A recent forecast from Reed Business Information's Jim Haughey, RBI's construction industry economist, predicts $41.7 billion in multifamily construction spending in 2005, a dip of about 4.7 percent from the $43.8 billion spent this year.
According to statistics complied by the Gypsum Association, the United States gypsum board industry shipped a total of 8.655 billion square feet of material during the third calendar quarter (July through September) of 2004.
New Hampshire has recently adopted two key National Fire Protection Association safety codes. The 2003 edition of NFPA 1, Uniform Fire Code and the 2000 edition of NFPA 101, Life Safety Code are now part of the state's set of model safety codes.
Johnson Level & Tool and Fuller Tool have announced an alliance wherein Johnson Level becomes the exclusive supplier of Fuller's line of hand tools in the United States. Johnson Level will service Fuller's U.S. customers and begin selling into both retail and industrial channels beginning in January.
The Association of the Wall and Ceiling Industries-International has announced the completion of the revised EIFS seminar content called "EIFS-Doing it Right," which was launched in September ...
Hartford Concrete Products Inc., an employee-owned corporation and manufacturer of precast concrete products, recently conducted and passed both ISO 9001:2000 and National Precast Concrete Association re-certification audits in the same week ...
DeWalt announced the findings of its recent research study, which identifies job site security (and the resulting loss of productivity) as the primary concern among professional contractors and other construction end users ...
Chicago magazine, the largest city monthly magazine in the U.S., has named USG as one of the 25 best companies to work for in the Chicago metropolitan area ...
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