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• Bob Burnside Becomes One of The First Certified Green Professional Builders (...
6 Jun 2008 at 12:01am
Robert Burnside, president of Fireside Home Construction, has become one of the nation's first home builders to earn a Certified Green Professional (CGP) designation. The designation is awarded after completing intensive coursework on green building principles and practices. CGB is sponsored by the National Association of Home Builders.
• Screened porch a breath of fresh air (South Bend Tribune)
6 Jun 2008 at 4:07am
WASHINGTON -- One of the first things Mary Henning noticed about her Arlington, Va., house was the tiny bedrooms: three small spaces with three little closets. Not so good. But her reservations disappeared when she stepped through the kitchen and saw the screened porch.
• Useful Websites (Kitchen and Bath Business)
5 Jun 2008 at 12:14pm
The online design universe is thriving like never before, but sometimes the web can seem more like a maze than a resource. Google Inc. pulls up thousands of results for most keywords, and trustworthiness and the Internet don t always go hand and hand.
• Rail transit project workshop June 12 (Honolulu Advertiser)
3 Jun 2008 at 4:08am
The city will host a workshop for potential suppliers of a planned rail transit project from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 12 at the Neal Blaisdell Center. The workshop will outline the project schedule and opportunities for designers, contractors and subcontractors.
• Solar panels meeting resistance (Arizona Daily Sun)
1 Jun 2008 at 11:22pm
In a high-end Flagstaff neighborhood where residents shun the sight of satellite dishes and utility lines, one resident is disregarding the rules.
• Green is the New Gold in Lodging | By John Scaggs and Gregory Hartmann | HVS ...
2 Jun 2008 at 5:28am
Environmental Sustainability offers the greatest opportunity to the lodging industry since the innovation of niche products like limited-service, extended-stay, all-suite, and focused-service hotels and the greatest "perceived" threat since the innovation of teleconferencing. Many of us who have been in the Lodging Industry for 20 years or more will remember when "fads and fears" were discussed ...
• Suit hurts Beauvallon condo sales (Denver Post)
1 Jun 2008 at 12:02am
Owners with units for sale in the towering Beauvallon building at East 10th Avenue and Lincoln Street are struggling to sell their units because a lawsuit against the developer is dissuading potential buyers and hanging up financing for anyone still interested.
• Real Estate Live (Washington Post)
30 May 2008 at 11:32am
Welcome to Real Estate Live, an online discussion of the Washington area housing market with Post Real Estate editor Maryann Haggerty.
• NAHB Headquarters Garners Fourth ENERGY STAR (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
28 May 2008 at 7:15am
WASHINGTON----The National Association of Home Builders has earned its fourth ENERGY STAR designation for the National Housing Center, the downtown Washington, D.C. office building that serves as the association's headquarters.
• The powerful pull of a screened porch (Seattle Times)
31 May 2008 at 2:18am
One of the first things Mary Henning noticed about her Arlington, Va., house was the tiny bedrooms: three small spaces with three little...
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