City Steel Buildings
City Steel Buildings is a steel building portal that connects Steel Building users and Steel Building providers. Knowledge about Steel Aircraft hangars, Steel Storage sheds, outhouses, Steel Homes, Prefabricated Buildings, Pre-engineered Buildings, Steel Garages, is available on City Steel Buildings. A 'No-Obligation' form makes the user eligible for a free consultation from a regional steel building expert. - January 25, 2008 - City Steel Buildings
Larry Knox Chosen to Serve on QUOIN / AGC Board of Directors
Larry Knox, Vice President of Preconstruction for Bob Moore Construction, has been named to the Board of Directors for QUOIN, the north and east Texas chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). The AGC is the oldest and largest organization in the construction industry, going back to 1919. With over 1100 member companies, QUOIN is the AGC chapter for a large portion of Texas from Dallas / Fort Worth east to the Louisiana border, and north to the Oklahoma border. - January 24, 2008 - Bob Moore Construction
FTTH Made Easy with Optodaisy Cabling Solution
Belconn announced an innovative solution for the optical cabling of multi-story buildings within FTTH (Fiber to the Home) networks. Optodaisy solution, Belconn claims, will make deployment easier, less expensive and more reliable too. - January 23, 2008 - Belconn SpA
DAVACO's All Star Leadership Meeting Scheduled for February. "The DAVACO Way and Beyond" Theme Sets the Stage for Future Growth and Successes.
DAVACO, Inc., the national leading provider of retail services, announced today that it will hold its Annual All-Star Field Leadership Meeting in Dallas, Texas on February 9-10 and February 16-17, 2008. The annual event, which brings a select group of nearly 200 of DAVACO’s field associates... - January 19, 2008 - DAVACO, Inc.
TopBuildingJobs.com and The Construction Education Foundation of Georgia Launch CEFGAJOBS.com to Combat Impending Labor Shortage
CEFGAJOBS.com to serve as a model for employing students and addressing the labor shortage in the construction industry. - January 18, 2008 - TopBuildingJobs.com
Free Steel Building Construction Prices Available at City Steel Buildings
City Steel Buildings, is a Steel Building portal that connects steel building users with regional steel building providers. A 'No-Obligation' form, available on the website, provides users with an opportunity to get a free consultation from a regional expert. - January 16, 2008 - City Steel Buildings
Navtrak: Protecting a Company's Reputation with a GPS Vehicle Tracking System
Navtrak's GPS-based vehicle tracking system helps "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" contractor protect its company name, image - and assets. - January 15, 2008 - Navtrak
Structured Cable Products, Inc. Opens European Distribution Center in the Netherlands
Structured Cable Products, Inc. announces the opening of a new European Distribution Center in Moerdijk, The Netherlands, which will serve as the main distribution hub for their European customers. - January 13, 2008 - Structured Cable Products
Structured Cable Products, Inc. Releases High Quality, Low Smoke, Zero Halogen (LSZH) Audio and Network Cables
Structured Cable Products (SCP), an industry leader in low voltage wiring, has created Low Smoke Zero Halogen (LSZH) audio, CAT5E & CAT6 cables covered with a highly flame-retardant LSZH cable jacket that contain no halogens and, when burned, produce very small amounts of smoke. SCP’s... - January 13, 2008 - Structured Cable Products
Design Basic Announces Release of Leading St. Louis-Area Housing Expert's Annual Forecast
Design Basics of Omaha, NE, is pleased to announce that one of their Woman-Centric Matters(sm) licensees, CA Jones, Inc., of Columbia, IL, has released his eagerly-anticipated annual housing forecast for 2008. Chris Jones, owner of CA Jones, Inc., is one of the most respected homebuilders in the St. Louis metropolitan area. - January 11, 2008 - Design Basics
Panther Platform Rentals Launch New Specialist Equipment Brochure
Panther Platform Rentals launch a new specialist equipment brochure, available online and in print. - January 11, 2008 - Panther Platform Rentals
Free Prefab Garages & Prefabricated Garages Quotes Now Available at City Steel Buildings
Steel Building Industry avenue, City Steel Buildings, is a primary source of all Steel Building related information. The online portal intercedes between Steel Building buyers and Steel Building providers. Steel Building users, buyers and investors are furnished with quotes from regional Steel Building companies across the US. Submitting a 'No-Obligation' form, present on the website, entitles a user to a free consultation from an expert in his region. - January 10, 2008 - City Steel Buildings
Panther Platform Rentals Go Up and Over at Wroughton Airfield
Panther help complete important maintenance work at Wroughton Airfield using their Niftylift. - January 09, 2008 - Panther Platform Rentals
Construction Companies Are Calling Spartan Security
Recently Spartan Security, a security company serving Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland has received a surge of security requests from Construction companies. This business has increased the spectrum of Spartan’s customer base even more. “Construction companies are realizing that... - January 09, 2008 - Spartan Security
Thermal Technologies Corporation and Drexan Corporation Announce Strategic Partnership
Thermal Technologies Corporation, a Utah-based company focused on designing and manufacturing roof deicing products, announced today a key distribution and installation alliance with Drexan™ HeatTracer, a division of Drexan Corporation located in British Columbia, Canada and formed via a... - January 08, 2008 - Thermal Technologies, Inc
$13,000 for Tools?
