Thousands of South Asian construction workers went on strike Sunday over harsh working conditions in the latest threat to a spectacular building boom already endangered by a falling currency and labor shortage.
While laborers have long complained about working conditions in this Gulf city known for its avant-garde skyscrapers, luxury dwellings and archipelagoes of artificial islands, [...]

Propelled by soaring orders from power plants to luxury condominiums, Hyundai Engineering & Construction is expected to post record overseas orders this year.
The country’s third-largest builder by total assets secured $3.4 billion worth of overseas orders at the end of September this year. The figure has already surpassed the company’s yearly target.
“Thanks to many orders [...]

THE construction of the P10-million three-storey Dumaguete City Health Care Building has already started.
According to City Administrator Dominador V. Dumalag Jr., the first two floors of the building will hopefully be completed by the middle of next year.
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An initial step toward granting homebuilder T.R. Hughes further building permits for construction projects in Fairview Heights was taken on Tuesday night.
The Fairview Heights Planning Committee voted unanimously to recommend that a hold on permit applications filed by the company be lifted.
The action comes two weeks after the entire City Council voted to deny further [...]

Shares in China Construction Bank climbed more than 5 percent on Thursday after Goldman Sachs raised its rating on the stock to buy from neutral, citing strong earnings growth.
By 0302 GMT, shares in one of the country’s four largest lenders had gained 5.6 percent to a record high of HK$7.74. For details on Goldman’s [...]

The Municipality of Yarmouth will proceed with plans to build a much debated and much-talked-about new office building at the site of the former Hebron School.
Council voted 4-2 at last Wednesday night’s regular meeting to accept the lowest tender of $4.89 million from Delmar Construction, the only local firm to bid on the project. With [...]

After about four more months of construction at the Pottsville Middle School, students and teachers are expected to get a little breathing room in their building, according to a representative of Van Horn Construction.
Superintendent Larry Dugger told The Courier after Thursday night’s monthly school board meeting that all three school expansion projects are on or [...]

Accelerated Building Concepts Corporation , a provider in the design, manufacturing, and construction services for modular and component building facilities utilizing concrete and steel and structural insulated panels (SIPs) structures, today announced the completion of the construction of an operations support building at the Orlando site of SeaWorld(r) Adventure Park owned by Busch Entertainment [...]

Vietnam, seeking to reduce its reliance on steel imports, has started construction of the country’s largest steel plant, an official said Thursday.
Construction of the $1.6 billion plant, located at the Dung Quat Economic Zone in central Quang Ngai province, is expected to be completed in three years, said Nguyen Van Phu of the zone’s management [...]

2007 will be a turning point for the International Exhibition for the Construction Industry. Over the last five years, it welcomed a total of 425 339 visitors, in an annual average of 85 067 in each edition. From now on, and starting with its 23rd edition which will take place at EXPONOR between the 23rd [...]

For the first time, baufach 2007 includes an industrial auction. It’s mainly construction equipment that comes under the hammer - a European premiere for the Leipzig Fair. Just six months before the event, the organisers Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, the world’s biggest holders of unreserved industrial auctions (auctions without reserve or minimum prices), have booked 50, [...]

Moscow’s 5th edition of Flooring Russia is a great example of how a successful ‘Live marketing event’ is a fast and efficient way to meet buyers. The show organisers have announced that this years Flooring Russia will be held once more at Expocentr in the heart of the city from 31st October to 2nd November [...]