CONSTRUCTION.COM ENTERS INTO ALLIANCES TO EXPAND CONTENT.Construction.com (New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ), a unit of F.W. Dodge, McGraw-Hill's Construction Information Group, has formed strategic alliances with Ironmax, Inc. (Louisville, KY) and Industrial Information Resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. (IIR IIR - Infinite Impulse Response ; Houston, TX) to expand its content and its tools for the procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. and management of construction equipment. Under terms of the first deal, Ironmax becomes a provider of construction equipment content, applications and services for construction.com, including reference guides and the "Request for-Quote" transaction mechanism for buyers, sellers, users, service providers and manufacturers of construction equipment. McGraw-Hill executive Norbert Young, Jr. said that "construction.com has already established itself as the premier Internet portal for learning about and procuring construction projects and products." With the Ironmax deal, "we can now include equipment to that list." Construction.com has also teamed with IIR to issue monthly industrial building news reports. IIR is the producer of "The PEC Peć (pĕch), Albanian Peja, town (1991 pop. 68,163), S Serbia, in the Kosovo region. A trade center, it has industries that produce leather goods, foodstuffs, and handicrafts. Report" on industrial and energy-related construction, and industrialinfo.com, a provider of market intelligence information covering the industrial and energy-related sectors. Construction.com offers content and services through F.W. Dodge, which includes data on more than 500,000 construction projects, Sweet's, a project resource for architects and design professionals, and through McGraw-Hill's related magazines, including Engineering News-Record Engineering News-Record (widely known as ENR) is a weekly magazine that provides news, analysis, data and opinion for the construction industry worldwide. It has been published since 1874. It is owned by The McGraw-Hill Companies. , Architectural Record and DesignBuild. |
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