Construction employment increased by 122,000 workers in December 2013 versus year-ago levels, the Associated General Contractors said. Construction employment totaled 5.8 million people in December, an increase of 2.1% over year-ago ...
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Peruvian supplier of architectural natural stone, Andean Stone Company has introduced a revamped, user-friendly website for 2014. The new website is a modernized, stylish upgrade designed by Fernando Venturello of OWEUX in collaboration ...
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In order to provide a clear definition and construction rules to PV buildings, a Chinese Committee has come up with two drafts related to such topics, norms and projects and may announce them as an official standard in February. According ...
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Sales of newly built, single-family homes declined 2.1% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 464,000 units in November 2013 from an upwardly revised strong pace of 474,000 units in the previous month, according to data released by the ...
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In many writeups of eco-friendly homes, particularly those built with carbon-neutral plans in mind, you'll read about how the setting was carefully chosen. Setting tends to matter when you're trying to take advantage of natural benefits ...
Although the contraction of Taiwan's machine-tool exports slowed to 5.8% for the month of November 2013, the Taiwan Machine Tool & Accessory Builders' Association (TMBA) estimates that the island's overseas shipments of machine tools for ...
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This combination of Associated Press file photos shows, left, a Cingular "Fast Forward" cradle and Motorola mobile phone in New York on Tuesday Nov. 4, 2003, and an Apple ultracompact USB Power Adapter, on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008, in New ...
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Unsaturated polyester resin is primarily an artificial material that is manufactured by a reaction between organic acids and alcohol. It has various properties which makes it a very useful material in several industries. It can take ...
SanDisk Corporation and Avnet, Inc. have announced that Avnet will offer a wide portfolio of flash-based hardware and software solutions from SanDisk to its customers throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), Asia ...
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Can one person accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles? Sure, if he's Elon Musk. But what about one more typical person, who doesn't run a car company? Sven Thesen thinks that answer is yes. He calls himself an EV evangelist and ...
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Builders and designers did not stop at the sanctuary when they made stained glass windows a focus of the First Presbyterian Church of Carthage. The church has more than 20 stained glass windows, all original to the church constructed in ...
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The LIGHTFAIR® International (LFI®) 2014 Conference brings together top lighting and design experts to create the largest Conference in LFI’s 25-year history. The Conference continues as a centerpiece of the world’s ...
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Led by a solid increase in both single-family and multifamily starts,nationwide housing production rose 22.7%to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.09 million in November,according to figures released by the U.S.Department of Housing and ...
Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes improved four points to a 58 reading on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) for December. This gain reflected improvement in ...
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Flat glass prices climbed 1.3 percent from October to November, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) report issued by the U.S. Labor Department. It's welcome news for an industry that saw prices fall precipitously during the ...
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