KVM Tools has tools that cost $13,000. Is that true? - January 08, 2008 - KVM Tools Inc
CivilEngineeringCentral.com Makes Huge Splash in Its First Month in Business
CivilEngineeringCentral.com, a niche job board catering exclusively to the civil engineering industry, records over 85 job openings after its first month online. Their industry specific resume database expands and the company plans to further increase their market share as the central job board for all things civil engineering. - January 05, 2008 - A/E/P Central, LLC, dba CivilEngineeringCentral.com
Envirobidnet.com Continues to Grow, Expanding Services
Envirobidnet.com, the leading resource for obtaining government bid opportunities in the environmental field, announced today the expansion of their services to include new categories of bid notices, substantially broadening business opportunities for their customers. - January 04, 2008 - Envirobidnet.com
MY LITTLE SALESMAN® Celebrates 50 Years of Bringing Results to Customers
MY LITTLE SALESMAN® is celebrating 50 years of bring buyers and sellers together with many new product offerings. The company is looking forward to providing its advertisers and subscribers with more tools to buy and sell trucks, trailers and heavy equipment over the next half-century. - January 02, 2008 - MLS Inc
Tord Svensson, Senior Vice President of Metso Minerals, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry
Tord Svensson, Senior Vice President of Metso Minerals, Has been selected for Inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry. Tord makes his home in Stefans, Sweden. Metso Minerals’ operations are divided into three Business Lines; Construction, Mining, and Recycling, that channel... - January 02, 2008 - Princeton Premier
Luxetile.com Announces RFB (Bid Request) Service for Contractors and Designers
Luxetile.com, "the" trade resource for stone and tile, announced today a Bid Response Service to help facilitate the bidding process for the trade by performing the research and providing the best possible pricing in the market. The RFB service, analogous to an RFP service, is free and... - December 27, 2007 - LuxeTile
8 Safe Gift Ideas for the Active Senior in Your Life
Helpful Products That Make Your Independent Senior More Secure and Give You Peace of Mind - December 23, 2007 - Home Sweet Home Improvements
Jasper Construction Corp. Joins Trump Toronto Development Team
Talon International Development Inc. is pleased to announce that Jasper Construction Corporation has joined the Trump International Hotel & Tower, Toronto development team. Jasper Construction will provide construction advisory services for Talon’s Trump Tower currently under construction... - December 23, 2007 - Trump International Hotel & Tower, Toronto
Barking Branch Sees Yet More Growth for the Platform Company
The UK’s largest independent powered access provider The Platform Company has opened a dedicated customer service, administration and accounts centre at its Barking branch. The new purpose built building took just two months to complete, and will become home to over ten personnel freeing up... - December 22, 2007 - The Platform Company
Christopher A. Rodriguez, Secretary Treasurer for Advanced Concrete Construction Has Been Named an Honorary Member in Princeton Premier’s 2007-2008 Professional Registry
Christopher A. Rodriguez currently resides in the city of Sheridan in Colorado. Since 1971, the Advanced Concrete Construction Corporation has been a multi-faceted concrete company. They have grown steadily into a company with over one hundred employees and over twenty heavy equipment vehicles, and... - December 22, 2007 - Princeton Premier
Construction Contractors Fight $1 Billion in Theft with New Virtual Guard Station
Pro-Vigil, a job site security company, answered the construction industry's $1 Billion annual theft and vandalism loss by creating the industry's first affordable mobile security unit designed solely for live remote surveillance: the Virtual Guard Station. The Virtual Guard Station is less expensive and more effective than guards or video cameras. - December 22, 2007 - Pro-Vigil Construction Security
Revolutionary Plumbing Product Creates New Industry Standard - PermaFLOW is the World’s First Self Cleaning 'Green' Drain System (P-Trap Replacement)
