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For immediate release: DriTac Flooring Products introduces DriTac Eco-5500 Premium "Green" Pressure Sensitive Flooring Adhesive, which is ideal for installing Luxury Vinyl Tile, Luxury Vinyl Plank, VCT, Fiberglass Back Sheet Vinyl, Carpet Tile, Vinyl Stair Treads, Cork Tile and Cork Underlayment. DriTac Eco-5500 is a "green" adhesive that is VOC free with zero solvents.

Manufactured in the USA, DriTac Eco-5500 is extremely easy to spread and clean up, offers a very low odor and is nonflammable. DriTac Eco-5500 is an eco-friendly adhesive that provides excellent working time and superior coverage. It is available in 1 and 4-gallon plastic pails.

DriTac Eco-5500 is acceptable for use with on, above, or below-grade concrete substrate applications, in the absence of excessive moisture and alkalinity. Below-grade concrete substrate applications must be recommended by the flooring manufacturer. Additionally, the adhesive may be used over plywood, terrazzo, particleboard, hardboard, OSB, existing vinyl tile flooring, existing fully adhered non-cushioned sheet vinyl and properly prepared lightweight concrete.

DriTac Flooring Products, LLC is celebrating over 55 years as one of the oldest and most experienced manufacturers of environmentally friendly flooring adhesives in the market today. DriTac adhesives are available from coast to coast through more than 100 distributors and in warehouses including: Clifton, N.J., Dalton, Ga., City of Commerce, Calif. and Dallas, Texas. For more information, or to receive a complete products guide for all of DriTac's adhesives and installation products for flooring, contact: John Lio, 60 Webro Road Clifton, N.J. 07012; Ph: 800-394-9310 ext. 243; e-mail: jlio@DriTac.com; or Web: http://www.DriTac.com.

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PEACHTREE CITY, Ga., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, announced that its Halo brand of recessed, track and surface lighting products has once again been named the Brand Leader in lighting by Builder magazine. Awarded for the fourteenth consecutive year, Halo was given top honors in the lighting categories of Brand Familiarity, Brand Used in Past Two Years and Brand Used Most. The company will be featured in Builder's April issue.

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"We are once again proud and honored that the builder community has chosen Halo as their number one choice for lighting products," says Mark Eubanks, President, Cooper Lighting. "We are constantly working to understand our customers' business goals and to develop innovative products that meet and satisfy their needs. Cooper Lighting has and will continue to adopt and adapt to the latest advancements in lighting technology to provide the most innovative, high-quality, high-performing lighting products available."

Cooper Lighting, which developed the first ENERGY STAR-qualified LED recessed downlight, offers a comprehensive selection of LED products to meet the challenging needs of builders in today's marketplace. The company opened a world-class 60,000 square-foot LED Innovation Center in 2009 to design, test and manufacture reliable LED products. As legislation requires lighting products to advance beyond the incandescent options used today, Cooper aims to help builders adhere to the changing energy landscape with industry-leading technology, variety and service.

The 2012 Brand Use Study, sponsored by Hanley Wood, LLC, publisher of Builder, and conducted by the independent research company Readex Research, provides an in-depth look at the product brands builders recognize and use most and how they rate quality. The report highlights respondents' opinions about brands in 80 product categories. The 2012 Brand Use Study can be viewed on the Builder website at http://www.builderonline.com in April.

Cooper Lighting has made a significant investment in people, resources and technology to ensure the company provides first-class solutions to its customers' lighting challenges. The company offers a range of indoor and outdoor LED lighting products and controls, all of which are specifically designed to maximize energy and cost savings. For additional information on Cooper's LED product offering, click here.

About Cooper Lighting

Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE - News), is the leading provider of innovative, high quality interior and exterior lighting fixtures and related products to worldwide commercial, industrial, retail, institutional, residential and utility markets. As lighting technologies have advanced over the years, Cooper Lighting has been at the forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage the latest technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. For more information, visit http://www.cooperlighting.com.

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Jim Christianson | 3/20/2012 From restaurants to multi-million dollar sports arenas, one architectural firm is in the midst of designing several new projects. And JLG Architects are hoping to bring in some more help to handle the workload.

