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PETALING JAYA: Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy yesterday clarified the days on which heavy vehicles are banned from all roads during the festive season. Heavy vehicles are banned from public roads on Oct 20, 21, 28 and 29. The Government decided to ban the vehicles from the roads on Oct 29, instead of the earlier announced date of Oct 27, because more people are expected to return from their holidays on that Sunday. By banning the heavy vehicles on Oct 29, we hope it will ease the congestion caused by returning motorists, he said. He also said the ministry received appeals from groups such as the Pan Malaysia Lorry Association to allow heavy vehicles to travel on Oct 27. Timber lorries, lorries transporting construction materials, cement mixers, cranes and low loaders will not be allowed on the roads during the four days.
Builder Dan Tingen found out firsthand about the national housing slowdown when it took three tries this summer to sell a house in Wake Forest.The first miss came in July, when a couple moving to the area from Atlanta contracted to buy the $410,000 house, only to back out when their home in Georgia did not sell. Next, a couple moving from Northern Virginia put the house under contract. Same problem. "It was two bad experiences with three buyers to close one house," said Tingen, who finally found a buyer in late September.Tingen, the president of the Home Builders Association of Raleigh-Wake County, said that in his 26 years in business, he has had only a handful of customers back out. Other builders and brokers have had the same experience.Talk to anyone in the local housing industry and you'll hear how job growth and moderate interest rates have kept the Triangle housing market humming at a record pace since 2003.
Straw-bale construction at the Kungas' home, a vent tower at the Lunds' and direct access to the Rail Trail at the Chathams' house in Park City: These are just a few of the interesting details we observed during the recent Green Home Tour, which was billed as a showcase for environmentally wise building and materials.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GS AgriFuels Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSGF) today announced its execution of an agreement to acquire NextGen Fuel, Inc., a producer of modular continuous-flow, multi-feedstock biodiesel process equipment based on NextGen's patent-pending process intensification technology. Under the terms of the acquisition agreement, GS AgriFuels will acquire 100% of the stock of NextGen in return for about $20,000,000 in cash, about $2,000,000 of which is to be paid in line with increases in NextGen's sales. The closing of the acquisition is subject to GS AgriFuels' completion of financing and the agreement is terminable if the acquisition does not close on or before November 15, 2006. Process Intensification Technology NextGen's biodiesel process technology leverages innovative process intensification techniques to accelerate and enhance traditional biodiesel reaction kinetics, thus decreasing process time, reducing energy and raw material needs, and increasing product quality.
With winter closing in, Thomas Hughes knows that the banging hammers soon will be quieted at Habitat for Humanity construction sites. Volunteers won't be needed. Home building will pause until spring. For Mr. Hughes, 73, of Buffalo, Butler County, the break is not particularly welcome. "It gets boring," he said of the slow season. .
Nor was the “House of Vettii," a replica of an ancient Roman edifice now under construction in a Lawrence High School courtyard. For a couple of hours each week — and on some weekends — students are shoveling, hammering, drilling and painting their way to recreating elements of the famous home of a well-to-do resident of ancient Pompeii. Pompeii was destroyed in a volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. But in the late 19th century, homes such as the House of Vettii were uncovered, revealing the art and architecture of the era. The LHS courtyard project began about a year and a half ago, when the interior was painted. But more progress will come this year, including adding a small Roman-style granite pond, walkways, columns, fresco-like paintings and a stage portico for poetry recitations or small plays.
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