PermaFLOW creates flow turbulence, minimizes deposition, breaks and propels debris and cleans itself thereby not allowing the sinks to get clogged. PermaFLOW is equipped with EZClean feature that helps clean the potential clog build-up easily without the hassles of using plumbing snakes, plungers, opening P-Trap and/or the use of harmful drain cleaning chemicals. - December 21, 2007 - PF WaterWorks
The Construction Centre Supports Sir Michael Pitts’ Flood Report
Following the release of The Pitt Review this week, on the severe flooding which hit the UK in June and July this year, The Construction Centre issued a statement fully supporting its recommendations. - December 21, 2007 - The Construction Centre
Top 10 Green Home Remodeling Products for 2007 Announced
GetWithGreen.com published its first-annual recognition for the environmentally sound home improvement industry. The 2007 list includes manufacturers and product categories that deliver products that help to conserve, reuse, recycle or become less reliant on harmful resources and includes a range of solutions that can help homeowners undergoing major remodels or those that are interested in simple green home projects. - December 20, 2007 - GetWithGreen.com
DirectBuy: Everybody Loves Rochester
DirectBuy of Rochester Showroom Earns Top Service Honors. - December 20, 2007 - DirectBuy
DirectBuy Employee Clowns for Kids
DirectBuy of Springfield Receiving Manager Gets Silly for a Serious Cause. - December 20, 2007 - DirectBuy
Royal Oaks Building Group, LLC Wins Triangle Business Journal’s Fast 50 Award
Rich Van Tassel, president of Royal Oaks Building Group, LLC, has announced that the company has received the Triangle Business Journal’s 2007 Fast 50 Award. The Fast 50 Award recognizes the fastest-growing privately-held companies in the Triangle. The survey, evaluated by... - December 20, 2007 - Royal Oaks Homes LLC
Patrick Dubbert, President and Chief Executive Officer of Midwest Products, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry
Patrick Dubbert, President and Chief Executive Officer of Midwest Products, has been selected for inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry. Patrick makes his home in Jefferson City Missouri and earned his Bachelors Degree in Marketing from the University of Central Missouri. As... - December 20, 2007 - Princeton Premier
VIBCO External Concrete Vibrators Solve Rebar Problem on Bridge Repair Job
VIBCO Vibrators provided external vibrators for a concrete bridge repair project where internal vibrators could not be used effectively due to the amount and configuration of rebar. VIBCO Vibrators application engineers received an urgent call from an equipment distributor whose customer had... - December 19, 2007 - VIBCO Vibrators
Steel Building Blog Launched by City Steel Buildings
City Steel Buildings is an online steel building portal that links together Steel Building users and Steel Building providers and manufacturers. Useful information about the Steel Building Industry is also furnished in the form of informative articles, tips and steel building blog. - December 19, 2007 - City Steel Buildings
EPDM Coatings Releases Roofing Blog
EPDM Coatings LLC has launched and added a customized roof repair blog to its website. - December 16, 2007 - epdm coatings
The Construction Centre Highlights Concerns Over Thames Gateway Regeneration Project
Plans for the huge regeneration project in the Thames Gateway area received a mixed response last week. The project, which could be the largest of its kind in Europe, is set to cost around 9 billion pounds and span 40 miles along the Thames. - December 14, 2007 - The Construction Centre
Derek Beckley, President of the Genus Group, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry
Derek Beckley, President of The Genus Group, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry. Derek makes his home in Alberta Canada and earned his Masters Degree in Health Administration from The University of Ottawa as well as his Bachelors of Science Degree in... - December 13, 2007 - Princeton Premier
Construction Equipment Dealer Offers First Money-Back Guarantee on Equipment
Hayden Equipment, a St. Louis heavy equipment dealer, has launched a program that offers a money-back guarantee on all new and used equipment. This is a first in the construction equipment sales industry. - December 13, 2007 - Hayden Equipment
