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Vancouver's
2010 Winter Olympic facilities exemplify sustainability
BY CANDACE ROULO
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — With the 2010 Winter
Olympics taking place this month here, Vancouver is the center of
attention, as well as the Vancouver Convention Centre, Richmond Olympic
Oval and Vancouver Olympic Village — all LEED certified buildings
built specifically for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games.
The Vancouver Convention Centre, serving as the main international media
centre for the games and providing workspace for approximately 7,000
accredited broadcasters and technicians, just received LEED Platinum
certification. It is the first convention centre in the world to receive
this level of LEED certification for new construction by the Canada
Green Building Council.
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Most popular
tools? The survey says …
BY ROBERT P. MADER
CHICAGO — Contractors are making more tool purchases
at home centers, a CONTRACTOR survey has found. Additionally,
contractors are increasingly working in the service, repair and retrofit
markets, with the aftermarket accounting for 72% of their work.
CONTRACTOR’s annual 2010 Power Tool Study was completed by 446 readers
this January.
Home centers continue to make increases, overtaking plumbing wholesalers
and chipping away at the leader, industrial supply houses.
Interestingly, Internet purchases were down from last year, perhaps
because contractors prefer to see and handle the tool before buying it.
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Contractors
must be lead certified
WASHINGTON — Contractors who perform work in housing
built before 1978 must be trained and certified to comply with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency’s Lead Renovation, Repair, and
Painting (RRP) regulation. The rule applies to any contractor who might
disturb lead paint to, for example, service behind-the-wall plumbing.
Contractors who don’t get trained and certified by the April deadline
will be subject to hefty fines.
The EPA’s RRP regulation affects a wide range of contracting firms,
including renovators, painters, electricians, plumbers, maintenance
firms, and others. It applies to pre-1978 housing and “child-occupied
facilities,” which would include childcare centers and schools.
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Hansen
Mechanical performs boiler upgrade at zoo
BROOKFIELD, ILL. — The Chicago Zoological Park —
better known as Brookfield Zoo — has been in business since 1934. The
216-acre campus sponsors numerous research and conservation efforts
around the globe, and is home to more than 2,300 animals of more than
450 species.
In the past decade, the zoo has undergone significant capital upgrades.
New construction has included a wolf habitat and a butterfly tent, while
older buildings have been reconfigured into immersion exhibits, with
animal collections grouped around ecosystems.
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UAC
Members Learn to 'Fight as You Train'
Leadership, teamwork and training are crucial to a
business’s success, motivational speaker Keni Thomas , Bronze Star for
Valor recipient emphasized to members of the Union-Affiliated
Contractors at the Feb. 3-5 Union-Affiliated Contractors’ meeting in
Palm Harbor, Fla.
Thomas’s message of "Train as you Fight - Fight as you Train"
emphasizes continued improvement and training as vital steps to success
in battle and in life. The highly successful book and movie "Blackhawk
Down" is based on his Army company’s mission in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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Pool &
Kent Fla. wins effluent pump station job
MIAMI -- EMCOR Group Inc. announced that its Poole &
Kent Co. of Florida subsidiary has received a general construction
contract from the Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department for the South
District Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) in Miami, Fla.
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