The Home Depot Inc. hasn’t reached any decisions to sell
HD Supply, as it announced additional retail plans on March 22 that include
paying trade professionals $30 an hour to staff stores, and plans to build both
bigger and smaller Home Depot stores.
System
Sensor, a Honeywell company, developed a white paper to address placement,
testing and maintenance of system-connected carbon monoxide detectors based on
NFPA 720.
On March 22, the Associated
General Contractors issued its fourth semiannual Construction Inflation
Alert, which reports that
by the end of 2007, materials costs
could be rising again at a 6% to 8% rate.
The construction management students at the
University of Nebraska at Lincoln needed a large centrifugal pump for hands-on
training, and ITT
Corp.’s Bell & Gossett answered their call.
Uponor
recently donated roughly 9,000 feet of PEX piping to the new Birmingham Ronald
McDonald House, working in concert with two of its channel partners in that
Alabama market.
Knaack Mfg. recently kicked off its popular WEATHER GUARD® Work
Truck Drive-Away promotion, which will give away a 2007 Toyota Tundra to one
grand-prize winner.
Rheem
Tankless Water Heaters recently concluded its first-ever Rheem Dream Truck
Sweepstakes by awarding a new GMC Sierra 1500 4X4 pickup truck to contractor
Ken King of King Backflow Prevention Inc.
SkyMail from Pacific DataVision enables mobile workers to wirelessly dictate,
document and share important messages and events to an individual or group by
simply making a call from their cellular phone.
The Plumbing Division of Peter Mangone Inc. introduces the Mesh Clip™ “stand-up”
fastening system that quickly and securely fastens PEX tubing to wire mesh with
one tool.