Posts Tagged ‘Central Asia’

China Architectural Engineering Appoints Former CFO as Interim Chief Financial Officer

China Architectural Engineering, Inc. (CAE) (NASDAQ:CAEI ), a leader in the design, engineering, fabrication and installation of high-end building envelope systems, today announced that Wang Xin, former CFO of the Company, has been appointed as the Company’s interim CFO, to replace Xin Yue Jasmine Geffner, who has decided to leave CAE for personal reasons, effective [...]

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 In General Contractors Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Construction Materials Sales Break Records In Uzbekistan

The volume of construction materials sales at the commodity exchange (UzEX) is constantly rising, which is the results of the increase in the volume of construction works being carried out in the country and the Central Asian region as a whole. At the same time the sales dynamics for the year are also demonstrating a [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008 In Building Construction, Construction Machinery, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Dzhalal Kadiyev: architect behind Grozny’s rise from the ashes

The Kadiyev family have long been builders in Chechnya, but no one has had a job quite like that facing architect Dzhalal Kadiyev: reconstructing the entire city of Grozny from the ashes of war.
Kadiyev, a small, bird-like man sporting large spectacles, is unfazed by the task ahead of him and often draws inspiration from [...]

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 In Architecture, Building Construction, General News Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Medieval Islamic architecture presages 20th century mathematics - 2007-02-25

Intricate decorative tilework found in medieval architecture across the Islamic world appears to exhibit advanced decagonal quasicrystal geometry - a concept discovered by Western mathematicians and physicists only in the 1970s and 1980s. If so, medieval Islamic application of this geometry would predate Western mastery by at least half a millennium.
The finding, by Peter J. [...]

Sunday, February 25th, 2007 In Architecture Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,