Construction

Research and Markets: Construction Sector in Russia 2009 - Get the Vital New Information on Planned Energy and Transportation Infrastructure Projects

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

Goldman: Commodities Will Soar On Chinese Construction Acceleration

The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

In their latest China Metals & Mining note, Goldman Sach's says that Chinese construction activity could be accelerating. Despite general fears that things could be slowing down. If indeed the case, this would likely be supportive of commodity prices through 2010. Their latest piece comes after site visits to the three Chinese cities of Changsha (in the southeast), Tangshan, and Beijing (both...

Unemployment Spike in Construction – a Key Driver of U.S. Economy – Cries Out for Investment that Puts People to Work Building America

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today’s unemployment report confirmed that in the U.S. job market, the hardest hit sector continues to be the construction industry, a key driver of our economy. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, construction unemployment rose from 17.1 percent in September to 18.7 percent in October. That reflects the loss of 62,000 construction jobs in one month, bringing...

Myriant Technologies LLC, Uhde Corporation of America and Uhde GmbH Announce Alliance for Engineering, Procurement & Construction of World Scale Renewable Succinic Acid Plants

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

QUINCY, Mass., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Myriant Technologies LLC ("Myriant"), a privately-held, biotech developer and manufacturer of renewable bio-chemicals, Uhde Corporation of America and its preferred technology provider Uhde GmbH, one of the world's leading engineering contractors (jointly "Uhde"), announced an alliance for the engineering, procurement & construction (EPC)...

Skire and Vanir Construction Management Announce Strategic Partnership

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skire, Inc. (www.skire.com), the leading provider of capital program, facilities, real estate, and project portfolio management software, and Vanir Construction Management, Inc., one of the United States’ largest pure program, project and construction management firms, today announced a partnership that will extend industry-leading services and Skire Unifier™,...

Moog Custom Engineering modules

Matrixsynth (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

via this VEMIA auction "A very nice little Moog modular set-up, with modules made recently, but 'proper Moog' - made by Moog CE aka Modusonics, the company Mike Bucki, the Moog Custom Engineering person in the old days, set up after Moog's original demise - so you can be sure they are the genuine article. The system includes (with US prices from a year or two ago): Moog 904a classic low-pass VCF...

Steel ETFs: PSTL vs. SLX

SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

ETF Database submits: The steel industry has taken a beating over the past two years, as prices and demand have fallen in tandem with the overall market, erasing years of gains in many steel equities. This near collapse was brought on by a perfect storm of events against the steel industry; a severe downturn in the construction industry, depressed automotive sales, and shaky debt markets that made...

Prez of Cook County Board candidate forum

PrairieStateBlue - Front Page (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

On Thursday night HACIA ( Hispanic American Construction Industry Association ) hosted a candidate forum that included Todd Stroger, Toni Preckwinkle, Terry O'Brien, Tom Tresser (Green) and John Garrido (Republican). WLS-TV covered it. And the Chicagoist has links to raw stuff. I wrote about it on Proviso Probe .

• President of the Cook County Board candidates forum - Proviso Probe

Cranes poised to rise in Boston

Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago

Experts think they can hear a faint pulse within the battered commercial real estate and construction industry here and elsewhere. The sector is still clearly in dire trouble...

New York Legislative Bill Overlooks Necessary Business Costs in Public-Option for Land Title Insurance Proposal

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The American Land Title Association contended that hasty efforts in New York to create a government-run title insurer and displace the private sector in the real estate closing process would not produce the results asserted by proponents. Land title agents in New York go through labor-intensive steps to ensure homebuyers have “good title” before a land title...

Arnold chose force over engineering -- Court cop suspected of swine flu gets military send-off:

Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | yesterday

PC Arnold Deonarine was yesterday described as a dedicated, ambitious young man who gave up an opportunity to work in the field of civil engineering to become a police officer.

Graduate careers: Civil engineering isn't a just a pipe dream

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

The UK produces woefully few civil engineers, yet it is a uniquely satisfying trade. Ian Wylie meets one man who is proud to say he has tunnel vision There is just one question I want to ask Martin Kelly as a crane lowers our cage 40m down a huge concrete hole so we can admire the 4m-wide, 10km-long sewer pipe which he and his colleagues have been building. And that is: Why? Yes, it's a dirty job....

Arclin Announces the Addition of its Portland, OR and Hayward, WI Facilities to its FSC Chain of Custody Certification

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Arclin, a leading provider of bonding, surfacing and related products for today's engineered building, industrial materials and natural resources markets recently announced that their Portland, OR and Hayward, WI Surfaces facilities have been added to its FSC Chain of Custody Certification. The Certification now covers all of Arclin's Surfaces facilities...

Regional Home Builder Agrees to Clean Water Act Settlement

PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Company will pay $350,000 penalty and upgrade environmental programs

NeighborWorks America Supports Extension of Homebuyer Tax Credit

Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NeighborWorks America applauds the latest decision by Congress and the Obama Administration to renew the homebuyer tax credit and make the credit available to both first-time homebuyers and repeat homeowners who have lived in their homes for five years. Regardless of whether you are a first-time homebuyer or an existing homeowner ready to make your next home purchase, NeighborWorks...

Aboundi Inc. grows US Sales Channel with Pacnor Marketing, Inc. for Pacific Northwestern region

Aboundi Marketing | 07/05/2008

Innovative open system Network Video Recording (NVR) and networking over Power Line (PLC) infrastructure manufacture expands Presence in Territory Nashua, NH – May 8, 2008 – Aboundi Inc., the innovative Electric Connect® and WebEyeAlert® vendor announced the appointment of Pacnor Marketing, Inc. as its manufacturer’s representative for the Pacific Northwest region today. Aboundi is a leading company...

"the Art Of Recycling" The College Of Engineering Of Barcelona

Josep Puigmarti | 29/03/2008

After the great success of the exhibition "The Art of Recycling", which took place a few months ago in the Barcelona airport, the sample moves now to the College of Engineering of Barcelona. Loyal to his premise that "any object can be turned into art in the hands of an artist," Josep Puigmarti is proposing a tour through the world of recycling, with his sculptures created entirely out of scrap materials...