Industry News
FMI’s Q209 Construction Outlook Forecasts Nonresidential Construction to Fall 14% in 2009 and 17% in 2010
FMI, management consultants and investment bankers for the construction industry, recently released its Construction Outlook: Second Quarter 2009 Report. FMI’s Construction Outlook, a quarterly, construction-market forecast and supplement to the…
Cooper Controls and Electronics Diversified Sign Technology and Marketing Agreement
Cooper Controls and Electronics Diversified, LLC (EDI), a manufacturer of theatrical lighting and control products, have entered into a technology and marketing agreement. Cooper Controls has acquired various IP and…
Flash Poll: Should Energy Codes Regulate Existing Buildings?
WordPress is a great blogging tool, but it doesn’t allow you to create polls. So I found a little gadget at another website that lets you create coding for a…
AGC Analysis Shows Construction Employment Declines
Construction employment declined in all but 19 communities nationwide this June as compared to June-2008, according to a new analysis of metropolitan-area employment data released today by the Associated General…
Borrowers to Banks: Show Me the Money
That’s the title of this article by The Wall Street Journal, which reveals how difficult credit conditions have become for some developers. The developer of Destiny USA, a shopping mall…
7,000 LEDs Used for Light Art Project at Goggleworks
This is an amazing project. At the Goggleworks Center for the Arts, Color Kinetics‘ iColor Flex SLX strands were manually installed in the glass of the art center, creating the…
DOE Releases Summary Results from Round 8 of CALiPER Testing
The Department of Energy has completed Round 8 of product testing through its CALiPER testing program, available here. Round 8 focused mostly on replacement lamps, including MR16s, PARs and small…
IES Announces Call for Papers for Its Annual Conference
The IES Conference Papers Committee is seeking additional work to be presented in a Poster Session at the IES Conference in Seattle, WA on November 15-17, 2009. Topics of interest…
Architectural Billings Index Takes Turn for Worse
After showing signs of stabilization over the last three months, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) plunged nearly five points in June. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the…
2009 IECC Requires 50% of Lamps in Home to be High-Efficacy
Here’s an article I wrote for the July issue of Electrical Contractor Magazine on the topic of a new residential lighting provision in the 2009 International Energy Conservation Code (IECC),…
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