Brazil is still one of the world’s biggest producers of machinery and equipment. In the first six months of 2007 the sector recorded growth of 10% in revenues compared with the same period last year. This is the scenario setting the optimistic tone for the 27th International Machinery and Industrial Supplies Trade Fair, the most [...]
Light+Building – International Trade Fair for Architecture and Technology – will be held at an almost fully booked out Exhibition Centre (230,000 square metres (gross)) in Frankfurt am Main from 6 to 11 April 2008. In 18 exhibition halls, over 2,100 exhibitors, including all national and international market leaders, will show innovations and numerous energy-efficient [...]
The 12th International Exhibition on Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Manufacturing Equipment / The 12th International Exhibition on Furniture Accessories, Materials and Wood Products (also known as WMF 2008) will be staged at China International Exhibition Centre (CIEC), Beijing, P.R. China on March 7 – 10, 2008. The upcoming edition is the largest ever, in both [...]
Expo CTS and the Italian Ministry for the Environment invite operators from the hotel and hospitality sectors, together with their clients, to the Nemo Next Hotel, an exhibition-event on hospitality in the future, at Fiera Milano between 19 and 23 October 2007, as part of Host, the international trade fair on professional hospitality. A [...]
Derba-MIDROC Cement PLC has hired MIDROC Construction Ethiopia PLC for 260 million Br to undertake the construction of 42Km of road at the factory site in Derba, West Shoa Zone of the Oromia Regional State.
The contract was signed on April 19, 2007, at the Derba-MIDROC offices on Jomo Kenyata Avenue by Haile Assegdie, executive director [...]
British architect Lord Richard Rogers, acclaimed for his urban, socially minded and open designs including the airy Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, is the winner of the 2007 Pritzker Architecture Prize, it was announced Wednesday.
Rogers, 73, is the fourth British architect to receive the field’s top honor, founded in 1979 and sponsored by the family [...]
Dallas, TX – International Risk Management Institute, Inc. (IRMI), announced the inception of two new seminar series to debut this Spring: Construction Defect Risk Management and Insurance and Wrap-Ups: Avoiding the Pitfalls. Construction Defect Risk Management and Insurance is designed to help developers, contractors, and their insurance agents, brokers, and underwriters successfully manage construction defect [...]
Graphic designers from across Tennessee will gather in Chattanooga in January to compare their efforts.
The second Ten Show event, founded by the state’s chapters of design trade group AIGA, is a chance for designers to examine their peers’ work and to highlight local art in a growing industry, organizers said.
“We want to communicate to not [...]
Taking another step toward building the nation’s tallest skyscraper in Chicago, the project’s developer on Wednesday announced a design team that includes a veteran Chicago architectural firm and the structural engineers who helped shape the Malaysian twin towers that took the world’s tallest building title from Sears Tower.
The developer, Garret Kelleher, executive chairman of Dublin-based [...]
Supported by United Kingdom Trade & Investment, the British European Design Group makes its debut at Index Dubai 2006.
Ever since the overwhelmingly enthusiastic reception of ‘Visions of Beauty’ the inaugural British design exhibition in Dubai in April 2005, Dubai has been firmly put on British European Design Group’s agenda of ‘The place to be’. ‘Visions [...]
Award winning designer Erik Ulfers announced today the launch of an innovative creative venture specializing in experiential design, Clickspring Design, Inc.
Approaching every design project with a unique perspective and a common process, and with a commitment to creativity as its defining differentiation, Clickspring Design is bringing together an outstanding team of designers, architects, strategists, project [...]
The deadly Columbine High School shootings in 1999 changed the way architects design schools.
Now, in addition to the usual concerns about fire safety and natural light, architects and principals talk about visual distances, entrance security and video cameras.
Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, where Duane Morrison held six students hostage this week before fatally shooting [...]