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Are Shipping Containers The Answer to The World's Housing Crisis?

Mar 18, 2019

The world is facing a housing crisis. Currently, millions of people do not have viable homes to live in. Countries, such as India and China, continue to grow and progress, creating a great need for more affordable housing. Moreover, much ...

Tags: Shipping Container

Victoria Releases Draft 30-Year Strategy

Oct 12, 2016

Infrastructure Victoria is calling for community feedback following the release of its draft 30 Year Infrastructure Strategy. In the development of the draft plan, Infrastructure Victoria says it consulted the community on over 200 ideas ...

Tags: Victoria, draft 30 Year Infrastructure Strategy

China Issues Guidelines on Building Better Cities

Feb 22, 2016

Chinese central authorities on Sunday issued a document to set the basic principles, key tasks and targets for future urban development and management, aiming to make China's sprawling cities more livable, efficient and green. The ...

Tags: Guidelines, urban development

China to Renovate 6 Mln Run-down Houses in 2016

Dec 29, 2015

China is set to stop construction of public rental houses and renovate 6 million run-down urban houses in 2016. The program is a crucial way of providing low-income urban residents with affordable housing. Minister of Housing and ...

Tags: Renovate, Run-down Houses

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Met with Li Yuanchao

Dec 16, 2015

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met with Vice President Li Yuanchao in Kabul on November 3. Li Yuanchao passed on the oral message from President Xi Jinping to President Ghani. President Xi Jinping sent his best regards and wishes to ...

Tags: Afghan President, Li Yuanchao, bilateral ties

New Home Market Continues to Grow

Dec 16, 2015

Shanghai's new home market continued to grow last week with increases seen in transactions and supply, according to latest market data. The area of new homes sold, excluding government-funded affordable housing, jumped 24.7 percent to ...

Tags: new home market, Shanghai

Nora Lighting Donation Helps Support Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles

Nov 19, 2015

Nora Lighting recently donated nearly 100 lighting fixtures to Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles “ReStores,” the social enterprise arm of the charitable organization. With more than 800 stores through the U.S. and ...

Tags: Nora Lighting, lighting fixtures

U. S. Green Building Council Announces LEED for Homes Award Winners

Aug 20, 2015

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has announced the recipients of its annual LEED for Homes Awards, recognizing projects, developers and homebuilders that have demonstrated outstanding leadership and innovation in residential green ...

Tags: chemicals, LEED

Non-Manufacturing PMI Continues Dipping in China

Jun 3, 2015

China's service sector activity expanded in May, but at a slower pace, an official monthly survey showed on Monday. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the non-manufacturing sector fell to 53.2 in May, down from 53.4 for April, ...

Tags: Non-Manufacturing, PMI, Economy

CREE Expanded Its $1.5m Commitment to Provide LED Lighting for New Homes

Mar 24, 2015

LED chip, lamp and lighting maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has expanded its $1.5m commitment to provide LED lighting for new homes built in the USA by Habitat for Humanity (a non-profit Christian housing organization founded in 1976 that ...

Tags: LED, CREE, Electronics

China Will Stabilize Its Property Market This Year

Mar 6, 2015

China will stabilize its property market this year, with tailored, market-based policies to guide "stable and healthy development," according to the government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang Thursday.[Special coverage] ...

Tags: property market, healthy development

UK Home Registrations Hits Highest Level Since 2007

Oct 24, 2014

New house building figures released by warranty and insurance provider NHBC show that new home registrations have hit their highest level since 2007. The figures for Q3 2014 reveal that overall new home registrations have increased 8% on ...

Tags: House Building, new homes

Dal-Tile and Laticrete Donated Materials to Install Tile in Three Habitat Homes

Aug 22, 2014

Dal-Tile and Laticrete donated materials to install tile in three Habitat homes, including this duplex in Escondido, Calif. Dal-Tile recently donated a 12x12 floor tile and Laticrete donated thinset mortar and grout for three Habitat for ...

Tags: Tile Companies, Humanity Homes, Construction

EPA Is Providing $300,000 in Grants and Low-Interest Loans to Clean up Abandoned

Aug 18, 2014

(New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is providing a total of $300,000 in grants and low-interest loans to the City of New York to clean up abandoned and contaminated properties. The funding is being awarded under the ...

Tags: EPA, Certfication

EPA Announced $11 Million in Supplemental Funding to Help Clean up Brownfield Properties

Aug 15, 2014

WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $11 million in supplemental funding to help clean up contaminated Brownfields properties. The Revolving Loan Funds (RLF) will help 31 grantees carry out ...

Tags: EPA, Brownfield, Service

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