Lexent Metro Connect, the leading provider of dark fiber networks in the New York Metropolitan area, today announces its continuing commitment to 30-day timelines for dark fiber installations in Manhattan, even during New York City’s annual holiday construction embargo. To assist in less traffic disturbances during the busy holiday season, the New York City Department of Transportation restricts street and sidewalk construction from November 24th...
Champion Exposition Services (“Champion”), a leading provider of comprehensive event solutions and exposition services, today announced the company’s Exhibits unit will offer two-story trade show booths for rent. Champion Exhibits™ utilizes their outstanding service and creativity to construct customized multi-level structures, crafting modified solutions based on each client’s unique trade show requirements. All production is done in-house...
Wind Energy America Inc. announced today that it has started ordering parts and commencing construction and interconnect operations to complete its wind farm project in Minnesota which contains two of the Gamesa wind turbines acquired in the Boreal Energy asset purchase. When commissioning of these two turbines is completed, WNEA will receive its first material revenues from generating utility-scale electricity from wind power. This Buffalo Ridge...
Construction Grands Projets, leader (65 %) of a joint-venture with the American contractor Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc. (35 %), recently signed a contract with the City of Detroit (Detroit Water and Sewerage Department) to build a tunnel for carrying treated wastewater from the city for discharge into the Detroit river. This contract, worth US$299 million (around €230 million), involves digging a 1.9km tunnel with an interior diameter of 6.5m...
AEC Software, developers of project management software, announced today the final results from a green building survey of home building, architecture, and construction industry managers. When asked if clients are more or less patient with green construction projects compared to traditional building projects, 70 percent of respondents said that their customers had the same level of patience, or even less patience. These results come on the heels of...
Axion Golf — a division of Axion International Holdings Inc. and provider of the company’s 100-percent “green” materials for building golf-course bridges and walkways — today announces PGA TOUR star and accomplished course designer Brad Faxon will promote its products as company advisor. A 25-year TOUR veteran with eight victories and two Ryder Cup appearances, Faxon will help market Axion’s environmentally sound,...
MYR Group Inc. (“MYR”), a leading specialty contractor serving the electrical infrastructure market in the United States, announced that its executive management will ring the closing bell at the NASDAQ MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square at 4:00 p.m. Eastern time on Monday, December 1, 2008. The video can be seen on the NASDAQ Tower in Times Square, the largest stationary video screen in the world or at http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/marketsite_about.stm. MYR’s...
Rehfeldt Construction, a general contractor from Vancouver, Washington, has selected Viewpoint V6 Software® from Portland, Oregon-based Viewpoint Construction Software™ to fully integrate all aspects of its operations including Accounting and Project Management. “With the increasing economic uncertainties, we knew Rehfeldt needed to upgrade its accounting and operational software to increase efficiencies and put more money on the bottom line,”...
The envision Group, is pleased to announce that its environmental contracting division, through it’s subsidiary IONA Contractors Ltd., has been awarded $4.5 Million in contracts for 2008. “We appreciate the opportunity to provide our innovative approaches and considerable experience to these remediation projects and are pleased to support our clients in meeting their environmental objectives”, stated Jimmy Ganley, Environmental Manager...
Although real estate development has stagnated in most parts of the country, it’s moving ahead rapidly on Jekyll Island, Georgia. In October, the board of directors for the Jekyll Island Authority approved revitalization plans for the island paradise, and this week Jekyll Oceanfront Resort becomes the first redeveloped condominium hotel to open its doors to owners and guests on this state-owned barrier island. ADVERTISEMENT “During the...