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Minnesota Vikings Stadium Moves a Big Step Closer to its New Home
After nearly a decade, Minnesota Vikings has finally come this far in their quest for a new stadium. Governer Mark Dayton and Vikings owners Mark and Zygi Wilf revealed plans for a new, $975 million stadium that would be built nearly on top of the Metrodome site in downtown Minneapolis.
Empire State Building – The Art Deco-Style Plans to ‘Go Public’
You might soon get a chance to grab a piece of Empire State Building, the art deco-style, 102-story skyscraper at the corner of 34th Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. The company that controls the Empire State Building is planning an initial public offering that could raise as much as $1 billion.
Social Media Tips for the Construction Industry
There are over 135 million users on LinkedIn, and despite it being the third largest social network, LinkedIn still seems like that social network in the corner that people forget is there. That’s why having a LinkedIn company page is so crucial. Have your sales team send prospective customers to the page to check out new products and services. Add status updates in a location that few others are doing so.
Commercial Buildings are Going Green
Going green has been a popular initiative for some time, but the commercial sector has been slow to pick up the trend. Only now are commercial buildings beginning to go green in a variety of ways, and are doing so for both financial and environmental benefits.
Industries Working to Bolster Civil Engineering Jobs
In the United States, the heavy and civil engineering sector added 3,700 hundred jobs in October. Although that is 50 percent than what the sector created at the same time a year ago, the heavy and civil engineering sector is still doing much better than most other sectors, such as specialty trade contracting, which lost over 22,000 jobs.
Global Construction Industry Will Remain Flat through 2012
The latest construction trade survey from the Construction Products Association in the United Kingdom reported that construction output to fall by1.1% in 2011 and 3.6% in 2012, with no return to growth until 2014. The reason for this is the drop in public sector investment spending, coupled with the inability of the private sector to pick up the slack. These numbers are particularly surprising as the country prepares for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Biggest Solar Bridge In The World: Construction Begins
In a thrilling bit of news, the latest in development merges with the latest in building and the latest in environmental reforms, as construction on the largest solar bridge in the world begins. Located in the heart of London, the Blackfriars Station is going to be the proud new site of the biggest solar panel [...]
Pionen: Swedish Atomic Bomb Shelter, Now Assange’s WikiLeaks HQ
This is the high security data centre where mysterious WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has chosen to store his millions of controversial data files. The Pionen White Mountains data centre, located 100ft below ground, deep within the bedrock, is the high-security Internet Service Provider company Bahnhof’s super server data centre. It is interesting enough that this [...]
UrbanTiles by Meidad Marzan Envisions Buildings As Zero-Energy Displays
Zero-energy, flexible light displays that project the city of tomorrow as being an array of buildings with a constantly changing, customizable display arena, UrbanTiles is a concept created by Israeli industrial designer, Meidad Marzan, for his graduation project at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. The concept involves the use of a matrix of [...]
Coromandel Engineering Company Ltd
Coromandel Engineering Company Ltd., established in 1947, is part of the $4 billion Murugappa Group. One of India’s oldest and most well-respected business houses, the company has pioneered several novel engineering techniques including being the first to introduce pre-engineered metal building systems in India. The Murugappa Group has holdings across a number of successful industries, [...]
Ahuja Group. Redefining Lifestyles.
Produced by Rachel Allen Started by Mr. Jagdish Ahuja over 25 years ago, Ahuja Constructions today is one of India’s leading building and construction companies. The Ahuja Group was recently awarded the title of creating the “Best High-rise Architecture in India” at the Asia Pacific Property Awards. For almost the last two decades, the Ahuja [...]
Kingdom Tower by Bin Laden Group will be the World’s Tallest Building
All set to overshadow Burj Khalifa, currently the world’s tallest building, Kingdom Tower will be built by the Bin Laden family in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, as the focal point of Kingdom City. Billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal’s investment firm Kingdom Holding Co., announced the $1 billion deal they have signed with the Saudi Bin Laden [...]
Living it UP: The Worlds Most Luxurious Penthouses
Earlier this year we featured the World’s Most Expensive Home, Antilla, Mumbai, which also figures as the world’s first-even billion-dollar home. With dense urban living becoming more of a reality than ever before, the obvious next question is : which are the world’s most luxurious (read: expensive) penthouses and how much do they cost ? [...]
New York City to Inaugurate 9/11 Memorial on 10th Anniversary
Symbolizing hope and renewal at every level of detail, the memorial that will be inaugurated at Ground Zero on September 11th 2011 is a physical translation of New Yorkers reflecting on and remembering the lives of those who were lost ten years ago. With two enormous waterfalls and reflecting pools, each about an acre in [...]
Solar Ivy: A Flexible Modular Solar Energy System that resembles Ivy
Having fast become recognized for the green consultancy they provide in conjunction with sustainable product development, SMIT has come out with a new solar energy system called Solar Ivy; leaf-like photovoltaic panels which use both the sun and the wind to generate electricity. Inspired by the ivy often seen on traditional mansions, Solar Ivy, developed [...]
Shapoorji Pallonji.
Delivering Global Icons Produced By Rachel Allen About a century and a half ago, a giant water reservoir was built on the famous Malabar Hills, in an Indian city then named Bombay – by a company called Littlewood Pallonji & Company. Over time, that company has grown to become the Shapoorji Pallonji Group of Companies, [...]
Citius, Altius, Fortius and now, Green Gen-Z Style, Fully Recyclable
The 2012 London Olympics Basketball Arena The reusable-recyclable Basketball stadium of the 2012 Olympics, unveiled last week, is the fourth Olympic Park venues completed a year in advance of the Olympics, and is being dubbed as one of the quickest venues to complete construction, according to the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) The London 2012 Olympics [...]
U.K Housing Slides. “Generation Rent” dawning on Britain?
According to data released by the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), the housing market in Britain is on a firm decline, with the monthly house price balance for May falling to minus-28 in May from minus-21 in April. This decline, as opposed to an expected betterment in figures to minus-20 for May, marks the [...]
World’s Largest Artificial Solar-Powered Floating Island: Viva,Seoul
With a 700 seat convention hall, restaurants and arcades, all powered by solar energy, Seoul has launched what is likely to become South Korea’s hot new tourist destination. Part of a group of three completely man-made islands, Viva, launched earlier this month demonstrates the Seoul Metropolitan Government’s commitment towards revitalizing recreational areas in a commercially [...]
