Best/Worst States for Energy Efficiency
Oct 20, 2011,
A sour U.S. economy, tight state budgets, and a failure by Congress to adopt a comprehensive energy strategy have not slowed the growing momentum among U.S. states toward increased energy efficiency, according to the fifth edition of the annual ACEEE State Energy Efficiency Scorecard...
Another Drop for Architecture Billings Index
Oct 20, 2011,
Sluggish conditions reported in most areas...
Home Remodeling Activity to Remain Weak Through First Half of 2012
Oct 20, 2011,
A sluggish economy and housing market will continue to hamper home improvement spending well into next year, according to the Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released recently by the Remodeling Futures Program at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University ...
FMI Releases Construction Outlook in Third Quarter 2011 Report
Oct 13, 2011,
FMI recently announced the release of its "Construction Outlook: Third Quarter 2011 Report"...
AGC Reports Construction Spending Inches Up in July and for the Year
Oct 13, 2011,
Construction spending increased by 1.4% between July and August and was up 0.9% compared to August 2010, the Associated General Contractors of America reported recently in an analysis of new U.S. Census Bureau data...
Reed Construction Data Forecasts Residential Construction Continues to Struggle
Oct 13, 2011,
According to Bernard M. Markstein, chief economist for Reed Construction Data (RCD), Norcross, Ga., the residential construction market continues to struggle ...
Small Wind Power Market to Double in Size to $634 Million by 2015
Oct 3, 2011,
Pike Research forecasts that the global market for small wind systems will more than double between 2010 and 2015, rising from $255 million to $634 million during that period...
Nonresidential Construction Spending Increases 1.6% in August
Oct 3, 2011,
In a bit of unexpected news, nonresidential construction spending, which includes both privately and publicly financed construction, was $553.1 billion in August, up 1.6% for the month and 0.1% higher from one year ago, according to the October 3 report by the U.S. Census Bureau...
New Survey Shows Smart Meters Increasing
Sep 28, 2011,
A new survey by the Institute for Electric Efficiency (IEE) shows that more than one-in-five households now have a two-way communicating digital electric meter, and that by 2015, more than half of the homes in the country will have one of the new smart meters...
Pike Research Predicts Uninterruptible Power Supply Market to Expand by 12% in 2011
Sep 28, 2011,
Expansion of the worldwide uninterruptible power supply (UPS) market is driven by the growing need to protect sensitive electronic devices from grid power quality instability as well as by the decreasing acceptance of downtime...
North American Business Conditions Stabilize in September; Improvement Seen Over Next Six Months
Sep 28, 2011,
NEMA's Electroindustry Business Confidence Index (EBCI) indicated that conditions facing the North American electroindustry stabilized in September, after signaling deterioration in each of the three previous months...
Incandescent Lamp Index Increases during Second Quarter
Sep 27, 2011,
NEMA's shipment index for incandescent lamps increased for the second consecutive quarter in Q2 2011...
Construction Employment Increased in 146 out of 337 Metropolitan Areas between August 2010 and August 2011
Sep 26, 2011,
Sodium Vapor HID Lamp Index Declines during the Second Quarter
Sep 22, 2011,
NEMA’s sodium vapor high-intensity discharge (HID) lamps shipment index declined for the fourth consecutive quarter on a year-over-year basis,...
Analyze This, September 2011
Sep 21, 2011,
Good News, Bad News
Sep 21, 2011, Mike Eby, Editor-in-Chief
Firms on EC&M's 2011 Top 50 Electrical Contractors list face another year of construction recession...
2012 Truck & Van Preview
Sep 21, 2011, David Cullen, Executive Editor, and Sean Kilcarr, Senior Editor, Fleet Owner magazine
New truck and van models for 2012 introduced...
Hard Times
Sep 20, 2011, Beck Ireland, Staff Writer
EC&M unveils its 2011 top 50 contractors list...
Office Building and Education Markets Set to Drive Growth in Intelligent Lighting
Sep 20, 2011,
According to a new report from Pike Research, the intelligent lighting controls market is experiencing strong growth...
Manufacturing Technology Orders up 102.9% from 2010
Sep 19, 2011,
July U.S. manufacturing technology orders totaled $506.97 million ...
