The Faculty of Engineering at NUI, Galway is to offer a new full-time, four-year degree programme in Project and Construction Management starting in September 2007.
The honours BSc degree is being offered in response to the shortage of suitably qualified professionals across all sectors of the built environment following the enormous investment in physical [...]
MN1 will feature AJ Francel the CEO of Alternative Construction Technologies Corp., the operating division of the newly public Alternative Construction Company, Inc. (OTCBB: ACCY) in an exclusive audio interview on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, at 11:45 a.m. CDT. ACCY is a fast growing company with approximately $9 million in trailing 12-month revenues. Tune in [...]
BRACE yourselves for a massive construction boom in Yorkshire which will need more than 6,000 recruits into the industry each year.
That is the assessment of the just-published Construction Skills Network report – and it foresees major projects in York and North Yorkshire contributing heftily to the demand.
These include the proposed £500 million campus extension at [...]
The Construction Centre announced today that it fully supports the increasing role of women in the building industry and has committed to raising UK awareness through its website. It will list female Professionals and Tradeswomen in its directories alongside links to Trade Associations such as Women and Manual Trade (WAMT) and the National Association of [...]
McGraw-Hill Construction’s GreenSource, a publication devoted to sustainable design and construction, won the Jesse H. Neal Award for Best Start-Up Publication at the American Business Media’s annual Neal Awards event. McGraw-Hill Construction, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) , also received two awards for ENR.com (http://www.enr.com/), the website of Engineering News-Record. The website [...]
ISLAMABAD – Chairman Senate, Mohammedmian Soomro Saturday underlined that need for construction of cost effective quality houses in the country and observed that focus should be on providing quality units with all the modern civic facilities.
Addressing at the launching ceremony of “World Trade Centreâ€, a commercial complex bring constructed by Defence [...]
The construction industry is going through a period of extraordinary growth. At the same time, there is much discussion about the sugar industry and the significant land use.
As we stand at the threshold of this massive period of construction, we need to ask ourselves if we will create a worthwhile legacy. The changes to the [...]
February home sales in the region fell to their lowest level in four years, as real estate associations in both Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky reported double-digit declines Friday.
Home sales dropped 11.7 percent last month in the Southwest Ohio counties served by the Cincinnati Area Board of Realtors and 12.9 percent in the counties represented [...]
Boasting yesterday of The Bahamas’ healthy construction industry, Minister of Works and Immigration Bradley Roberts said Grand Bahama, Abaco, Exuma, Eleuthera and New Providence are experiencing a construction boom.
Roberts, in a communication to the House of Assembly, also stressed the significance of the construction trade for developing a country.
“The importance of the construction industry [...]
In its half yearly survey of public opinion on Dubai’s real estate sector, DSL Exhibitions – organizers of the Resale & Rental (R&R) Property Show, due to be held in Dubai on 13th and 14th April 2007 at Crowne Plaza Dubai – have found residents of the city uniformly concerned with the drastic drop in [...]
Construction of the new air terminal building at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport is set to begin early this spring.
The Winnipeg Airport Authority awarded the bid to the joint venture of EllisDon Construction/Man-Shield Construction. It will be responsible for construction of the new terminal building, upper level roadway, central utility building and utility tunnel. [...]
Demand for skilled labour in the UK construction industry is expected to grow in the next five years. ConstructionSkills, which deals in making sure that there are enough skilled construction works to meet the industry’s demands, says that 87,600 new skilled workers will be required each year between 2007 and 2011 in order to fill [...]