Prysmian Cables & Systems, a world player in the energy and telecommunication cables market, will be playing a major role at next week’s 5th Annual Conference of the FTTH Council Europe to be held in Paris on February 27th & 28th.
As a main sponsor of the event, Prysmian will be exhibiting the latest additions to [...]
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 [...]
The 49ers may again be in the market for a new home. After burning most of their bridges with San Francisco and then annoying Santa Clara with demands, the 49ers are stirring up memories of 1997’s failed stadium plan.
What the team needs is a new location, and we have one in mind: the Concord Naval [...]
As a professional interior designer with Birmingham-based Maddalena Design, Sally Matak spends her days in a swirl of color, pattern and textures. So, when she heads home, it’s to a purposely serene and simple space where she can relax and refuel.
The 30-something Matak, who grew up in a “teeny, tiny town in Ontario two hours [...]
Could it be that we’re entering a golden age in concert hall design?
The very idea may sound a little crazy, given how adamantly some people insist that the audience for classical music is slowly dying off.
To those skeptics the current explosion of new concert spaces may seem nothing but a last-ditch attempt to attract younger [...]
Riffa Views Signature Estates today held a ground breaking ceremony to announce the beginning of construction on the second of its Signature Estates, The Lagoons.
The contract was awarded to GPZ-Sembawang, a joint venture between local contractor GPZ and Singaporean engineering and construction giant Sembawang. The Lagoons Estate will comprise 258 two and three bedroom [...]
Czech construction companies signed 17,163 new orders in the first quarter, a year-on-year increase of 4.9 percent, but their aggregate value dropped by 13 percent on the year to Kc49.5bn, the Czech Statistical Office (CSU) said today.
The average construction order concluded in the first quarter was worth Kc2.9m, a year-on-year decline of 17 percent.
The largest [...]
Speaking at this week’s 11th Annual East Coast Gaming Congress, Kevin DeSanctis, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Revel Entertainment Group, announced that Arquitectonica has been named the design architect, BLT Architects has been named Executive Architect and Architect of Record and SOSH Architects has been named Associate Architect for the Company’s Atlantic City resort [...]
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 [...]
Bouygues Immobilier reported another year of market-beating growth in residential property reservations. The outperformance is attributable to growth in value terms, with a 33% increase in 2006 to €1,793 million, compared with €1,350 million in 2005; and volume growth, with 10,852 units reserved, a 32% increase, including 643 units in Europe. Reservations outside greater Paris [...]
In the 2006 financial year Strabag AG, Cologne, has continued to focus on road construction, the core competence. The company was able to achieve a considerable increase in both output and order intake despite sale of the Building and Civil Engineering Segment to Ed. Züblin AG, Stuttgart. In the year under review orders received by [...]
Poyry’s Infrastructure & Environment business group has been awarded two important projects related to urban environmental engineering. The total value of the contracts is EUR 2.5 million. The municipality of the City of Brno, the Czech Republic, has assigned Poyry for planning the general arrangement of the dewatering system. Poyry’s assignment comprises hydraulic calculations of [...]