The National Center for Construction Education and Research has launched a new marketing campaign to revive the meaning and importance of craftsmanship in the construction industry.

Hacker Industries Inc. is pleased to announce its participation as the official cementitious floor underlayment supplier and sponsor of The New American Home 2009, the annual show home of the International Builders’ Show.

An estimated two-thirds of the nation's non-residential construction companies are planning to cut their payrolls, according to new employment and business forecast figures released last week by the Associated General Contractors of America.

CertainTeed’s CertaSpray open-cell polyurethane spray foam insulation has received an evaluation report from the ICC Evaluation Service Inc. confirming the product meets building code standards.

iCrete, a concrete technology company, has signed a strategic use agreement with Webcor Builders, a large commercial general contractor and concrete contractor in California.

Business-columnists Ellen Rohr and Al Levi are offering a teleconference program designed to assist business owners grow through acquisitions.

A story published January 3 by Charley Hannagen posted on the United Carpenters News and Information Web site reports that a number of Central New York union pension funds lost money in the $50 billion fraud caused by Bernard L. Madoff.

Benjamin Obdyke has renamed its Mortairvent product as Home Slicker Stone & Stucco and incorporated it into the Home Slicker family of products.

Charlotte, N.C.-based National Gypsum announced its complete line of XP interior gypsum products has achieved GreenGuard Indoor Air Quality Certified status and GreenGuard Children & SchoolsSM Certification.

Swett & Crawford has expanded its Specialty Stucco Insurance Strategy with a new product that provides stand alone completed operations coverage to general contractors who subcontract EIFS work.