The American National Standards Institute Board of Standards Review approved the “Withdraw for Cause Request of ANSI/SIA A92.10 Transport Platforms” submitted by the American Society of Safety Engineers as Secretariat for ASC A10 Construction and Demolition Operations.

Fascan International, exclusive U.S. distributor of FASSI cranes, is offering drywall distributors up to $10,000 in reimbursements for performing regularly scheduled maintenance on their drywall booms.

Dryvit Systems has announced that National Quality Assurance has completed a final audit of its West Warwick, R.I., headquarters and has awarded ISO 14001:2004 certification to the facility.

Roy Zeh has joined Alabama Metal Industries Co. (AMICO) as managing building product sales in southern region. Roll-Kraft has added Jayne Herak as director of sales.  Simonton Windows has named

Paul S. Quigg, fire-protection engineer who helped develop drywall screws, died at age 80 in November. A Barrington, Ill., resident, he passed of liver cancer in the Hospice of Northeastern Illinois in Woodstock.

When Hacker Industries planned its 25th Anniversary Conference in New Orleans this past November, the company decided to do something that would impact the conference host city.

In a major initiative to make housing a central part of the new economic stimulus package, NAHB and its allies in the Fix Housing First coalition will be converging on Capitol Hill this week to present an aggressive plan that would create jobs and stimulate home sales in 2009.

PCA Chief Economist Edward Sullivan is expected to present an economic forecast regarding residential construction at the International Builders’ Show on Tuesday, Jan. 20 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

MiTek Industries Inc., supplier of engineered connector products, equipment, software and services for the residential building components industry, has announced that it will acquire full ownership of Aegis Metal Framing LLC, provider of pre-fabricated cold-formed steel framing products.

DeWALT has announced Stan Foster from Paxton, Ill., as the winner of the Top 17 Finish Carpenters competition. Foster received the most online votes for his project.