October 2, 2006

Building Materials Holding Corporation, San Francisco, CA, a provider of construction services and building materials to professional residential builders and contractors, announced its subsidiary, SelectBuild Construction, has agreed to acquire Willis Roof Consulting Inc. Willis provides roofing services for high-volume production homebuilders in the greater Las Vegas, NV, market. For the 12 months ended June 30, […]

Construction spending in August was estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $1,200.7 billion, 0.3% above the revised July estimate of $1,196.8 billion. The August figure is 4.4% above the August 2005 estimate of $1,150.3 billion. During the first eight months of this year, construction spending amounted to $793.2 billion, 7.2% above the $739.9

The ERIKS group has agreed to acquire Turpen & Associates Inc in Tulsa, OK, a distributor of seals, bearings and industrial plastics.  With approximately 45 employees, Turpen has annual sales of $11 million and supplies its products directly to industrial manufacturers (OEM customers) in the oil and gas industry in Oklahoma and the surrounding states. Sales