Asia
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Arcadis drops Davis from Langdon & Seah brand
18 May 12
Dutch engineer rebrands Asian QS following acquisition
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Sweett group order book boosted to £88m
27 Apr 12
Asian business grows in importance as consultant expands
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Sweett Group appoints Far East bosses
25 Apr 12
Consultant strengthens its Hong Kong and China management team to target further expansion
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Major QS firms set sights on doubling operations in Asia
20 April 2012
Ambitious strategies in the East follow Arcadis’ purchase of DLS
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Opportunities for UK in Asian 'smart cities'
10 February 2012
UKTI cites ‘immediate and sustainable’ opportunities for UK construction in rapidly growing cities in Asia
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Farrells' Kennedy Town Swimming Pool opens in Hong Kong
13 Dec 11
Phase one provides two outdoor pools with views of Victoria harbour
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Asia markets: ‘Anyone who is not looking at Asia should be’
25 November 2011
UK firms have known about the boom in Asia for some time, but now it’s become a region they simply cannot afford to ignore. Emily Wright reports on a part of the world that will spend $440bn a year on infrastructure
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Floating high in Malaysia: Angkasa Raya tower
18 November 2011
Ole Scheeren’s 268m tall tower will have three cubic ‘floating’ shafts
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RICS opens consultation on Japanese knotweed
15 Nov 11
New information paper will provide advice on invasive plant that can grow through concrete
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Top 100 South East Asia infrastructure projects revealed
27 Oct 11
Project directors from some of the Top 100 projects will be appearing at the Southeast Asia Strategic Infrastructure Leadership Forum
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Decline in Chinese property causes fears of collapse
27 Oct 11
Drop in property demand could affect steel and copper prices
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Reconstructing Japan: Construction opportunities
12 August 2011
British firms are vying for a chance to be involved in the 23 trillion yen rebuilding of disaster-hit Japan, but with such capable local contractors, the trick is knowing where to offer expertise. Building reports
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British firms to increase staff in China as economy booms
17 June 2011
Concerns about a property price bubble will be temporary, says experts
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TB Simatupang Development: Oriental sustainability
03 June 2011
Atkin’s design in Indonesia will house office, retail and serviced apartments
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BDP low carbon flats
20 May 2011
BDP has revealed its design for a “very-low carbon” apartment building in Nanjing, China
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Eastern promise: Foster + Partners' Kai Tak Cruise Terminal
15 April 2011
The terminal will open in 2013 and have the capacity to disembark 8,400 passengers
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Laing O'Rourke's Hong Kong office doubles after rail wins
15 April 2011
Contractor bulks up by 100 staff in order to service £360m Express Rail Link jobs
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Kohn Pederson Fox unveils Indian project
01 April 2011
Residential neighbourhood in Gurgaon will include duplex apartments and 40-storey towers
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Arup to stress test buildings in disaster-hit Japan
18 March 2011
Damaged construction projects are on hold and evacuations take place as Japan struggles to recover
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Turner & Townsend flees Tokyo over 'nuclear cloud'
15 Mar 11
Project manager will fly staff to Shanghai tomorrow after third explosion at nuclear plant
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RICS to help assess Japan earthquake devastation
14 Mar 11
Institution says its emergency commission will also help rebuild tsunami-hit areas
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China to remain at forefront of global construction
3 Mar 11
£60tr to be spent on construction globally in next ten years
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UK firms should build India infrastructure, says Cable
19 Jan 11
British companies well placed to help build Indian infrastructure, says business secretary
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Making a point
19 November 2010
WSP’s Grand Palladium injects futuristic design and some serious angles into the heart of Mumbai’s commercial district
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Foster's Vietnam debut breaks ground
26 Oct 10
Work gets under way on architect’s VietinBank Business Centre in Hanoi
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Commonwealth athletes 'shocked' by state of Games village
21 Sep 10
Organisers highlight plumbing and electrical problems just two days before village is due to open
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Architects' charity ready to enter Pakistan
14 Sep 10
Article 25 calls for rebuilding work to be considered now
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Capita thwarted in move to buy Cyril Sweett
03 September 2010
Consultant hunts for alternatives as Sweett’s £5.4m Chinese deal wrecks takeover talks
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Great sprawl of China
03 September 2010
PRP Architects has completed a masterplan for the centre of Chongqing city in western China
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Foster masterplan in West Kowloon: Water music
27 August 2010
Foster + Partners has revealed its masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District of Hong Kong
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Kier bags £135m Hong Kong tunnelling job
19 Aug 10
Joint venture will start work immediately on railway project
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Balfour Beatty JV wins £238m Chinese rail contract
19 Aug 10
Gammon Construction wins contract on West Kowloon stretch of Guangzhon to Hong Kong Express Rail Link
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Asia workload drives Lend Lease profit 5%
16 Aug 10
Strength of Asia Pacific regions offset weaker performance in US, Europe and Middle East Profit
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WSP expands Vietnamese office
