- Is Bulk Certification Next for LEED?
If you've seen one bank branch, have you really seen them all? Not if it's a PNC Bank green branch office. Banks, retailers, chain restaurants, and other fast-growing businesses put up scores of new buildings each year. Many would like to construct environmentally friendly structures and be LEED-certified by the ......
- Contractors' demand for construction managers increases
Brian Bettleyon is 25 years old, and he makes nearly $50,000 a year. His bachelor's degree in construction from Penn State Harrisburg landed him a job as a construction manager with Reynolds Construction Management Inc., one of Central Pennsylvania's top construction companies.
- Wagman's Urban Group Wins Awards for Two York Projects
York, Pa.-based Wagman Construction's Urban Group announced that two of their downtown York projects received awards. The Fairmount Project, renovated by Wagman's Urban Group, received the State Historic Preservation Award from Preservation Pennsylvania and the bronze level Commonwealth Design Award from 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania. The Fairmount Project has received ......
- People+Firms
• Mackenzie Keck Inc. , a Hackettstown, N.J.-based general contractor, construction manager, and consultant specializing in upscale retail projects, has acquired green building consulting firm Global Thinking LLC , formerly based in Philadelphia. Global Thinking will be led by green consultant and architect Frank Sherman , who was promoted to ......
- Crow, partner 'lock up' PA correctional
facility.
Crow, partner |lock up' PA correctional facility Wohlsen/Crow, a joint venture comprised of Lancaster, Pennsylvania's Wohlsen Construction Company and New York City's Crow Construction company announced today that it will serve as construction manager on a new 550,000-square-foot medium security prison facility in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The new prison is ......
- Name change connotes adaptability
Peripherals Plus Technologies Inc. has retooled its business strategy and changed its name in an effort to reverse a $1.5 million drop in sales. In May, PPT became Cimbrian, the name of a highly skilled nomadic tribe that lived in Europe more than 2,000 years ago. Mike Schmelder, president of ......
- Construction Forecast 2007
Heavy contractors in the coming year will find some sectors that are running lean — if not out and out dry — while others have new infusions of funding. According to data supplied by Reed Construction Data (owner of Constructioneer), the mildly bad news is that spending in the New ......