Category: #communities
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NAFA Honors 33 Facilities With Fall 2025 Clean Air Award
The National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) has announced 33 recipients of its Fall 2025 Clean Air Award, a distinguished commendation recognizing facilities that demonstrate excellence in improving indoor air quality through advanced air filtration practices. Presented twice each year, the Clean Air Award honors building owners and managers who go above and beyond industry standards…
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Swinerton Tops Out $111M Multifamily Project in Charlotte
Swinerton Builders (Swinerton), an industry-leading commercial general contractor with offices nationwide, announces the topping out of Cordo, an $111 million multifamily development in Charlotte’s Optimist Park and the construction firm’s fifth collaboration with Space Craft. Just blocks from Joinery and Oxbow, also developed by Space Craft and built by Swinerton, Cordo is designed to be…
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CarbonCure Producers Deliver 10M Loads of Low-Carbon Concrete
CarbonCure Technologies, a carbon utilization technology company enabling lower-carbon concrete production at concrete plants worldwide, today announced a major achievement: 10 million truckloads of CarbonCure concrete produced to date by its concrete producer network. “This milestone reflects the extraordinary leadership of our innovative concrete industry partners using CarbonCure to produce high quality, lower carbon mixes,”…
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Engineers Applaud SPEED Act Advancement
The American Council of Engineering Companies, the business voice of America’s engineering industry, released the following statement on the House Natural Resources Committee’s advancement of the Speed Act. America’s engineering industry designs the infrastructure that powers our economy and protects our communities. We strongly support responsible environmental review through the NEPA process, which ensures these critical…
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MVE + Partners Creates Communities from Former Retail
Malls and big box stores are continuing to go out of business due to a stronger reliance on ecommerce. MVE + Partners, a leading architecture firm, with a significant presence in Southern California, is building new thriving mixed-use complexes in a location that is seeing significant demand for housing with retail on premise. Overland and Ayres – Opened in September 2025, the…
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84 Lumber Hosts Capitol Christmas Tree in Lenexa
84 Lumber hosted the 2025 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree on Veterans Day during a special stop at its Lenexa, Kansas, store as the tree makes its cross-country journey from Nevada to Washington, D.C. 84 Lumber has served as the presenting sponsor of the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree for the past four years. “This program connects people…
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Building More Than Structures: Strengthening Communities
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When a construction‑oriented company steps beyond windows, walls and beams and becomes a catalyst for community healing, something remarkable happens. In one such case, Renewal by Andersen donated a major renovation to the Dempsey Center — a move that illustrates how firms in the built‑environment sector can become genuine community builders, not just contractors. Why…
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Poettker Clay Shoot Raises $43K for Dream On 3
Poettker Construction, an award-winning, design-build general contractor, recently held its second annual Poettker Charity Clay Shooting Competition at Meadow Wood Farms in Waxhaw, N.C. Through the tremendous support from its sponsors and partners, the event raised $43,000 for Dream On 3 Carolinas, a charity dedicated to making sports dreams a reality for children and young adults…
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Bob Neff of Delta Faucet Elected President of PMI Board 2026
Plumbing Manufacturers International members elected Bob Neff as president of the 2026 PMI Board of Directors during PMI’s 71st Annual Meeting of the Membership yesterday. An enterprise product compliance and regulatory manager for Masco Corporation and Delta Faucet Company, Neff succeeds Belinda Wise, a Neoperl US board of directors member. Wise will remain on the board…