13 Aug 10
Environmental building services arm WSP Lincolne Scott joins consultant’s office in Ho Chi Minh
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Nanjing Medical University by BDP: Chinese medicine
06 August 2010
Building Design Partnership has won the design competition for a medical faculty at Nanjing Medical University, in China’s Jiangsu province
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Benoy bags £1.6m of work in India
30 Jul 10
Architect wins three contracts during prime minister’s visit to country
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Arup, Mott and Balfour on PM's Indian trade trip
28 Jul 10
Bosses from Balfour Beatty, Mott McDonald and Arup are among 39 industry leaders on David Cameron’s trade delegation to India
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Starry opening night for Foster's Khan Shatyr
6 Jul 10
Dignitaries attend entertainment centre opening timed to celebrate Kazakhstan president’s 70th birthday
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John Prescott tells China it must reveal CO2 emissions
30 Jun 10
Challenge is issued at CIOB’s global construction summit in Shanghai today
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Balfour Beatty JV lands £353m air cargo terminal
22 Apr 10
Contractor and 50:50 partner Hip Hing Construction will build Hong Kong air cargo building for Cathay Pacific
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Mott MacDonald appointed to Mumbai's $580m monorail
12 Apr 10
Consultant will provide technical guidance for Scomi Engineering on 19.5km stretch of rail
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Tesco sends design and QS work to India
12 March 2010
Fears raised over future of UK supply chain as supermarket giant outsources early project work
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Subtle, it’s not: Shanghai International Cruise Terminal
05 March 2010
Sparch, the Asian division of Archial Group, has unveiled images of the Shanghai International Cruise Terminal, a 260,000m2 mixed-use development
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Mysterious cities of gold: Beijing's energy-producing park
26 February 2010
The Chicago and China offices of architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill have designed a plan for an energy-producing central park in Beijing’s Dawangjing district
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Balfour Beatty arm win £195m highways job in Hong Kong
25 Feb 10
Gammon Construction wins contract to widen stretch of highways, involving the demolition and construction of bridges
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Gleeds to manage Marks and Spencer's India expansion
29 Jan 10
New stores to open in shopping malls around the country and will be about 20,000ft² in size
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Plan for 100 international schools in India
14 Jan 10
Private school provider Varkey Group says India is its main target market over next few years
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Benoy's Hong Kong iSQUARE takes retail to a new level
13 Jan 10
Vertical shopping centre designed jointly with Rocco Design is 31 storeys high
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One dead and 12 hurt in Delhi Commonwealth Games fire
12 Jan 10
Insulation foam in workers' temporary living quarters caused blaze to spread rapidly after fire lit to make tea
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Tesco opens superstore in China
11 Jan 10
First of 23 planned malls kicks off supermarket giant's planned £500m spend in country this year
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Balfour Beatty's Gammon wins £180m of Hong Kong work
5 Jan 10
Contractor’s 50%-owned infrastructure firm will build train station and rail link and redevelop leisure complex
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Seven workers die in Chinese overpass collapse
4 Jan 10
A further 34 people are injured as disaster hits £2bn airport construction project at Kunming
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Indian bridge collapse kills up to 40
30 Dec 09
Project managers are arrested after worker deaths on joint Hyndai Engineering and Gammon India project
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South Korea scoops £12bn UAE nuclear contract
29 Dec 09
Four reactors will supply power by 2020 to help deal with emirate’s escalating energy needs
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BDP lands top Bollywood part
13 Nov 09
Mixed-use Mumbai scheme is architect's first project in India
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China construction to overtake US in 2018
12 Nov 09
Report predicts reshuffle of global markets will also favour Nigeria, India and Poland
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Shanghai Disneyland gets green light from Beijing
4 Nov 09
Theme park almost certain to be built after gaining approval from Chinese government
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Businesses and MPs plan India infrastructure strategy
3 Nov 09
Senior figures from Amec, Balfour Beatty and Tata and politicians meet to discuss setting up board to advise Indian government
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Mott MacDonald to advise Indonesian tsunami relief fund
30 Oct 09
Firm to provide technical help in channelling $50m funds to boost struggling areas
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Broadway Malyan's 'network city' in Malaysia
28 Oct 09
Architect releases aerial image of city four times the size of Manhattan Island
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Roof on Indian hall breaks world record
23 Oct 09
36.3m single-slab concrete flat roof on 5,000-seat hall in Jaipur enters Guinness Book of World Records
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First impressions: BIG's Chinese sustainable skyscraper
16 Oct 09
An RCA graduate architect and two architecture students from Nottingham Trent give their views on the Danish architect’s origami-inspired scheme
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Office of Metropolitan Architecture opens in Hong Kong
5 Oct 09
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas’ practice will employ about 25 architects and urban planners in new office
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Origami inspires BIG's Chinese sustainable skyscraper
8 Sep 09
Danish architect is working with Arup to create folded-skin facade for energy firm's new HQ
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Eternal Seoul: Foster + Partners's South Korea masterplan
04 September 2009
Architect wins competition to design sustainable masterplan in South Korea
