February is the anniversary month of East Bay’s Mara Construction. This local and general contractor, offering bath remodeling, kitchen remodeling, home additions and more, is celebrating 23 years of business.

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Mara Construction, a general contracting company that offers services like bath remodeling, kitchen remodeling and home additions, is happy to announce that it has been successfully serving the East Bay’s needs for 23 years.

“By offering excellent customer service and good communication with clients, we have been so successful that the majority of our business has come by referrals,” Anthony Maramonte of Mara Construction said. “We like using new technology and take the time to do the job right. We offer complete residential services, from foundations and structural repairs to trim and finish to tile work. I am always on the job site and in constant communication with homeowners.”

Maramonte pays special attention to details, budgets and schedules and all of the staff at Mara Construction places emphasis on listening to the homeowner’s ideas. Great communication is crucial for a general contracting business. Maramonte also features extensive experience working with local architects and provides free estimates.

Mara Construction, one of the most reliable remodeling contractors in East Bay, is a full-service general contractor that offers a variety of services, including kitchen remodeling, bath remodeling, home additions and general renovations. They also complete repairs for foundations (re-leveling, structural or drainage), retaining walls and electrical wiring. Other services include new custom builds, design and engineering, doors and windows, tiles and pavers, foundation repairs, custom wiring, and a myriad of remodeling services.

For more information about any of Mara Construction’s services, call 510-385-8251, or view the company on the web at http://www.maraconstruction.com and http://www.remodelingcontractorseastbay.com. Mara Construction is located in Orinda.

About Mara Construction

Mara Construction provides prompt and efficient construction services at reasonable prices throughout the Bay Area because it believes that customers deserve reasonable prices for projects that will last a lifetime. Mara Construction takes pride in building and remodeling houses and guarantees that customers will remain happy and content living in a brand new or newly remodeled home.

Mara Construction is a big enough company to handle any size job, yet a small enough company to give the customer the personal touch they deserve.

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Anthony Maramonte
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KUALA LUMPUR: The Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) is proposing an eco-friendly label on construction materials.

The plan is part of the national eco-labelling scheme with the participation of the relevant certification bodies.

"Eco-labelling has to be introduced to encourage the use and demand for environmentally preferable building products and construction methods and techniques," said CIDB construction technology and innovation development sector manager, Emasria Ismail.

CIDB plans to come up with a document criteria for eco-labelling as part its strategic recommendations for improving environmental practices in the construction sector.

It is learnt that CIDB has already developed document criteria for panel boards, carpets and wood composites.

Speaking at the Green Construction Conference 2012 here yesterday, Emasria said the board was now finalising the document criteria for steel, with plans to kick start the pilot project in July.

Meanwhile, Kaarin Taipale, a world expert in urban sustainability, said eco-labelling, or green labelling, was a good start in turning the industry green.

She believed in the motivational instruments - sticks (regulations), carrots (incentives), and tambourines (measures to attract programme) - that she said were needed in getting the stakeholders to go green.

"The carrot for contractors is very small, so we are thinking about that, too. However, the "stick" should be equally big, too. We must continue raising the benchmark," said Taipale, who is with Finland's Energy Ministry.

The prime minister's office in Putrajaya would be a model of sustainable building, which can be easily emulated by others.

The central administrative office is slated to undergo a refurbishing exercise to turn the property into an energy efficient building.

Roger Frechette, who is instrumental in the sustainable designing of Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and in collaboration with KFM Holdings Bhd, is involved in the conceptual design that would help improve energy use at the prime minister's office.

The plan is to reduce the building's energy use by 40 per cent from the current baseline use.

The two-day Green Construction Conference 2012 conference brings together visionaries and leading companies in building technology, design and construction. The event is jointly hosted by the Works Ministry and CIDB.

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Output of Hungary's construction sector was down 0.8% in December from the same month a year earlier, the Central Statistics Office (KSH) said on Wednesday.

Output of the building segment fell 11% year-on-year, while output of the civil engineering segment rose 12.5% in the twelve months to December 2011.

In a month-on-month comparison, construction sector output declined 4.1% according to seasonally- and workday-adjusted figures in December after growing 7.3% in November. Output of the building segment fell an adjusted 5.6% from November and civil engineering output rose 0.9% from the previous month as output of organisations in the road and railway building segment rose more than 50% from an extremely low base, KSH noted.

