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Birmingham, AL to Host 2010 Green Building Focus Conference and Expo
Beginning Tuesday, August 24th, the city of Birmingham, Alabama will host the 2010 Green Building Focus conference and expo. This 3-day event, which will be held at the Jefferson Convention Complex, is designed to showcase the latest in sustainable building development. Focused on exploring the popular and growing demand for green building, this year’s conference aims to inform and educate the southeast region’s leading architects, engineers, property owners, and construction professionals, as well as students, faculty, and those interested in learning more about the recent trends, technologies and materials available in the green building movement. Read More »
DANISH HEARING AID COMPANY OPENS CO2-NEUTRAL HEADQUARTERS
Hearing aid manufacturer Widex opens its new headquarters just outside Copenhagen in Denmark on June 29. The building combines groundbreaking technology with innovative design to create a harmonious and entirely CO2 free building.
As one of the world’s leading hearing aid manufacturers, Widex is renowned for finding unique solutions to help the hearing impaired. And now the family-owned company has applied this philosophy to challenges such as the depletion of fossil fuels. Read More »
2008 Overall Steel Recycling Rate Hits All-Time High
Record Tonnages and Production Mean Record Levels of Production
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Dec 11, 2009) - The Steel Recycling Institute (SRI) announced today that the overall steel recycling rate for the world’s, and America’s, most recycled material-steel-reached a record high of 83.3 percent. This means that more than 82 million tons of domestic steel scrap was charged into furnaces, both in the United States and abroad, to make new steel products to be used by the steel industry’s customers in meeting consumers’ needs. Read More »





































