Design firm Stantec has won top engineering awards for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park and Corning Riverfront Park, which are bringing new vitality to urban spaces in Rochester and Albany, NY. The project teams were honored by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of New York in its annual 2019 Engineering Excellence Awards program.
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Glen-Gery Corporation has announced that its parent company, Ibstock plc, has entered into an agreement to sell Glen-Gery Corporation to Brickworks Limited. The transaction is expected to be completed by the end of the year, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Glen-Gery is a leading North American brick and stone manufacturer headquartered in Wyomissing, Pa. The company operates 10 manufacturing plants and 10 Masonry Supply Centers throughout the U.S.
Read MoreWesley Ramirez has joined Stantec as a senior architectural team member, strengthening the healthcare buildings team in the firm’s Sacramento office.
Read MoreVitro Architectural Glass announced that 181 Fremont, a new skyscraper in San Francisco featuring Solarban® 70XL solar control, lowemissivity (low-e) glass, has won a USGlass Green Design Award.
Read MoreTRIA, a partner-led architecture firm with a focus on designing unique spaces for science, technology and corporate clients, is pleased to announce that two new senior design professionals have joined the firm. TRIA welcomes Jonathan Romig as senior project manager/senior lab planner, and Natasha Tashian, NCIDQ, as senior interior designer.
Read MoreU.S. LBM Holdings, LLC has named John Gorczynski vice president of Exterior Products. In this newly created role, Gorczynski is responsible for developing and leading U.S. LBM’s market growth strategy in exterior products.
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View announced a $1.1 billion investment from the SoftBank Vision Fund. Demand for View’s intelligent windows is rapidly growing as companies increasingly recognize the benefits of modernizing their work environments to improve the health and productivity of their employees. View makes the entire skin of buildings intelligent. which improves human health and wellness by preserving unobstructed views, automatically letting in the optimum amount of natural light, and greatly reducing heat and glare. It also cuts the building energy consumption by up to 20 percent.
Read MoreGeneral contractors want glass suppliers to deliver products faster, on time and at the right price, according to a first-of-its-kind survey commissioned by Vitro Architectural Glass. The survey, which was conducted by a leading construction industry research firm, encompassed 146 decision-makers from general contractor, construction management and design/builder firms.
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KAI Design & Build announces that it has acquired St. Louis-based Volk Construction Company, effective Oct. 1, 2018. The acquisition provides KAI’s clients with a greater pool of construction expertise and talent, and Volk’s clients with a greater depth of integrated design and construction solutions.
Read MoreAs a Dodge Data & Analytics company, IMS will benefit from Dodge’s market and project intelligence and corresponding insights. Through the acquisition, the A/E/C community gains access to early stage professional service projects in addition to Dodge’s Sweets, the world’s largest online building product database with over 100,000 product listings, allowing users to add product details directly to the projects they are working on.
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