Construction sector output fell 7.8% in January-December from the same period a year earlier after a 10.4% decline in the full year of 2010.

In the entire year 2011, output in the building segment fell 11.3% and output of the civil engineering segment was down 3.8%.

New orders were up 10.5% in December from twelve months earlier in the second twelve-month rise registered since June 2010. New orders in the building segment rose for the first time since September 2010 and were up 10.4% from December 2010. New civil engineering orders were up 10.6% after rising at a similar rate in November, which followed four months of yr/yr declines.

Total contracts held by the sector were still down by 42.5% yr/yr in volume terms as the stock of orders for buildings was down 46.9% and the stock of civil engineering orders dropped 39.7%.

Hungary's construction sector output fell every year since 2006.

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KONE Corporation, press release, February 15, 2012

KONE has been selected to supply 25 eco-efficient elevators with supportive technologies to 25 Churchill Place in London, UK. This new high-rise office building in Canary Wharf will stand at a height of 128 meters once completed in late 2014. The office building is being developed by the Canary Wharf Group and the main contractor is Canary Wharf Construction Limited (CWCL).

The order includes 22 KONE MiniSpace® elevators, of which 20 will be dedicated to transporting passengers and two for freight. MiniSpace elevators are especially suited to high-rise buildings. The other three elevators are KONE MonoSpace® Special, of which two can travel at the high speeds required for firefighting. These elevators, equipped with the energy-efficient KONE EcoDisc® hoisting machine, are 50-70% more efficient than elevators that use conventional traction two-speed or hydraulic technology.

Working together with the elevators is the KONE Polaris® destination control system which will reduce waiting times for the office workers. There will also be KONE Infoscreen displays installed within each passenger car to inform and guide elevator passengers for smoother flow in the 26-floor building. The KONE E-link traffic monitoring system will ensure a high service level of the elevators.

"We are delighted that our longstanding relationship with Canary Wharf Contractors has resulted in another order to provide People Flow® for professionals in this London financial hub," says Ari Lehtoranta, EVP and Area Director of KONE Central and North Europe.

25 Churchill Place has been designed by Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF), the architects behind KONE`s Parisian reference Tour First. Previous KONE CWCL projects include the Citigroup Centre at 25 and 33 Canada Square.

The order was booked in the first quarter of 2012.

For further information, please contact:
Anne Korkiakoski, EVP, Marketing & Communications, KONE Corporation, tel. +358 204 75 4775
Michael Williams, Managing Director, KONE UK, tel. +44 8707748211

About KONE
KONE is one of the global leaders in the elevator and escalator industry. The company has been committed to understanding the needs of its customers for the past century, providing industry-leading elevators, escalators and automatic building doors as well as innovative solutions for modernization and maintenance. The company`s objective is to offer the best People Flow(TM) experience by developing and delivering solutions that enable people to move smoothly, safely, comfortably and without waiting in buildings in an increasingly urbanizing environment. In 2011, KONE had annual net sales of EUR 5.2 billion and on average 35,000 employees. KONE class B shares are listed on the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki Ltd in Finland.

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VAIL, Colorado — The town of Vail is seeking proposals from qualified project managers related to construction of a new municipal office building at 75 S. Frontage Road. The project will include management of relocation logistics for temporary offices, plus coordination of architectural design, entitlements, construction document preparation, and construction and delivery of a new office building.

The request for proposals is being issued following Town Council approval of an agreement with Vail Valley Medical Center and the Steadman Clinic to redevelop the site. The project includes construction of a medical office building on the west side of the property and replacement of the municipal offices on the east side of the site.

Details of the request for proposals will be available on the town's website at vailgov.com in the public notices section beginning Feb. 15. Interested proposers must register with the Community Development for consideration by contacting Shelley Bellm at sbellm@vailgov.com.

Proposals are due by noon on Feb. 24 with the project scheduled to begin on March 8. Construction is anticipated to begin in May 2013 and take approximately 21 months to complete.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about how to use your first meeting with a client to understand their business and collect information that could later inform your keyword research. Now, you’re back at your desk and wondering what to do with all that information.

