Construction News

AGCO Corporation has built and opened three new tractor assembly centers in the United States.

Zelan Bhd, a 39 percent owned associate of MMC Corporation Bhd, has an order book of RM3.5 billion, comprising mostly international power plant and property construction projects.

Dec 3, 2008 10:01 am US/Central The crash of the housing market will mean the end of operations for Kimball Hill Inc., formerly one of the largest builders in the Chicago suburbs.

On the 2008 list, Fluor ranked number 15 among the Top 50. This is the third straight year that Fluor has been named to G.I. Jobs" Top 50 List.

Colonial BancGroup said today it has received preliminary approval to participate in the United States Treasury Department's capital purchase program.

The Washington Department of Natural Resources has granted a mining company a new lease to build a dock for an expanded gravel mine on Maury Island in south Puget Sound.

Wholesale power generator Constellation Energy said Tuesday it likely would have filed for bankruptcy protection had it not received an immediate $1 billion infusion from a unit of Warren Buffett's Berkshire ...

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation announced it has received an order to build the ST-2 communications satellite for a joint venture between Singapore Telecommunications Limited and Taiwan"s Chunghwa Telecom ...

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush has been named to the board of Rayonier Inc. effective Dec.

Struggling homebuilder Beazer Homes USA Inc. said Tuesday its fiscal fourth-quarter losses more than tripled as revenue plunged and its income tax provision ballooned.

Losses for the quarter ended Sept. 30 totaled $473.9 million, or $12.29 per share, compared with year-ago losses of $155.2 million, or $4.03 per share. Losses from continuing operations totaled $12.32 per share in the latest period.

Atlanta-based Beazer said revenue fell to $712.6 million from $1.09 billion as home closings tumbled 38 percent.

CSR today announced the launch of RoadRunner2, the second in its highly successful range of designs for Bluetooth in-car hands-free kits.

Insituform Technologies, Inc. , through its Canadian subsidiary Insituform Technologies Limited, has been awarded a $4.4 million contract from the City of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.

Among the companies whose shares are expected to see active trade in Tuesday's session are Staples Inc., Sears Holdings Corp., and Marvell Technology Group Ltd.

Forest River Inc. is acquiring most of the assets of Coachmen Industries Inc.a s RV Group.

State officials say the cost of removing and capping PCB-contaminated sediment in the lower Fox River is expected to leave paper mills or their insurance companies with a $600 million bill.

Click on the magnifying glass to enlarge image. Photograph: GeoEye From a vantage point 423 miles above the Earth, the lawless waters of the Gulf of Aden appear tranquil and the 330-metre-long ship sitting low ...

Chiyoda Corporation , Japan's leading engineering and construction firm, has been awarded a contract by Tokuyama Corporation for the Front-End Engineering Design of a polycrystalline silicon plant in Malaysia.

Employees at Lafarge North America Inc.'s Harleyville Cement Plant received international recognition for their contributions to wildlife habitat conservation at the Wildlife Habitat Council's 20th Annual ...

Synygy, Inc., a recognized authority on sales performance management and the most experienced provider of sales compensation management solutions, will hold a live webcast on creating effective sales ...

ONE OF THE MEN A SUSPECT IN ARSON OF JAKE'S PLACE IN NATCHEZ FOUR MONTHS EARLIER Federal agents who investigated the December 1964 murder of Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris in the mid-1960s believed that ...