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Construction-zone assets sold to Mcgraw-Hill.


McGraw-Hill Cos.' (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
) Construction Information Group (CIG CIG Ceiling (height above ground level to base of clouds)
CIG Conference Intergouvernementale (French: Intergovermental Conference)
CIG Conservation Innovation Grants (USDA NRCS) 
) has acquired most of the assets of Construction-zone.com (c-z.com; New York) Web site for construction professionals. As per the agreement, CIG purchased only certain assets and has not assumed any of c-z.com's liability. No terms were given.

The acquired assets include 15 specialty areas (equipment, metals, concrete, masonry masonry: see brick; concrete; stonework; tile.
masonry

Craft of building in stone, brick, or block. By 4000 BC, Egypt had developed an elaborate cut-stone technique.
, etc.) that carry information on new products, product trends and new technologies. They will be integrated into CIG's construction. com's Building Product Center. CIG said that client product information will remain available to c-z.com's user database of over 100,000.

The site will be operated independently through the first quarter of 2002. CIG president Norbert Young said that, through the acquisition, "CIG will establish the most in-depth and powerful construction product database and search engine on the Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
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Title Annotation:Construction Information Group acquires assets of Construction-zone.com
Comment:Construction-zone assets sold to Mcgraw-Hill.(Construction Information Group acquires assets of Construction-zone.com)
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Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 31, 2002
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