Every year approximately 100 million tons of pavement material is reclaimed and 95 percent is returned to the roads and highways it originated from, making asphalt pavement one of America’s most recycled materials. Asphalt cement –the material that holds pavement together- can be reactivated through heat. When the asphalt is milled up, it is then taken […]
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Summary: In an effort to broaden its audience reach, Greenbuild International Conference and Expo (Greenbuild), the world’s largest conference dedicated to promoting green construction principles, has partnered with U.S. Builders Review, a nationally recognized trade publication. The partnership provides both parties with an opportunity to further educate laypeople and industry professionals alike about the benefits […]
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Often times when homeowners want to cut energy costs they turn to new light bulbs, more efficient appliances or sealing up old windows. While these solutions make a difference, in most cases the real problem lies deep within the home in the duct system. 50 percent of the average home and commercial building’s energy bill is spent […]
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For many, it’s been all too easy to write off video-gamers as wasting their time. How could the successful retrieval of the Sword of a Thousand Truths land a guy a job? Why would countless hours of Diablo II make for a promising new hire? Yet hand-eye coordination skills stand to benefit from gaming in […]
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This March, Associated General Contractors of America (AGCA) announced plans to release a new domain specific to the construction industry: .Build. Touted as a new top-level domain name, .Build has been available to the public for pre-registration since late April. For $99 per year, building industry websites can convert to .Build.
The release comes […]
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