Constructioneer articles from August 2008

Constructioneer archives from August 2008

ASHRAE Installs New Officers, Directors.
August 4, 2008... Staff The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) installed new officers and directors at its 2008 Annual Meeting held in June. Lynn G. Bellenger, P.E., Fellow ASHRAE, partner, Pathfinder...

GBC Announces Safety Awards.(Associated General Contractors of America)(Brief article)
August 4, 2008... Staff Several New York state general contractors have been presented Certificates of Commendation for Safety Excellence by the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). The names of the recipients were announced by the General...

ABC Honors Top Projects, Safety Winners.
August 4, 2008... Staff Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) has recognized the nation's top 2007 construction projects during its Excellence in Construction and National Safety Excellence awards celebration at the National Building Museum in...

McQuay International Awarded A/C Contract.
August 4, 2008... Staff McQuay International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Daikin Industries Ltd., has been awarded a contract valued at nearly $15 million to supply air conditioning equipment for the Freedom Tower building (1 World Trade Center) in New...

High-Tech Approach To Pile-Driving.
August 4, 2008... By G. C. Skipper Cianbro Corp. is using a Topcon GR-3 GPS system to speed up the site prep on a 10-acre site in Syracuse, New York. What caught John F. Quinn's immediate attention when he first pulled into the Destiny USA parking lot...

Rammed Aggregate Piers[R] Support Rail System.(GeoStructures, Inc.)(Editorial)
August 4, 2008... By Chris Ourand GeoStructures installed over 1,200 Rammed Aggregate Piers to help support the massive loads riding the tracks at a railway offloading facility in Sewaren, New Jersey. It's today's version of the classic word...

McGowan Builders Begins Leaguers Headquarters.(The Leaguers, Inc)
August 4, 2008... Staff McGowan Builders has broken ground on the $23.5-million Leaguers headquarters in Newark, New Jersey. The Leaguers, Inc., one of the largest nonprofit community organizations in the Newark, NJ, area, and McGowan Builders, Inc....

Bobcat Company Names Winners Of Contest.
August 18, 2008... Staff After an exciting 21 weeks of reviewing entries from Bobcat[R] compact equipment enthusiasts, Bobcat Company officials have selected a grand prize winner, five second-place winners and 10 third-place winners in the How Bobcat...

Thornton Tomasetti Foundation Awards Scholarship.
August 18, 2008... Staff Gar Yan Yeung, a top-ranking senior from the first graduating class of the Urban Assembly School of Design and Construction (UASDC), received a $5,000 Thornton Tomasetti Foundation scholarship at a recent ceremony at UASDC in New...

Jeffreys Named Performance(TM) Brick President.
August 18, 2008... Staff Scott Jeffreys has been named president of Performance(TM) Brick, a new company launching environmentally friendly panelized facade products in the marketplace. The company is based in Darlington, PA. Jeffreys is overseeing...

Kullman Joins USGBC.(Kullman Industries Inc. has joined with U.S. Green Building Council)(Brief article)
August 18, 2008... Staff Kullman, the leading off-site builder of permanent steel and concrete multistory buildings, announced its membership in the U.S. Green Building Council, further formalizing the company's commitment to sustainable building practices....

Levine Joins Douglaston Development.
August 18, 2008... Staff Benjamin Levine has joined Douglaston Development, a full-service real estate development company specializing in residential and mixed-use projects in New York City, as a project manager. Levine, the son of Jeffrey Levine, founder...

ADMAR Supply Hires Product Support Specialists.
August 18, 2008... Staff ADMAR Supply Company, construction equipment rental service-provider and Topcon Master Dealer based in Rochester, NY, recently added a product support specialist for the Survey and Machine Control Department at its Buffalo and...

Tyson Joins Spider As Sales Representative.
August 18, 2008... Staff Spider, a division of SafeWorks, LLC, recently hired Brendan Tyson as District Sales representative for its New York location. In this position, Tyson is responsible for solving the suspended access and safety challenges of...

Rodney Becomes Certified Professional Estimator.
August 18, 2008... Staff The Quandel Group, Inc., a Lower Paxton Township construction firm, is proud to announce that David A. Rodney, project estimator, recently became a Certified Professional Estimator (CPE) by the American Society of Professional...

ASHRAE Installs New Officers.
August 18, 2008... Staff The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) installed new officers and directors at its 2008 Annual Meeting held in June. In Constructioneer's region, ASHRAE's new officers include Treasurer...

News From New York, Pennsylvania.
August 18, 2008... By Christina Fisher A Note From The Editor In this issue of Constructioneer, you will see a new quarterly feature that analyzes various construction industry related stocks. A yearly analysis will run in January 2009. This feature has...

CM Index Bruised, Emerges In Positive Terrain.(Statistical table)
August 18, 2008... By Margot Crabtree, Trade Trends The CM Index ended this quarter at 2462.74, just 1.25 points, or 0.05 percent above its previous reading at the end of March. Stocks struggled this session, often ending further south than they started,...

Interstate 690 Bridge Replacement In Syracuse.
August 18, 2008... By Christina Fisher After inspections revealed cracks in the fascia girders of a bridge on I-690 in Syracuse, NY, the New York State Department of Transportation ordered a complete replacement of the 54-year-old structure. Additional...

The Compact TLB: A Rental Center Staple.
August 18, 2008... By Jon Thorp Norris Sales Company proves there's a solid place in the rental market for the compact TLB. When the compact tractor loader backhoe (TLB) first motored onto the scene a little more than 30 years ago, it faced an uphill...