Free Quotes for Steel Home & Steel Frame Homes Now Available on City Steel Buildings
The online portal City Steel Buildings connects steel building users and steel building providers. The company is a source of extensive information related to the Steel Building Industry for the users and Steel Building buyers. The website also gives thorough knowledge regarding the Steel Buildings, their construction, design, material usage, structural competence and architectural benefits. - December 13, 2007 - City Steel Buildings
HartzStone, LL Announces the Launch of Their Comprehensive Stone and Tile Maintenance Plan: the HartzStone Stone Care Program
HartzStone has discovered that stone and tile shops, fabricators and installers see a genuine need for these types of services, especially Post Installation, for their customers. With the introduction of this program HartzStone is making a lasting commitment to every homeowner to increase the integrity of their stone and the value of their homes. - December 13, 2007 - Hartzstone
Quotes for Steel Building Kits Now Available on City Steel Buildings
City Steel Buildings is an online portal that connects steel buildings user and steel building providers. They also offer quotes and prices of different types of steel buildings, from steel storage sheds, to steel aircraft hangars. Information given on the website can be accessed by users from different states of the US, by simply filling out a 'No-Obligation' form. - December 12, 2007 - City Steel Buildings
Empire Ventilation Equipment Co. Expands Its Line of Green Louvers
Empire Ventilation Equipment Co. announced today that it’s expanding its line of high quality louvers to include three new vent models: cast aluminum brick/block vents, extruded aluminum vents, and flange extruded vents. These vents are smaller than regular louvers. Traditionally, their main... - December 08, 2007 - Empire Vant Equip. co., Inc.
Designer Pages and Archinect Sharing News and Products
Archinect.com joins forces with Designerpages.com to fuel growth of unprecedented user-generated application for sourcing products in architecture and design. - December 07, 2007 - Designer Pages
Abelard Teams with Wells Fargo Financial Retail Services to Offer the Home Projects VISA® Credit Card Program to Customers
In St. Louis and Indianapolis, Abelard Construction offers its Customers Financing for Home Improvement Projects. - December 07, 2007 - Abelard Construction
Cameron W. Hamilton, Managing Director of the McLean Group LLC, Has Been Selected for Inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry
Cameron W. Hamilton, Managing Director of The McLean Group LLC, has been selected for inclusion in the 2007-2008 Princeton Premier Registry. Cameron makes his home in Virginia and earned his Masters Degree in Economics from Princeton University. As Managing Director, Cameron leads the Federal... - December 06, 2007 - Princeton Premier
Speedheat® Generation4™ Electric Radiant Floor Heating Featured in the Alliance Children’s Theatre’s 2007 Christmas House - La Maison Enchantée
Since 1975, the Alliance Children’s Theatre Guild has organized an inspiring showcase home to raise funds for their programs. La Maison Enchantée - the 2007 Christmas House - features the ageless beauty of a French manor home and proudly displays the latest and greatest concepts in home design. Among the many unique products featured throughout the estate, Generation4™ electric radiant floor heating by Speedheat® is showcased as a luxurious floor warming solution in the master bath. - December 05, 2007 - Speedheat US
Building Material Reuse
As the construction industry begins to use green building techniques, online company supplies free resource for product reuse. - December 05, 2007 - Builder2Builder.com
Metal Garages & Steel Garages Quotes Now Available on City Steel Buildings
City Steel Buildings is an online steel building portal that connects steel building users with steel building suppliers and providers. Information in the form of steel building articles is also presented on their website, which gives thorough knowledge about the steel building industry. - December 05, 2007 - City Steel Buildings