To begin with, you should have three lists of keyword-types (I call them seeds):

Elements to include in keyword research

Seeds most important to your clients (note that these may include jargon and industry-specific terms that need further research) Seeds that accurately describe the business (these would be your own layman’s terms for what this client does) Seeds that are not relevant or core to your client’s business

I like to refer to these as seeds because they are a seed of an idea that could grow into giant “trees” of information and possibilities.

There’s no need at this point to distinguish between “deck” and “decking” for example, and this is a mistake SEOs often make; trying to narrow the field too much too early.

Let’s dive into each of these a little more deeply using an example of a client I did work for: Artisan Construction Services.

Note that all of these lists have far more than 2-3 keywords on them, but for purposes of example, I’ve simplified them. This client is a local (to Raleigh, NC) remodeling company that specializes in building decks and screened porches and remodeling kitchens and bathrooms. (Those are my own words for List Two).

The owner of the company, when asked to describe the product in his own words, said:

“We provide decking, siding and window replacement, and interior remodeling.”

Seeds most important to the client (based on the above description and the keywords he mentioned) are decking, siding, windows and interior remodeling. This would be List One above.

Seeds that aren’t relevant (List Three above) are things the client prefers not to do or sub-contracts out, such as roofing (says he can never do it as cheaply as professional roofers), plumbing (he hates it) and highly specialized design work like tile inlays. He’s also not a licensed electrician. So these are keyword seeds to avoid.

Example of Keyword Seed Lists

List One

List One is based on jargon, and requires further research. The first thing I do with keywords like this is to look at competitors’ websites. I’ve gotten a list of competitors from the client that I’ll research, and I’ll also put these terms into Google or Bing and look at the sites that come up in the results (I’ll localize to Raleigh, NC so that I’m getting the most accurate set of competitors).

Reviewing these sites will give me more seeds to research based on that jargon. In this case, I found specific types of decking, such as composite and pressure-treated, and I found that many competitors also refer to screened porches as sunrooms or patios (which are slightly different, but may cover more potential customers).

One additional thing the client told me is that customers often aren’t sure of what they want until they call him in for an estimate, so I’m keeping this in mind. Also during my research, I found another competitor in search that wasn’t mentioned as a major competitor. I’ll put this on a list of things to ask the client about in our next meeting.

Example of List One Expansion based on Competitors research

 

Next, I’ll look at how customers are actually referring to the different products and services.

I’ll use the “related searches” area at the bottom of Google’s SERPs, Google Insights to look at trends, and the “Discussions” search option (click “More” under “Search” on the left side of a Google SERP page).

Based on what I found here, I’ve learned that many people are asking what the differences are between screened porches and sunrooms, as well as that they’re sometimes referred to as lanais or three-season porches. I’ll add these seeds to my research.

I also learned that many people are interested in enclosing an existing deck into a screened porch, or “winterizing” a screened porch. More seeds for my research.

To review, I’ve taken the keyword seeds [screened porch], [patio], and [sunroom] and added:

enclosing deck winterizing porch lanai three-season porch

These are all things that my client’s customers are looking for that his competitors aren’t servicing. They should be easy wins.

Example of List Two expansion based on Google "Discussions"

List Two

I can research List Two in much the same way I did List One. I’ll add these seeds to the research as well.

List Three

List Three is a little different from the others. I won’t add these as seeds to my research, but I will save them for the elimination and refinement process later.

This is where instinct and experience becomes particularly useful, as it’s likely that I can take any list of keywords to avoid and expand it on instinct.

For example, based on what I know of this client, he already wants to avoid roofing, plumbing, tile, and electrical. But here are a few more statements I jotted down at our meeting that give me more clues:

“I’m not the best priced contractor out there, because I don’t hire any undocumented workers and I pay my taxes. But I am very experienced and my clients are always happy with my work.”

Now I know I need to avoid [cheap], [free], [low-cost], [best priced], and other keywords like that. [Quality], [experience] and [ethical] are possible modifiers that are allowed.

“I prefer to work with composite materials rather than pressure-treated lumber for decks. It’s much higher quality and creates a nicer finished product.”

So it’s a good idea to focus on any searches asking for the differences between those materials. Also I’ll probably weight the research more heavily to different types and brands of composite materials.

Another note I’m jotting down from this statement is to suggest the client create a page that discusses the pros and cons of composite vs. pressure-treated materials.

