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Lighting 101: This School Year, Learn How the Right Light Can Help Your Student Shine

As the end of summer draws near and the start of the new school year looms, thoughts turn from sand and sun to tests and textbooks. Unfortunately, when students or parents begin to plan for decorating a new dorm room ...

17 Aug 2005

Make Window Safety A Priority: Three Potential Hazards You Should Know About

Parents and caregivers need be aware of three potential hazards associated with windows: window falls, lead paint and window cords. Every year, thousands of young children are killed or injured in falls from windows a...

17 Aug 2005

UK Survey Reveals Cost of Poorly-Designed Offices

Poorly-designed offices could be cutting UK productivity by a fifth, costing British business up to 135 billion pounds Sterling every year, according to new research by international design and architecture firm Gensler ...

17 Aug 2005

Panolam Continues to Make Indoor Air Quality Top Priority

The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) congratulates Panolam Industries International, Inc. for achieving GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certification of their FRL(TM) Fiber Reinforced Laminate. Earlier in the ye...

17 Aug 2005

GREENGUARD Announces Student Fellowship

The GREENGUARD Environmental Institute (GEI) announces the Ken Dillon Memorial Fellowship for Indoor Environmental Quality Design. The GEI will award a $3,500 fellowship to a graduate or undergraduate student selected...

17 Aug 2005

New-Home Construction Continues At Robust Pace In July

New-home construction continued at a vigorous pace in July, the U.S. Commerce Department reported today. Housing starts dipped 0.1 percent for the month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 2.042 million units foll...

17 Aug 2005

New-Home Construction Continues At Robust Pace In July

17 Aug 2005

Air Quality Sciences Releases Hurricane Guide for Restoring Water Damaged Buildings and Preventing Mold Growth

Atlanta-based indoor air quality firm, Air Quality Sciences, Inc. (AQS), today announces the release of a guide to educate commercial property owners and managers on the initial steps required to begin the hurricane reco...

17 Aug 2005

Traditional Thatched Roundhouse For Wales

Green Building Press is reporting on a traditional Celtic roundhouse being built in mid Wales as an experiment in sustainable living. A group of 12 volunteers will spend almost two weeks constructing the dwelling on l...

17 Aug 2005

DensGlass Silver™ Residential Wall Sheathing Helps Mike Speciale Build "Green" Homes

Building quality homes with something extra comes naturally to Mike Speciale, owner of Speciale Homes in Austin, Texas. That’s one of the reasons he uses G-P Gypsum Corporation’s DensGlass Silver™ re...

17 Aug 2005

Government Investment Sustains Construction Growth

Overall construction output continued to rise during the second quarter, but the pace of growth was weak and critically dependent upon increased Government investment, according to the Construction Industry Trade Surveys...

17 Aug 2005

Ahal Awarded the Corbetta Concrete Constructor Award

Dennis C. Ahal, chairman and CEO, Ahal Contracting Co., St. Louis, Mo., received the Roger H. Corbetta Concrete Constructor award from the American Concrete Institute at the organization’s awards program in New Yor...

16 Aug 2005

Winner Announced for Castleford Forum Competition

Niall McLaughlin Architects have been selected as the winner of the Castleford Forum design competition. The winning concept was chosen from a shortlist of six, which included: Bauman Lyons Architects; Feilden Clegg B...

16 Aug 2005

Builder Confidence Remains Strong

Builder confidence in the market for new single-family homes edged down somewhat in August but remained well within the elevated range that has characterized the past 17 months, according to the latest National Associati...

16 Aug 2005

Hitachi Pioneers the Sliding Miter Saw Landscape Once Again

Hitachi Power Tools today announced its new 12” sliding dual compound miter saw, the C12LSH featuring a revolutionary compact slide system that requires zero rear clearance, a top-mounted digital LCD (Liquid Crysta...

16 Aug 2005