Industry News
June 2009 Construction Holds at $965.7 Billion Annual Rate
Construction spending during June 2009 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $965.7 billion, 0.3% above the revised May estimate of $963.2 billion and 10.2% below the June…
NextGen Forecasts LED Lighting Market to Exceed $33 Billion by 2013
The LED market will experience robust growth over the next five years, fueled by increasingly more powerful and energy-efficient offerings that will help municipalities, businesses and consumers, according to NextGen…
Kim Lighting Enhances Its KimNOW! Quick Ship Program
Kim Lighting has announced the launch of its newly expanded KimNOW! 5-Day quick ship program. The KimNOW! program was created for when project deadlines require roadway, site, pathway/landscape, signage and…
100+ Buildings, Product Designs from 23 Nations Win Green Good Design 2009
The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies have announced the winning buildings and product designs from a special…
FMI’s Q209 Construction Outlook Forecasts Nonresidential Construction to Fall 14% in 2009 and 17% in 2010
FMI, management consultants and investment bankers for the construction industry, recently released its Construction Outlook: Second Quarter 2009 Report. FMI’s Construction Outlook, a quarterly, construction-market forecast and supplement to the…
Cooper Controls and Electronics Diversified Sign Technology and Marketing Agreement
Cooper Controls and Electronics Diversified, LLC (EDI), a manufacturer of theatrical lighting and control products, have entered into a technology and marketing agreement. Cooper Controls has acquired various IP and…
Flash Poll: Should Energy Codes Regulate Existing Buildings?
WordPress is a great blogging tool, but it doesn’t allow you to create polls. So I found a little gadget at another website that lets you create coding for a…
AGC Analysis Shows Construction Employment Declines
Construction employment declined in all but 19 communities nationwide this June as compared to June-2008, according to a new analysis of metropolitan-area employment data released today by the Associated General…
Borrowers to Banks: Show Me the Money
That’s the title of this article by The Wall Street Journal, which reveals how difficult credit conditions have become for some developers. The developer of Destiny USA, a shopping mall…
7,000 LEDs Used for Light Art Project at Goggleworks
This is an amazing project. At the Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Color Kinetics‘ iColor Flex SLX strands were manually installed in the glass of the art center, creating the…
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