Residential and commercial construction both saw a lot of ink this week on Construction Dive.
The big interest-generator of the week in our news feed was Skanska's $55 million deal to build an unnamed client's headquarters someone in the Northeast. That was accompanied housing marketing progress and an original C-Dive list of green commercial building projects.
Check out links to those stories and more below:
- Skanska in $55 million deal to build someone's U.S. headquarters—Skanska's project is expected to be completed by next summer for the unnamed client.
- 8 green commercial building projects—Green design in commercial building is finding its way all over new structures. Construction Dive looks at eight project examples.
- Probe: Congressmen, Fannie and Freddie execs got sweet Countrywide loans—The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee says the mortgage-maker cut deals for influential officials through its "Friends of Angelo" program.
- Obama housing scorecard records housing gains—A scorecard kept by federal agencies shows some progress in home sales and owners' equity.
- Note to market: We're done with this housing collapse—Indicators point to the U.S. housing market's having finally begun to claw its way up from a bottom.
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