Real Estate Journalists Award NAREE Bivins Fellowships and Announce New Feb 09 Competition Category

The National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE) awarded Bivins Fellowships to two mid-career journalists and unveiled a new category for its upcoming 59th annual journalism competition. The winners of the NAREE Bivins Fellowship, named during the NAREE Summit in Orlando on Nov. 7, are freelance writer Lisa Prevost and Jeff Ostrowski, a real estate and business reporter for the Palm Beach Post. The $5,000 NAREE Bivins Fellowship Program, now... 

Your Solar Home Inc. Introduces SolarSheat(R) Hot Water

Your Solar Home Inc. (www.yoursolarhome.com) introduces SolarSheat® Hot Water, a dual mode space heating and domestic solar hot water system without glycol for residential use. Your Solar Home, a leading provider of solutions for solar space heating, announced today that it will be selling a new product called SolarSheat® Hot Water. The SolarSheat® Hot Water product provides a dual mode heating capability for supplemental residential solar domestic... 

Homes & Land Adds WSJ.com Real Estate to Targeted Marketing Program for Realtors®

Homes & Land, the affluent home buyer’s marketplace, announced today that Realtor® advertisers will have more opportunities to promote high-end listings to specific demographic groups by purchasing Spotlight Ads on WSJ.com Real Estate http://www.wsj.com/realestate. Nearly one million people, with an average household income of $198,000, visit WSJ.com Real Estate each month. “WSJ.com Real Estate provides our Realtor® advertisers with a highly... 

AbsolutelyNew Licenses Quick-Release Impact Wrench Tool

AbsolutelyNew, Inc., a next generation consumer products company that brings independent inventors’ best ideas to market, has signed an exclusive licensing and manufacturing deal with inventor Ted Johnson of Benton, AR. The company will start selling his Quick-Release Impact Wrench™ in Spring 2009. The Quick-Release Impact Wrench is the world’s first impact wrench to offer safety and convenience without compromise, whereas impact wrenches have... 

Hammersmith School Bags Best Brick Award

The new music and drama building, at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, beat off hundreds of competitors to take the prestigious 2008 Brick Awards. The Brick Awards is one of Britain’s most respected design competitions. Run by the Brick Development Association, the annual contest provides the definitive showcase for what brick can do. And Latymer School was up against some stiff competition. There were a record number of entrants this year, with... 

Vico Customer P. J. Dick Incorporated/Hunt Construction Group Awarded New Pittsburgh Penguins Arena

Vico congratulates P. J. Dick Incorporated/Hunt Construction Group on the award of the new Pittsburgh Penguins Arena project. Building a sports stadium is a complex undertaking. From optimal seating/viewing layouts, to support systems like plumbing and electrical, to a large-span roof; all the while managing the construction efforts in the congested downtown location with a very tight schedule. P. J. Dick Incorporated/Hunt Construction Group brought... 

Learn about the World Building Materials Market Brief

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report related to the Building materials industry is available in its catalogue. World Building Materials Market Brief The global outlook series on Building Materials provides a collection of statistical anecdotes, market briefs, and concise summaries of research findings. The report offers an aerial view of the global construction landscape, identifies major market segments, and offers a bird’s... 

Harrisburg’s Triple Crown Corporation Wins Association Awards

Triple Crown Corporation of Harrisburg took home awards from two separate professional organizations during the month of October. Two of their model homes won a total of eleven awards at the Harrisburg Home Builders Association’s Parade of Homes Gala held October 2 at the West Shore Country Club in Camp Hill. Triple Crown’s rental communities won a host of awards at the Apartment Association of Central PA’s (AACP) Annual Best of... 

KMC Corporation is Awarded the 2008 Excellence in Construction Award for the Renovation of The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach, Florida, USA

KMC Corporation today announced it has been awarded the ABC Florida East Coast Chapter 2008 Excellence in Construction Eagle Award for the renovation of The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach in the category of Renovations between $30-75 Million, at an event held at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on Friday, October 24th 2008. The “Excellence in Construction” Awards are presented by each chapter of ABC and are known throughout the industry.... 

Vico Software and Trimble to Integrate Workflows and Use Building Information Models to Construct Better Buildings

Trimble announced the workflow integration of the Vico 5D Virtual Construction(TM) Suite and Trimble construction layout solutions. Now, contractors can create Building Information Models (BIM) in Vico’s Virtual Construction software, export the data directly to the Trimble field layout solution and use the highly accurate data to lay out and construct complex buildings and structures. Extending the Accuracy of BIM to the Field BIM is transforming...