Of the 351 metro markets measured, 300 have seen year-over-year economic gains, according to the National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI). The index shows that 59 metros have fully returned to or even ...
Tags: Metro Markets, Economic Gains
The Amish Craftsman, a Houston furniture store specializing in custom, hand-made Amish furniture has announce that they will be holding their 4th annual Meet the Builder Day on May 3rd. This year, the event will include five Amish craftsmen ...
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Stainless Steel Rolling Mill Upgrades Safety with Ease ABB's new safety PLC has provided the platform for Sandvik Materials Technology to add zoned safety guarding to a large cold rolling mill at its Sandviken plant in Sweden. The mill is ...
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Led by a 6% rise in single-family starts, nationwide housing production rose 2.8% above an upwardly revised February rate of 920,000 to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 946,000 units in March, according to newly released figures from ...
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 ...
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes rose one point to 47 in April from a downwardly revised March reading of 46 on the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI). ...
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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 ...
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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a $4.9 million research grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara to better understand the impacts of chemicals throughout their life cycle—from design, manufacture, ...
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Compact Drives-Controls Solution for Platform-Supply Vessels Modular liquid-cooled drives and PLCs from ABB have been included in VARD ELECTRO's innovative, application-specific propulsion and thruster power solutions for offshore supply ...
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Nationwide housing starts were virtually unchanged in February,inching down.2%to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 907,000 units,according to newly released data from the U.S.Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S.Census ...
Tags: Housing, NAHB, housing construction
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) has requested that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) withdraw a proposed rule that would drastically lower the permissible exposure limit (PEL) of crystalline silica ...
Tags: Osha Withdraws Silica Rule, The National Association of Home Builders
Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 9.6% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 468,000 units in January from an upwardly revised pace of 427,000 units in the previous month, according to data released by the U.S. Department of ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration, Home Sales
Rabcat is announcing the worldwide launch of its most innovative and successful real-money game yet,Castle BuilderTM. Castle Builder is already a record-breaking title in the Austrian market,where it was released on desktop with Austrian ...
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February 24, 2014 Eaton’s Glenn Siegel (right) receives the Brand Leader award from Builder magazine, presented by Ed Kraft. The Halo product line has been recognized with this honor for 16 consecutive years. Power management ...
Tags: Lighting, Power management, LED, Brand Familiarity
Lockheed Martin-Led team Lays Keel on nation’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship Friday, Feb 21, 2014 The Lockheed Martin-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s eleventh Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the ...
Tags: Combat Ship, Gibbs&Cox, LCS 3, MMC