I recently attended the National Lumber & Building Materials Dealers Association (NLBMDA) and National Building Materials Distributors Association (NBMDA) Legislative Conference and Green Building Forum in Washington, DC, and wow that’s a mouthful. The focus of this first-ever joint conference and legislative event was to allow members to learn about green building and find common [...]
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With the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (‘the Act’), signed into law on February 17, the federal government is making an effort to re-invigorate our economy and improve our infrastructure. There are over $140 billion in infrastructure improvements covering a wide range of projects: three general categories should be very interesting to green building material [...] Wow what a ride the last six months has been for any business in North America but especially in the building materials distribution and retail sector. First the housing bubble popped, then all of the credit evaporated, and now the forecast looks rather hazy for 2009. A possible bright spot in 2009 will [...] | ||||||