“A lot of customers get a quote from a company like SEARS home improvement when they’re thinking about doing a remodeling project. This makes it tough for me because the materials that SEARS uses are limited to less-expensive ones. It helps me a lot if I can get a sense of a client’s budget beforehand; a single project can vary by thousands of dollars depending on the materials used. But of course, nicer materials create a nicer finished project.”

I’m not exactly sure what I could take from this, but there are likely to be a lot of keywords related to home improvement and/or SEARS.

I’ll be careful of those keywords and use something like Google Insights to determine if those trend higher at a certain time of year. I might even put them into a tool like ComScore to see if I can determine if people who search for [home improvement] related terms are in a lower income bracket. Of course, I also know I’ll have to avoid any keywords having to do with the television program of the same name.

Example of expansion of List Three based on notes from the client meeting

This is just the tip of the iceberg for keyword research. The proverbial “rabbit hole” can get very deep sometimes, so it’s important to make good decisions about which keywords to expand and which to keep at surface level.

I’m sure at this point, you’re wondering why I haven’t mentioned Google’s Keyword Frequency Tool. Researching search frequency can be very useful, especially in determining how far to expand a certain keyword seed. For example, I found almost immediately that [lanai] has very low search frequency. So I didn’t spend a lot of time on it.

Conversely, I found that [enclosing deck] is actually quite large, especially when viewed through Google Insights in the spring and summer months, localized to North Carolina.

Ultimately, I’ll put all of these keyword seeds into the Google Keyword Tool to find the most highly searched combinations of keywords and an overall estimate of the search frequency of one service (decks) over another (window replacement). This will help me guide the client on what content should be created for the website.

I prefer to do most of the research in the manner discussed above, and then use search frequency to refine, categorize and prioritize it. I have certain tools and formulas that I use to do that. Next time, I’ll give you these tools and explain how to refine what you’ve found and present it to your client.

Thanks to Artisan Construction for allowing me to use them as an example.

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

Related Topics: How To: SEO | Keywords & Content | SEM Tools: Keyword Research

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Sinking footings and porches detaching from buildings are among township officials' concerns at River's Edge.

Tom Perkins | For Ann Arbor.com

The Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees on Monday approved taking legal action against the owner and receiver of a troubled townhome complex.

Officials say both parties are ignoring township requests to address and reverse "deteriorating" conditions at the 162-unit River’s Edge Townhome complex, and, at their Feb. 13 meeting, the board unanimously approved giving staff authority to proceed with litigation.

The property is located on Villa Drive near the intersection of LeForge and Clark Roads.

Attorney Doug Winters told the board he had contacted the property’s mortgage holder, Citizen’s Bank, and the receiver charged with its maintenance and upkeep.

Attorneys representing Citizen’s Bank contacted the township when officials were initially attempting to figure out River’s Edge’s ownership situation, but failed to commit to a meeting to discuss resolving the issues, Winters said.

Without that meeting, he recommended the board approve court action as the next step.

“At least when the board authorizes legal action it gets them talking and maybe they will now come to the meeting,” Supervisor Brenda Stumbo said.

The township has issued two notices of violations to the property’s past owners and current management dating back to May 1. They allege a long list of problems and concerns. Among them are:

Deteriorating and leaking roofs. Leaking windows. Missing siding. Missing trim. Deteriorating porches that are separating from the buildings. Sinking footings. Overflowing Dumpsters.

“From what we can tell, nothing has been done at all to address the township’s NOV’s,” Winters said. “We have a lot going on over there and it’s not going to take care of itself by being ignored.”

Citizen’s Bank took control of the property after the company’s last owner, Next Door Apartments - Villa Drive LLC, defaulted on the mortgage in early 2011. A Washtenaw County Circuit Court judge appointed Farmington Hills-based Finsilver/Friedman Management Corporation as the property’s receiver on June 1, and Finsilver/Friedman is now responsible for River’s Edge maintenance and financial management.

Winters said the complex appears to have a high occupancy rate and questioned why tenants’ rent money isn’t going toward repairs. He said the items listed in the NOV are generally maintenance items but “important maintenance items” and he expressed particular concern over the sinking footings and porches detaching from the buildings.

Next Door's mortgage dates back to 2007 in the amount of $5.6 million and records show it owes more than $307,000 in back taxes on the property.

