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 It’s three o’clock in the morning, and after tossing and turning through a stormy night, Mr. Bright, the director of facilities for the headquarters of a high profile federal agency, had finally passed into deep sleep.  

The Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks in Bethlehem, Pa., is the latest outdoor band shell partially sponsored by the Mortimer Levitt Foundation, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit. 

Under tough economic pressures and uncertainty, it is imperative for property owners and managers to spend their monies wisely and manage their facilities assets properly.

 In 2008, the Boston Harbor Island Alliance and National Park Service held a competition for a visitor information pavilion for the Boston Harbor Islands, a national park composed of 38 islands that are accessible by ferryboat from the Boston waterfront.  

 Boston is undergoing a renaissance of sorts.  

Long after the 2012 Summer Olympics have ended, the buildings constructed for the event will still be in use. 

Solar panels and cool roofs are a natural integration of sustainable technologies that can increase the output of a photovoltaic system by as much as 10 percent. 

 Air barriers have recently been identified as one of several effective and viable solutions toward better high-performance buildings.  

Any employer who has faced potential class-action wage-and-hour lawsuits knows what a headache they can be. 

With the housing market on what appears to be a slow path toward improvement, the growth potential for roofing contractors in the coming year will be largely dependant upon reroofing projects and add-on services.