Sitting in his Main Avenue conference room with a wall full of mockups and architectural renderings, Jeff Hysjulien and his staff are in the midst of some exciting building plans, including a new downtown night spot.

"And it`s kind of starting to get some new energy, and some new growth. Part of that is kind of creating an after five o`clock environment," Hysjulien said.

Since 1989, JLG Architects has been designing hundreds of projects of all shapes and sizes, including both residential and commercial buildings throughout the upper Midwest. And they have to stay on top of the technological changes in both the construction and the design business.

"With the pace of the construction industry, everything happens, the design and planning side is a very boiled down and consolidated process."

The firm is working on a number of local projects for the summer, including expanding the Bismarck Community Bowl and designing a new JL Beers location on 3rd street in downtown Bismarck. All of the projects are challenging, but also rewarding.

"The adaptive reuse, taking an old building and giving it new purpose, and the JL Beers project is an example of that, from an architectural perspective, they`re a lot of fun."

To accomplish the workload, JLG is doubling the size of its Bismarck office. They recently expanded into Minot and will soon be opening a seventh branch in Williston.

"We really strive for the fact that the site of the building and stuff really work well together, it`s a very integrated process."

An integrated process indeed. And a high-tech process that incorporates environmentally friendly building materials into eye-catching designs that are built to last.

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Mackey Mitchell Architects said today it will leave its long-time home near Union Station and move late this year to a renovated Cupples Station building a block west of Busch Stadium.

The firm, founded in 1968 by Gene Mackey, plans to lease 11,000 square feet of fifth-floor space at Cupples 9, which is under renovation by an affiliate of the Koman Group. For 24 years, Mackey Mitchell has been at the Power House, a building it designed. The company said it hopes to relocate by Dec. 1.

TKG Acquisitions LLC, a Koman affiliate, bought the vacant Cupples 9 building out of foreclosure on May 26. Koman says its$30 million rehab of the 117-year-old building should be completed in early 2013. The building is next to the Westin Hotel at Cupples Station, made up of old warehouses in six blocks west of Busch Stadium. Other buildings in the century-old complex have been redone as offices, restaurants, condos and apartments.

In addition to Mackey Mitchell, a tenant of Cupples 9 is to be Osborn & Barr, a communications company thatwill occupy 45 percent of building. Osborn & Barr plans to move from another Cupples Station building on Spruce Street.

The two relocations will fill most of what is now an empty downtown building. But the moves do little to boost overall occupancy downtown.

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Epping House N Home, a bulky goods centre with a difference will be a feature of Northpoint Enterprise Park.

Legislative changes are helping bulky goods outlets, writes Philip Hopkins.

A BULKY goods centre to be built at Epping in Melbourne's north has been given a fillip by recent Baillieu government planning changes.

Private developer, the McMullin Group, will build the centre, dubbed Epping House N Home, in the Northpoint Enterprise Park, a 120-hectare estate in the commercial and industrial heart of the City of Whittlesea.

McMullin's development director John Purdey said the centre would tap into Whittlesea's forecast population growth of 10,000 new residents per year for the next six years. Epping's catchment is now estimated at 209,000.

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The centre will be located on the corner of Edgars Road and Cooper Street, about 1.5 kilometres from High Street and Epping Plaza.

The establishment of the bulky goods centre was given a shot in the arm by amendments to retailing legislation by Minister for Planning Matthew Guy.

The policy changes revised the bulky goods definition, broadening the scope of retail activities that could be included in such centres. Further, the previously restrictive minimum floor space requirement of 1000 square metres was dissolved.

Jones Lang LaSalle's director of retail leasing Jaycen Willox said the move brought flexibility and clarity to both current and prospective tenants. ''Restrictive minimum floor space requirements under the previous scheme were thwarting the capacity of growth within the bulky goods sector,'' he said.

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NEW ORLEANS -- After sitting vacant for years, crews began construction Tuesday on a big, new development in the heart of Mid-City.

So far, the developer has leased the space to a mix of retail and restaurants, and it borders plans for the Lafitte Greenway.

