Greenbuild International Conference & Expo
Greenbuild 2010 will be in Chicago’s McCormick Place West, the site of Greenbuild 2007 — but with twice as much space! With the tremendous growth of the Greenbuild community, this year it will occupy the entire McCormick Place West.
Read More Work Begins on Silver Cross Medical Building
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Construction Factoring Provides Cash to Support Industry During Recovery
Trends in the Industry Include Consolidation of Development and Construction Firms, With Focus to Debt Reduction Risk Management and Cost Control
Law Brings Changes to Medical Construction
Stafford Hospital in Stafford, Va., designed by Ellerbe Becket.
$11.7 Million Federal Grant to Fund Health Clinic
LEXINGTON, Ky. — An $11.7 million federal grant was awarded to build a 60,000-square-foot physical and mental health treatment facility for the poor and homeless in Lexington.
The grant comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and has been in the works for more than a year.
Read More Violence Against Healthcare Workers Increases
Violence against emergency room nurses and other medical professionals appears to be increasing as the number of drug addicts, alcoholics and psychiatric patients show up regularly in emergency rooms across the country, according to a recent survey of industry professionals.
The survey, produced this year by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, illustrates that visits to ER’s for drug and alcohol-related incidents rose significantly from 1.6 million in 2005 to nearly 2 million in 2008.
Read More Asian demand boosts profit at U.S. manufacturers
Diversified U.S. manufacturers Honeywell International Inc and Ingersoll-Rand Plc beat Wall Street’s profit expectations and raised their forecasts for the rest of the year as strong demand from Asia helped to offset a tepid recovery at home.
U.S. Government backs Unilife’s York, PA manufacturing facility
Construction of state-of-the-art safety syringe manufacturing facility remains on-schedule for completion in late-2010 Unilife Corporation Nasdaq: UNIS today announced that it has secured U.S. Government financial backing to support the construction…