Finsilver/Friedman can either manage the property until the debt to Citizen’s Bank is paid off or sell the complex.

“Staff, as well as our office, reached out in an effort to bring all the parties to the table to work out an agreeable timeline and an agreeable manner for proceeding, but if this is going to be difficult, then we are prepared to move forward as we have in the past,” Winters said.

It’s one of several large cases the township is currently juggling. Staff has taken the first steps in the demolition process of the abandoned Liberty Square complex on Grove Road.

A court recently ordered the owner of the partially abandoned Greenbriar Mobile Home Park to remove 14 mobile homes. Officials also recently learned of two more troubled mobile home parks on E. Michigan Ave. and Harris Road, which Winters described as “landfills” and has moved to the top of staff’s priority list.

River's Edge is one of several problematic apartment complexes in the area. Neighboring Eastern Highland's ownership situation between jailed landlord David Kircher and Barnes and Barnes is in legal limbo. That has left several large buildings neighboring River's Edge vacant, though township building Inspector Ron Fulton said they are secure and safe.

Across the street, Huron View Apartments, which is in the city of Ypsilanti, was hit with a rash of burglaries last year and management had refused requests by tenants for extra locks for protection.

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Should the city of Holland prevent home owners from reducing the number of windows on the front of a home?

Some Realtors in the area have come together to say no.

In fact, they’ve likened the city’s proposed ordinances regulating exterior renovations of homes to a runaway train, said Dale Zahn, CEO of the West Michigan Lakeshore Association of Realtors

“The city may be going too far,” Zahn said, and people are expressing their concerns about that.

If you go
WHAT Holland Planning Commission public hearing
WHEN 5 p.m. today
WHERE council chambers, Holland City Hall, 270 S. River Ave.
ONLINE cityofholland.com

The Planning Commission discussed windows last month when the board learned of two homeowners on East 17th Street who had renovated enclosed front porches. City code enforcers were concerned by the remodels.

The two owner-occupied homes took what were three-season enclosed porches and reduced the number of windows, turning the rooms into extensions of the houses. Neither home appears to have a front porch now.

“A man’s home is his castle,” Zahn said, adding the homeowners in question didn’t do a bad job of renovating. “The homeowners bought the property and made the investment.”

There’s is no evidence that reducing the number of windows will bring down property values, he said.

The Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing today on the amendment to the zoning regulations that apply to certain “in-fill” districts within the city.

The proposed change is one piece of a more in-depth proposal that would allow the city to oversee many exterior renovations and modifications. Because that proposal met with opposition late last year from Realtors and homeowners concerned about personal property rights, it has been indefinitely tabled.

The amendment proposed now would require homeowners in the central city neighborhoods affected by in-fill rules to have changes to windows and doors reviewed. If approved, the rules would ban homeowners from reducing the number of windows.

Currently, the city doesn’t have the authority to do anything about windows and doors, Cindy Osman, assistant director of the Community and Neighborhood Services department, said in January.

The city’s responsibility is to “Keep (properties) safe, sound and sanitary and leave the rest up to the homeowner,” Zahn said.

Zahn questions the idea that a single member of city staff reviewing requests would know what is best for a neighborhood and should be the person to look at each home on case-by-case basis.

“What’s good looking and nice to one is not going to be to another,” he said.

Realtors are more in touch with what’s going on a city neighborhood and are better at marketing the city, Zahn said. The Realtors need the city, but the city needs the Realtors to promote and market the city also.

“It’s a two-way street,” he said.

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Building God's Way (BGW), a leader in church building and design, teams up with Texas Systems Integrations to offer high-tech, cost-effective audio, video, lighting and broadcast systems and equipment for churches seeking to expand or remodel their worship facilities. This new division, known as BGW Tech, will help churches enhance their stage presentations and live events through the use of cutting-edge sound and light technology while delivering significant savings to make it an affordable construction option.

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Church architect and builder BGW has always maintained a strict standard for using high quality supplies and materials in the construction of churches and Christian schools. Sustainable church design and church architecture are at the forefront of BGW's mission to construct buildings that appeal to younger generations while maintaining focus on stewardship of resources and ministry vision.

