The Mechanical Contractors Association of America will hold its first green-building conference, “Catching the Next Wave: Seizing the Green Opportunities that Lie Ahead,” Sept. 24-26, in Milwaukee, WI. The three-day
IAPMO’s 78th annual Education and Business Conference will be held at the Flamingo hotel and casino in Las Vegas, NV, Sept. 23-27, 2007. Emmy® award-winning actor and comedian Alan Thicke
Paul Graham, owner of Paul’s Plumbing &
Heating, Worthington, Mass., won a new service van when he beat a field of 46
regional time-trial winners in F.W. Webb’s Watts WaterPEX Challenge.
The U.S. Census Bureau of
the Department of Commerce announced June 29 that construction spending during
May 2007 was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,176.6 billion
(0.9 percent) above the revised April estimate of $1,166.0 billion.
At
the recent 14th Council Session of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, the U.S. EPA and its Canadian and Mexican counterparts agreed
that the CEC should lead initiatives to promote green building throughout the
continent.
The metropolitan areas of Indianapolis-Carmel,
Ind., and Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, Ohio-Pa., tied for the title of most
affordable major U.S. housing market in this year’s first quarter, according to
the June 28 Housing
Opportunity Index.
Australian water-efficient toilet manufacturer,
Caroma, announced that 20 of its more than 30 dual-flush toilets for the North
American market have been certified to carry the EPA’s new WaterSense label.
The current round of construction materials
inflation continued in May 2007 with the index up 0.8%, the fourth consecutive
increase after nine months of no change.
About 100 employees of Crane Plumbing LLC will lose their
jobs when the company shutters its steel plant manufacturing operations at the
end of August.
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