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GCR - News - Two floating cranes collapse on houses in the Netherlands
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Website of the Chartered Institute of Building. GCR global construction review. Two floating cranes collapse on houses in the Netherlands. 4 August 2015 By Joe Quirke. Two cranes located on a pontoon on the River Rhine have collapsed into houses and shops. It is unclear how many people have been injured but at least one person. Has been taken to hospital. The cranes were lifting a steel section of the Juliana bridge in the central Dutch town of Alphen aan den Rijn when the accident happened.
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GCR - Trends - Sculpture captures violence of urban construction (or does it?)
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Website of the Chartered Institute of Building. GCR global construction review. Sculpture captures violence of urban construction (or does it? 30 July 2015 By GCR Staff. The experience of urban building work as distressing and disruptive finds unique expression this summer in Karlsruhe, Germany, where the city centre has been given over to art exhibits on the theme of construction. Ldquo;Many inhabitants experience construction sites as a strain, if not a catastrophe,” continues ZKM. Ldquo;The building p...
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GCR - News - Baha Mar builder, China’s CCA, lined up for new Jamaican parliament
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Website of the Chartered Institute of Building. GCR global construction review. Baha Mar builder, China’s CCA, lined up for new Jamaican parliament. 10 March 2017 By GCR Staff. The state-owned Chinese company that built the troubled $3.5bn Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas has been lined up to help build a new parliament for Jamaica. The Jamaican government signed a memorandum of understanding on 9 March. A subsidiary of state-owned China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), CCA’s other...
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GCR - News - Vinci and Parsons consortium wins $1.4bn Canadian bypass scheme
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Website of the Chartered Institute of Building. GCR global construction review. Vinci and Parsons consortium wins $1.4bn Canadian bypass scheme. 7 August 2015 By GCR Staff. Regina Bypass Partners has been awarded a PPP contract worth US$1.4bn for the completion and operation of a 61km highway around Regina, the capital of the province of Saskatchewan in Canada. Construction work will last about four years. Your chance to pick Scotland’s best building. Desalinating pipe and giant beach balloon proposed fo...
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GCR - - Heard the one about the man who delivered a piano to the Himalayas?
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Website of the Chartered Institute of Building. GCR global construction review. Heard the one about the man who delivered a piano to the Himalayas? 19 August 2016 By David Rogers. This led to a small-scale yet epic project to port the piano to its destination in the village of Lingshed: a settlement of 250 people who are isolated from the rest of the world by a circle of 5,800m-high mountains. It also led to the invention of a way of turning the Himalayas’ vast dumps of plastic waste into an ef...It was ...
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GCR - Innovation - Australia spends millions in quest for manufactured multi-storey housing
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Website of the Chartered Institute of Building. GCR global construction review. Australia spends millions in quest for manufactured multi-storey housing. 25 August 2016 By GCR Staff. The University of Sydney and Australian property group Lendlease have been awarded a A$3m (US$2.3m) grant by the Australian government to work on prefabricated multi-storey housing solutions. Ldquo;Despite major advances in other manufacturing sectors, innovation in residential construction is lagging”. Ldquo;Despite major a...
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GCR - News - Your chance to pick Scotland’s best building
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Website of the Chartered Institute of Building. GCR global construction review. Your chance to pick Scotland’s best building. 25 August 2016 By Joe Quirke. Public voting is invited on a shortlist of Scotland’s top 10 buildings completed over the last century, published online by Scotstyle. The 10 were chosen from a list of 100 by the Scottish public. You can vote now. For your favourite from the list even if you have previously voted. St Conan’s Kirk (Wikimedia Commons/Diane Snider). St Conan’s Kirk.
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