The property at the intersection of North Carrollton Ave. and Bienville Street is one of the hottest pieces of commercial real estate in New Orleans, and a $38 million new development is breathing life back into the once-sleepy site.

I think it's gonna be a big opportunity to really anchor this commercial area on Carrollton Avenue for Mid-City. It's gonna be a hub of activity, said Townsend Underhill, vice president of Stirling Properties.

It's the site of an old Ford dealership, and thats one of the reasons it's taken years to get it re-developed. The land had more than 10 gas tanks underground.

This was an environmentally contaminated site. So, before we could do anything we had to clean up the environmental contamination. So, that was a risk, Underhill said.

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The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved plans Tuesday to convert parking lots into apartments and senior housingat the Marina del Rey harbor.

The plan calls for changing the zoning of two parking lots into housing - a 526-unit apartment complex and a 114-unit senior citizens facility, which will include 3,500 square feet of retail space, said Michael Tripp, planning specialist for the county Department of Beaches and Harbors.

The plans also will reduce docking spaces in the harbor for boats to accommodate the construction of space for larger boats and to comply with standards on wider docks to meet the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act, Tripp said.

There will be about 9% fewer wet boating slips, from 4,761 to 4,349. But the number of dry slips will rise from 817 to 1,114. Overall, the total number of boat slips will decrease by about 2%.

The countys strategy of redeveloping Marina del Rey, led by Supervisor Don Knabe, has drawnstrong criticism from a group of residents, who argue the county is moving the marina away from being dedicated to public recreation.

Bruce Russell, a consistent critic of the countys marina plans, told the supervisors Tuesday that the marina was not built for the several thousand well-heeled apartment dwellers the county wants to shove in there. It was built for the 10 million residents of the county, and they need and deserve their public park and public access parking."

County officials, however, assert that the marina is aging and needs to be revitalized. The marina is also a valuable piece of property whose lease revenues help fund the county budget.

In addition to adding these housing units, were also adding 10 acres of open space, Tripp said. The marina was built in the 1960s, and many of these buildings are getting old. Theyre past their prime." He added: Housing in West Los Angeles is in short supply.

Tripp said the plans approved Tuesday also permit the construction of a 1.46-acre wetland park on Via Marina, will expand Burton Chace Park, and convert a parking lot and trailer lot that houses county workers into a dry-dock warehouse where boats can be stored.

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BALTIMORE, MD--(Marketwire -03/20/12)- Williams Scotsman, a leading provider of modular space and storage solutions in North America, today announced the opening of Atlanta South, its third branch in Georgia.

"Based on a variety of factors including industry analysis and customer surveys, we realized our southeast customers would greatly benefit from another full-service Williams Scotsman branch," said Joseph Vecchiolla, senior vice president of US Field Operations for Williams Scotsman. "There is great demand for our products and services in this area and our Atlanta South branch improves our proximity to many customers in the southern part of the city."

The Atlanta South branch is located at 8105 Williams Road in Palmetto, Ga. The branch officially opened on March 1 and allows Williams Scotsman to operate more efficiently, resulting in better support for its customers.

Williams Scotsman currently has more than 100 locations throughout the US and serves a diverse array of sectors.

About Williams Scotsman Williams Scotsman, an Algeco Scotsman company, offers space solutions for the construction, education, energy, industrial, commercial/retail, healthcare, and government markets, with operations in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Williams Scotsman serves customers' modular space and storage needs through a network of nearly 100 locations throughout North America. In addition to its core leasing business, the company manages and develops permanent modular structures. For more information visit http://www.willscot.com.

Algeco Scotsman is a leading global business services provider focused on modular space and storage solutions. Operating as Williams Scotsman in North America, Algeco in Continental Europe, Elliott in the United Kingdom and Eurobras in Brazil, the company and its affiliates manage a fleet of more than 320,000 units, with operations or affiliates in 37 countries including Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and United States. The company has a reputation for exceptional customer service, flexibility in meeting customer needs, innovative products and services, and efficient business operations. Algeco Scotsman's global scale and local market expertise enable it to provide exceptional value to its customers.