Most BGW facilities include sanctuaries or auditoriums equipped with professional stage lighting and sound systems, but as church audio-visual technology continues to sky-rocket, BGW has looked for creative ways to employ this new technology into worship facilities, yet keep it affordable to their clients. In response to this challenge, BGW has developed a division dedicated to supplying cost-effective, cutting-edge, audio-video technology to churches to enhance live stage presentations for the 21st Century audience who have come to expect state-of-the-art quality in light and sound.

BGW has teamed up with Jim Martin from Texas System Integrations (TSI), a leader in audio, video, lighting and broadcast solutions, to offer affordable, easy to operate systems and equipment to amplify, record, and display high-tech stage lighting, sound, and images that will rival any Hollywood set. The newly formed BGW Tech will support the reduction of energy consumption through the use of innovative, energy efficient, green products such as digital audio and LED lighting.

Members of TSI and BGW are excited about this new division and look forward to working together to help ministries take advantage of the many resources available to help grow God's Kingdom in ways they never thought possible. The new partnership will allow BGW architects to integrate strategies for audio, video, lighting and broadcast technology from the earliest stages of design, reducing costly change orders and delays during the church construction process.

About Building God’s Way - With a portfolio of nearly 400 churches and 120 Christian schools and colleges nationwide, Building God's Way (“BGW”) has become a recognized leader in ministry design and construction. BGW has also developed an unparalleled network of kingdom building services that extend beyond just architecture and building and includes growth coaching, vision casting, capital fundraising, financing, leadership development and more. The mission of Building God’s Way is to build God’s Kingdom by translating the God-given ministry vision of Christian organizations through high-quality, cost-effective buildings and by demonstrating the love of Christ on the job site through the BGW Ministry of Construction program.

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MILLVILLE, Mass., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- David Richardson, owner of Berns Small Engine Repair, located at 7 Providence St., recently added U-Haul truck and trailer rentals to the automotive garage.

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Families needing the finest in moving services now will have increased convenience and a shorter distance to travel when moving, which not only will make their move easier but also will have the positive effect of reducing the amount of carbon emissions released into the atmosphere. U-Haul partnering with business owners across North America to increase convenience for customers while helping our environment is just one of the programs that support U-Haul Company's Corporate Sustainability initiatives.

Berns Small Engine Repair can now offer its customers a variety of moving equipment and supplies designed specifically for moving household furnishings, including moving vans, open trailers, closed trailers, furniture pads, appliance dollies, furniture dollies, tow dollies and auto transports. Berns Small Engine Repair also will offer sales items to protect their customers' belongings and make moving easier, such as heavy-duty boxes, which are made of up to 90 percent recycled content and are available in a variety of sizes.

"U-Haul is proud to be partnering with a quality independent business such as Berns Small Engine Repair," exclaimed James Blair, president, U-Haul Company of Western Massachusetts and Vermont. "David is a great example of the type of successful business relationship U?Haul has established in order to build and maintain a strong network of more than 15,000 independent dealers across North America."

For more information, or to rent your moving equipment today, call 774-481-7407. Business hours of operation are: Mon. – Fri. 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. and Sat. 8 a.m. – Noon.

About U-Haul
U-Haul was founded by a Navy veteran who grew up during the Great Depression. Tires and gas were still rationed or in short supply during the late 1940s when U-Haul began serving U.S. customers. Today, that background is central to the U-Haul Sustainability Program: "Serving the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."  Our commitment to reduce, reuse and recycle includes fuel-efficient moving vans, neighborhood proximity, moving box reuse, moving pads made from discarded material and packing peanuts that are 100% biodegradable.  Learn more about these facts and others at uhaul.com/sustainability.

Since 1945, U-Haul has been the choice for the do-it-yourself mover. U-Haul customers' patronage has enabled the Company to maintain the largest rental fleet in the do-it-yourself moving industry which includes trucks, trailers and towing devices. U-Haul also offers storage throughout North America. The Company provides industry leading moving and storage boxes and an extended line of packing supplies to protect customer possessions. U-Haul is the consumer's number one choice as the largest installer of permanent trailer hitches in the automotive aftermarket. The Company supplies alternative-fuel for vehicles and backyard grills as one of the nation's largest retailers of propane.

Contact:
Joanne Fried
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U-Haul Public Relations
(602) 263-6194
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