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  • Marvin names marketing exec

    Window and door manufacturer Marvin has promoted Brett Boyum to the position of VP marketing.

    Boyum has been with Marvin for nearly 15 years, most recently as director of marketing for both Marvin and its sister brand, Integrity Windows and Doors. He succeeds Tom Angelis, who is retiring.

    “As a key member of our marketing team, Brett has led the development and implementation of many of our most successful products and programs,” said Susan Marvin, president of Marvin Windows and Doors.

  • Critics of LEED rules gain new allies

    LEED v4, the proposed update to the nation’s most prevalent green building program, has been under intense pressure to change its current wood certification rating system, which only recognizes one set of standards, those of the Forest Stewardship Council. But the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which oversees the LEED program and its current revision process, is now under fire for another part of the LEED update that has nothing to do with wood.

  • Do it Best remodels Web site

    Upgrades include the addition of an enhanced “Ship-to-Store” service and a more neutral color palette....

  • Executive fallout at Home Depot

    Home Depot executives George Sherman and Mike Buskey have been removed from the company's Web...

  • In Hawaii, City Mill plans new store

    City Mill Co. plans to open a new store in Ewa Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, at the Laulani Village Shopping Center.

    As the second anchor store, City Mill will encompass 40,000 sq. ft. with a 5,000-sq.-ft. area for additional garden, lumber and building materials. The new store is expected to open in late 2012. It will be the company's ninth store.

  • Made in America, Sold in America

    Lehman’s Hardware is a classic throw-back of a hardware store housed in an 1840s-era barn...

  • Menards balks at 1% tax

    Menards is considering a new store in a Springfield, Mo., shopping mall -- as long as it isn’t included in the development’s community improvement district (CID), according to an article in the Springfield News Leader.

  • GreenExpo365.com turns on sustainable building materials

    GreenExpo365.com held a live Web event to showcase and educate its users about green building materials earlier this month. The website, dedicated year-round to the green building community, offered an array of resources at the live Web conference, targeted at anyone interested in sustainable building. 

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