Construction Informer

How Much Stimulation Will Your School District Lose? Or, maybe by now it should read – Did Lose. Pro Publica has put up a tool on the Web where you can see how much construction money won’t be flowing to your school system if the Senate version of the stimulus package gets passed. Some builders [...]

Housing Sales Upturn Predicted for UK: Some promising news comes from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) in the UK where housing market surveys predict a 10 percent increase in sales in 2009. That comes on the heels of a 25 percent drop in home values since the peak in 2007 and an anticipated [...]

As the built environment continues on its path of price adjustment there are few places on the globe where that adjustment isn’t taking place.
According to one British news report Barratt Developments is cutting its new home prices nearly in half and other builders there are building higher and selling cheap. A Barratt spokesperson says the [...]

If you need to give an old building a new look there could be a lot to recommend using aluminum composite panels (ACPs). This material has been around for a long time but there are many efforts over time that have improved upon its original qualities. As you might expect,  Reynolds Aluminum is one manufacturer [...]

Pakistan To Start Major Construction Efforts: The Prime Minister of Pakistan announced his country will be undertaking a project that will build a million houses for government retirees. Construction is expected to start soon. Yusaf Raza Gilani also said the government will be rebuilding prime tourist areas that were damaged by a 2005 earthquake. He [...]