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News and Notes on Trends, New Projects and Construction In the Commercial Real Estate Development Pipeline Around the U.S.

Fort Lauderdale-based Stiles is developing a new apartment community in a joint venture with Prudential Real Estate Investors (PREI). Independently, Stiles owns and is redeveloping the commercial retail component, the adjacent University Shoppes.

The mixed-use project is located at the northwest quadrant of University Drive and I-595 in the Midtown area. Stiles President Doug Eagon estimates an average of 225 construction workers will work at the job site each month.

Completion of the residential community is expected by June 2013, and the completion date for the retail centers redevelopment is early 2014.

A Stiles partnership acquired the site several years ago, recognizing its potential as a cornerstone location in the city's vision for Midtown, Eagon said.

"We foresee continuing, strong demand for amenity-rich rental residences just steps away from shopping, dining, services and entertainment," he said. The partnership has obtained $40.6 million in construction financing from PNC Bank.

The residential component will be a gated apartment community on a 5.5-acre site, with two 12-story towers offering a total of 321 residences. Stiles Construction is building the residential complex, which is one of Broward Countys first multifamily rental communities designed to achieve Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification.

The commercial component will reconfigure and renovate the existing University Shoppes retail and office center to create a more appealing customer environment with easier access and improved traffic flow. Stiles Architectural Group designed the 65,000-square-foot renovation on a 9.5-acre site just north of the new apartment community.

Less than a year after starting construction, Excell has reached the vertical peak of its $750 million International Gem Tower in Manhattan's Diamond District.

Project team members from developer Extell, AECOMs Tishman Construction Corp., and architectural/engineering firms celebrated the topping out of the building on West 47th Street, expected to be completed by year-end.

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CHICAGO, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --New Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations originally announced in 2010 officially took effect on March 15. Property owners across the country will now be required to meet these expanded regulations for renovation or construction projects, or risk ADA compliance lawsuits. To help owners and operators avoid the potentially millions of dollars in legal fees and civil penalties, the Jones Lang LaSalle Project and Development Services group, together with LCM Architects, a leading national architecture and design firm specializing in ADA-friendly design, offers an ADA compliance platform. This construction management program assists owners in achieving ADA compliance and is particularly focused on the needs of multi-site property portfolios.

The Jones Lang LaSalle and LCM program combines LCM's comprehensive knowledge of the new requirements and the Jones Lang LaSalle network of more than 1,000 experienced construction management professionals. It addresses multi-site and campus ADA compliance through a program that includes amassing data about the facilities, and providing portfolio-wide construction management services. The platform enables project managers to share blueprints, documentation and best practices easily across multiple locations. For a retail or hotel chain with hundreds or thousands of similar locations, the ability to generate consistently accurate real-time status reporting for every location is critical to litigation avoidance.

"Compliance is good business. In addition to avoiding litigation, being proactive in enabling access for everyone builds a positive and welcoming brand image," says Kevin Hughes, vice president of Project and Development Services. "Jones Lang LaSalle has helped hundreds of companies across all product sectors to navigate these changes to ADA regulations and successfully minimize disruption to the operations of hotels, banks and retail environments while delivering cost savings."

In this video, Hughes gives an overview of multi-site construction project management, including an ADA compliance project the firm performed on behalf of a client with more than 5,000 sites.

What's New

The ADA is a complex law that has not previously had any major refinements since it was signed into law in 1990. In the past, charges of non-compliance have led to a number of lawsuits, which have led to fines and civil penalties when plaintiffs were successful.

Properties for which construction was completed before March 15, 2012 fall under the safe harbor provision and are considered to be in compliance as long as they meet the original standard. Conversely, projects for which renovation or construction is completed after the cut-off date will be required to comply with the new rules immediately.

Some of the significant changes to existing regulations include:

In commercial buildings, the ADA applies mainly to areas open to the public. In the past, ADA lawsuits have centered mainly on retail, restaurant and hospitality chains, since these are organizations with many locations that often share similar or identical designs. A non-compliance issue at one location is likely to be repeated at many locations, greatly magnifying the potential liability.

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