As her family’s new Albemarle County home was being built over the past two years, retired U.S. Air Force Capt. Jennifer Cui sought to incorporate as many environmentally friendly design elements as possible.
Along with her husband and two young children, Cui decided the custom-built house in Earlysville would include bamboo flooring harvested from responsibly managed [...]
Colwood, B.C. – A rezoning application in the town of Colwood has the potential to provide a complete makeover to this quiet Vancouver Island municipality. Victoria developers Turner Lane Developments are proposing a $1 billion project on 5.6 hectares that includes condominium towers, an assisted living complex, office towers, retail buildings and a fire hall. [...]
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 [...]
Emaar, The Economic City (Emaar.E.C), a Tadawul-listed company, has announced that work on King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC) is advancing as per schedule with construction ongoing on several key components.
‘As the first and largest Economic City in the Kingdom, KAEC sets the trend by creating a vibrant, mixed-use development that creates jobs in Saudi Arabia,’ [...]
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 [...]
Atkins has celebrated a world first, with the installation of the turbine blades onto Manama’s Bahrain World Trade Center towers. The installation of the 29 metre diameter turbine blades represents a culmination of over three years of intensive research and development by Atkins architects and engineers in association with Danish partners Ramboll and Norwin. The [...]
Beneath its dark netting and scaffold-covered exterior, the historic Sears building at 400 E. Fordham Rd. is undergoing drastic restructuring. The shopping center will re-emerge in the next 16 to 18 months as Fordham Place, the Bronx’s first mixed-use development in more than 15 years.
Last Thursday, real estate developers Acadia Realty Trust and P/A [...]
Synergy is the “cooperative interaction among groups that creates an enhanced combined effect,†according to the American Heritage Dictionary.
In the non-governmental and private report, “A Call to Action: A Blueprint for Our Region’s Future,†a lack of synergy among economic development programs was one of seven socioeconomic areas that the group found Cayuga County should [...]
A hiring spurt for waiters, dishwashers and business-service workers helped counteract the continuing slump in the construction industry last month, pushing employment higher in San Diego County and statewide, according to data released yesterday by the California Employment Development Department.
Statewide, employers added 27,600 workers to their payrolls in February after a 10,400-job loss in January. [...]
The nation’s construction industry is becoming increasingly staffed by Hispanics, with the biggest growth among workers who are undocumented, according to a new report.
New figures Wednesday from the Pew Hispanic Center show that overall construction employment nationwide rose 5 percent between 2005 and 2006. But the number of Hispanics employed in the industry rose 14.5 [...]
Skanska is selling the retail properties Stenalyckan 3 in Halmstad and Avtalet 13 in Lund, Sweden for SEK 155 M to Danish Ejendomsvaekst. The gain amounts to SEK 64 M and is being reported in the first quarter of 2007. The new property owner will take over ownership during the second quarter.
The Stenalyckan 3 property [...]
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 [...]