FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOUISVILLE, KY…December 20, 2000 – Construction Zone (www.c-z.com), the leader in product information management solutions for the $3.2 trillion global construction industry, today announced a licensing agreement to deliver its rich product data to Electrical Contractor Network (www.electrical-contractor.net), the online information source for the electrical trade industry.

As part of this licensing agreement, electrical-contractor.net users will be able to access Construction Zone’s dynamic product database and search engine to locate and compare building materials, view CAD drawings and specs, and contact manufacturers. c-z.com will provide the electrical-contractor.net web site with its standardized product information aggregated directly from manufacturers.

"This relationship augments the electrical-contractor.net site with relevant product data and gives Construction Zone manufacturers yet another market to promote their goods," said Pam Kleier, CEO of Construction Zone. "Site users gain valuable content and our manufacturers gain additional eyeballs."

This new product information will complement electrical-contractor.net’s searchable databases of Electrical Contractors and Wholesale Electrical Suppliers, which are the largest available on the Internet with over 70,000 listings, according to Bill Addiss, spokesman and founder of electrical-contractor.net.

"We are very excited about integrating the CZ product data search into our site – it’s a perfect companion to our Electrical Supplies Finder database," said Addiss. "Being able to locate product specifications quickly and comparing them is an important part of our business. We look forward to growing together with Construction Zone and its expanding database of product information."

More than 600 manufacturers currently market their product data through Construction Zone, including 3M, GE, Ingersoll-Rand, Leviton and Lithonia. c-z.com serves as a gateway to industry web sites, providing a highly cost-efficient means for manufacturers to deploy accurate, comprehensive product data.

c-z.com’s product data will be integrated with electrical-contractor.net within the next month. The partnership will extend the reach of c-z.com’s product data well beyond its current 35,000 registered users. Similar c-z.com licensing agreements with exchanges such as Struxicon.com, e-IDC.com, ABCpoint.com and TriSecSecurity.com expose manufacturers’ product data to tens of thousands of additional users.

Construction Zone brings value and innovation to the Internet by offering content management solutions to the construction industry. It is the only company in the industry providing suppliers with cost-efficient product data management solutions. Construction Zone’s extensive domain expertise and its leadership role in publishing cpXML standards for the industry provides manufacturers with accurate, consistent data aggregation and attribution services that link rich, intermediate and transactional level data. The company’s Product Data Manager allows manufacturers access to manage, edit, and deploy dynamic and accurate product data and documents – such as specifications and CAD – to a wide range of destination sites and platforms including object drawing and estimation tools, niche web sites and marketplaces. For more information, contact c-z.com at 1-800-985-9663 or visit its web site at www.c-z.com.