The Portland Concrete Association is calling on members of the building industry to submit nominations for the 2009 Sustainable Leadership Awards.

In an era when home design equates to home-sales success as never before, the National Association of Home Builders recently recognized the contributions of Aram Bassenian, AIA, and Carl Lagoni, AIA, to advancing the art of residential design.

The Clinton Climate Initiative and the U.S. Green Building Council expanded their partnership to radically reduce CO2 and other greenhouse gas emissions from the built environment on a global scale, with an initial focus on accelerating efforts to drive efficiency in existing buildings.

The 19th annual METALCON International Conference and Exhibition - the only resource offering all the products and ideas for designing and building with metal - will be held Oct. 6-8 at the Tampa Bay Convention Center in Tampa, Fla.

In spite of the continuing struggles of the nation's economy, the 2009 International Roofing Expo (IRE) will go down as one of the best.

The American Architectural Foundation (AAF) is scheduled to present its 2009 Keystone Award today (Feb. 6) to U.S. Conference of Mayors President Miami Mayor Manuel A. Diaz at the 20th Annual Accent on Architecture Gala in Washington, D.C.

XCEPTIONAL Metals, a division of Duro-Last Roofing, Inc., announced the availability of a new reference manual at its recent National Sales Seminar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The new piece showcases the products, edge details, and accessories available from EXCEPTIONAL Metals along with CAD drawings of these products, technical data, and a metal color chart.

Donald Ray Presson, 77, the founder and president of Spray King Manufacturing, Inc. of Fresno, Calif., died Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, after a long illness. He was born March 17, 1931.

Greeted in the morning by a panel of industry superstars at the keynote address and complemented in the afternoon by nearly 400 companies showing off the newest trends, the International Roofing Expo opened Tuesday at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center with a pledge for better times ahead.

Millard Fuller, the visionary Christian with a single-minded, some say stubborn, focus that resulted in more than 300,000 houses built for the poor, died unexpectedly Monday night, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.