Walls & Ceilings Architects’ next Webinar, “Design Assist Projects:
Don’t forget the Walls and Ceilings,” will take place at 2:00 p.m.
(EST) on February 22.
The EIFS Industry
Members Association applauds the U.S. Department of Energy’s Building
Technologies Program on its intent to issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement
for the development of innovative clean energy technologies for buildings that
can be market-ready within five years of the award.
Allied Building
Products Corp. announced that it has completed the acquisition of the assets of
United Products Corporation (United), a privately held roofing and siding
distributor based in Minneapolis.
Convenience Products,
the manufacturer of Touch ‘n Seal Insulating Foams and Sealants for new
construction and retrofit applications, announces its ASTM E-84 Class 1 Flame
Retardant spray foam insulations, Low Density (1 pcf) and Medium Densities
(1.75pcf and 2.0pcf) have passed the requirements of NFPA 286 (room
corner fire test).
Big news in the
rental world within the last week: United Rentals Inc. and RSC Holdings
announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which
UnitedRentals will acquire RSC in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $18.00
per share, or a total enterprise value of $4.2 billion, including $2.3 billion
of net debt.
The Insurance
Institute for Business & Home Safety released a new report that provides an
analysis of residential building codes in the 18 hurricane-prone coastal states
along the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast.
A working group of the American Concrete
Institute’s Committee 131 on building information modeling is actively
developing an “Information Delivery Manual” for cast-in-place concrete.