Residents in Tangshan are very familiar with the concept of oversupply. A severe glut in the steel industry has put many jobs at risk in the northeastern Chinese city that counts the metal as one of its primary exports. But the oversupply ...
Tags: Housing Market, Crashing Down
Several recent settlements ensure that New England businesses performing painting and home renovation work are complying with requirements designed to protect children from exposure to lead-based paint during painting and other renovation ...
Tags: Paint, EPA, certification, Painting, Construction, Decoration, Service
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has named the recipients of the 2013 LEED for Homes Awards, recognizing projects, developers and homebuilders that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in residential green building. The award ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has named the recipients of the 2013 LEED for Homes Awards, recognizing projects, developers and homebuilders that have demonstrated outstanding leadership in residential green building. The award ...
Tags: Construction
Today NRG eVgo, a subsidiary of NRG Energy, Inc. (NRG), announced that it has partnerships and agreements in place to have more than 200 fast-charging Freedom Station charging sites built throughout California. Currently, NRG has a total ...
Tags: electric vehicle, infrastructure, auto
Construction employment expanded in 192 metro areas, declined in 84 and was stagnant in 63 between December 2012 and December 2013, according to a new analysis of federal employment data released Wednesday by the Associated General ...
Tags: Construction, steel, Mineral
Maintaining the integrity of roofs on larger buildings can be even harder than maintaining them for a private home. In the home, the usual concerns are rain and wind damage. In buildings such as restaurants, apartment buildings and churches ...
MONDAY Feb. 3, 2014, 2014 -- Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, died Sunday from an apparent drug overdose. Hoffman was found in a Greenwich Village apartment by a friend who went to check on the actor because he was unable to reach him, ...
Tags: Drug Overdose
So you have booked a personal apartment and ready to start a new life there. That's fantastic news, what makes you worry? Is it the trouble of transferring objects from the old abode to your new house. Well, there are countless moving ...
Tags: Moving Company, Lack Of Insurance
For four decades, Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, a business region of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), and Analog Devices, Inc., have played a fundamental role in delivering some of the biggest technological advancements that have deeply ...
Tags: Electronics, Consumer Electronics
New county-level federal data shows that, on average, Bay Area workers bring almost double the amount of money that their counterparts nationwide earn each week. Workers in Santa Clara County pulled in an average $1,810 per week during ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
Shaw Industries recently joined the Make It Right Foundation to cut the ribbon on the Foundation's latest project, the Bancroft School Apartments in Kansas City's Manheim Park neighborhood for which Shaw donated flooring including its ...
Tags: Shaw, Make It Right Foundation
BehrPro, the Professional Products and Services Group of Behr Process Corporation, today announced the two winners of its 2013 BehrPro Experience Toursweepstakes as it closes out an 18-week nationwide mobile tour. Winners Doug Kinder, owner ...
Glass tower apartment homes tout panoramic views of the neighborhood and city skyline beyond. And yet, a whopping three out of five residents in such modern digs draw the curtains, according to a new study. “It’s a ...
Tags: glass, decoration, curtain
THE local glass industry is booming with RM3bil turnover for both glass manufacturing and processing streams of the industry, said Malaysia Glass Association (MGA) chairman Ho Sai Woo. MGA was the local host for Glasstech Asia 2013, which ...
Tags: galss, technical processing, design