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Featured Builder's Profile / South Kingstown RI
Liberty Cedar
Leading top quality specialty wood products, tropical lumbers & domestic hardwoods, custom milling and flooring, trim packages, timbers and other materials serving Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Long Island with excellent customer service. Delivery to other areas via common carrier.
Shop online at Libertycedar.com
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AVONITE Flex – Comfort and Elegance for Sanitaryware Applications
By Daniel Moore / March 8, 2022Aristech Surfaces LLC is pleased to introduce AVONITE Flex, a new, patent-pending ultra-formable solid surface. This innovative, thermoformable solid surface gives sinks, baths, formed wet walls, and other sanitaryware...
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Greenlight for new Accoya US plant in Tennessee
By Phil Garcia / March 5, 2022The foundation and building of a new Accoya wood production facility in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA, will begin soon as part of the Accoya USA, LLC joint venture between Accsys...
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Mitrex Introduces “Solar Brick” a Product that Converts Buildings into Energy-Generating Power Plants
By Zach Myers / March 3, 2022Mitrex, a Canadian manufacturer of solar technology, is introducing Solar Brick, a solar-integrated facade solution designed for use as brick wall cladding that converts a building into a renewable...
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Nation’s Best acquires Arkansas’ Weiss Do it Best Lumber
By Chris Gordon / March 2, 2022Weiss Do It Best Lumber in Perryville, Arkansas, has been acquired by Nation’s Best. “Weiss Lumber is a great fit with the Nation’s Best family of home improvement businesses,”...
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ABC: Nonresidential construction spending increased, but weak in January
By Glenn Pierce / March 1, 2022According to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of Census Bureau data, national nonresidential construction spending increased by 1.3 percent in January. Nonresidential spending for the month totaled $838.9...
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CRH’s Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope will be Acquired by KPS Capital Partners
By Alex Matthews / February 28, 2022KPS Capital Partners, LP announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope Inc. from CRH plc for approximately $3.45 billion in cash through a newly...
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NovikStone Expands Dry Stack and Premium Hand-Cut Stone Siding Lineups with On-Trend Color Onyx
By Chris Gordon / February 25, 2022Derby Building Products’ Novik brand has added Onyx, a popular deep black tone, to its NovikStone Dry Stack Stone and Premium Hand-Cut stone siding lines. “Based on in-depth color...
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ABC: Construction Industry Faces 650,000 Workforce Shortage in 2022
By Jack Bjorklund / February 25, 2022According to a forecast prepared by Associated Builders and Contractors, to meet labor demand in 2022, the construction sector will need to attract roughly 650,000 additional workers on top...
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NAHB: Single-family home size keeps on growing despite pandemic
By Jack Bjorklund / February 23, 2022According to the National Association of Home Builders, home sizes are increasing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The viral crisis is projected to increase the need for...
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Westshore Roofing Brings GAF Energy’s Timberline Solar to San Francisco’s South Bay
By Daniel Moore / February 22, 2022Westshore Roofing, a premier roofing company in California, is the first in San Jose to provide the new, award-winning Timberline Solar roof. GAF Energy, a Standard Industries business and...