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Join the global restructure
28 August 2009
Countries from Mexico to India are seeking UK expertise to help renew their transport, power and communications networks. Building’s Global Infrastructure Forum in November will tell you how to get involved …
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National library, Kazakhstan
26 Aug 09
Architect BIG is to design the 33,000m² building, which will be named after the country’s first president and built in its capital
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Colour and shape
18 Aug 09
In the latest instalment of the diary of a QS forming a joint venture in India, the co-founders of London-based Box Associates find themselves on the wrong end of a web hosting company
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One million evacuated as typhoon hits China
10 Aug 09
Winds of up to 74mph destroy thousands of homes across the south-east pf the country
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Balfour Beatty joint venture wins Hong Kong sewage contract
31 Jul 09
Gammon Construction to build three tunnels as part of Island's Harbour Area treatment scheme
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Costing India
21 Jul 09
How do you launch a quantity surveying consultancy in India? The co-founders of London-based QS Box Associates will be writing a diary of their attempt to crack the market
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Crazy angles, soaring steel: Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou opera house
17 July 2009
As the Chinese city of Guangzhou races to build a new district in time for the 2010 Asian Games, the designs of two British architects enter the spotlight. Thomas Lane charts the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Zaha Hadid’s opera house and Wilkinson Eyre’s West Tower
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Herzog & de Meuron wins Lubetkin prize for Beijing Bird's Nest
15 Jul 09
Architect's 2008 Olympic stadium beats Foster's Beijing airport terminal and Arup's Water Cube to scoop RIBA non-EU prize
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Crane collapses follow Delhi bridge accident
13 Jul 09
Metro corporation denies claims four were injured during clean-up operation, after six died and 15 were hurt in yesterday’s incident
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Five dead and 13 hurt in Delhi metro collapse
13 Jul 09
Disaster as 4km metal cantilever falls during construction of the Indian capital's new metro system
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Amec takes on South Korea energy market
9 Jul 09
Company forms joint ventures with Korean firms to tackles nuclear, thermal, gas and renewables sectors
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Buro Happold expands into Hong Kong
6 Jul 09
Multidisciplinary engineer pushes into Far East with opening of new office
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Excavation may have caused Shanghai collapse
3 Jul 09
Expert says piling under 13-storey block of flats could have failed because of work to make space for underground car park
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Images: 13-storey building collapse in Shanghai
2 Jul 09
Chinese authorities investigate after construction worker is killed by nearly-complete residential block
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Dutch consortium to advise on 35km Hong Kong bridge
2 Jul 09
Chinese government hires Tunnel Engineering Consultants on bridge and tunnel scheme linking HK to Macao and the mainland
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Former Crossrail chair to join Laing O'Rourke
1 Jul 09
Doug Oakervee will take ambassadorial role at contractor’s Pacific Rim division
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Balfour Beatty JV wins £120m Hong Kong scheme
1 Jul 09
Gammon Construction will redevelop the Hennessey Centre as a 36-storey office and retail scheme
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Construction on Heatherwick pavilion kicks off
29 Jun 09
£13m British pavilion for Shanghai Expo will be decked in 60,000 acrylic rods that will sway in the wind to 'respond to nature'
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Made in Taiwan
19 June 2009
This nation’s manufacturing prowess has reached new heights with the stunning solar-panelled roof of Toyo Ito’s stadium for the World Games
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Amanda Levete Architects prompts review of Thai rules
9 Jun 09
Foreign architects in Thailand could receive a boost thanks to former Future Systems director's practice
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RMJM wins Chinese university scheme
21 May 09
Campus in Suzhou will include teaching facilities, professional development centre and research facilities to help graduates become entrepreneurs
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Indian election victory boosts top housebuilder
20 May 09
Hirco shares soar 17% after analysts pronounce winning UPA alliance stable
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Six killed in Chinese bridge collapse
18 May 09
550 people help to clear rubble after 200m stretch of a flyover in Hunan buries road below
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Fire hits Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou opera house
12 May 09
Chinese opera house blaze comes just months after Rem Koolhaas building destroyed in Beijing
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Chinese officials deny human error in school quake deaths
8 May 09
Planning authorities claim no evidence of negligence in death of 5,335 schoolchildren in Sichuan earthquake
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Fast learner: HOK in Kazakhstan
08 May 2009
From the moment architect HOK won the contract to design and build a school in Kazakhstan it had 20 months to complete it. Dan Stewart finds out how it got on
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Mott MacDonald bags £5.4m Indian design contract
6 May 09
Job includes engineering, procurement assistance and site management for manufacturing facility
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Broadway Malyan unveils design for £73m Singapore hospital
22 Apr 09
UK architect's Singapore and Weybridge offices collaborate with local firm to produce iconic design
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Record contraction for Singapore
15 Apr 09
Economy shrank by 19.7% in first quarter as a result of sharp drop in exports
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Economic growth halves in East Asia
8 Apr 09
A fall in demand for exports will half growth in countries such as China and Thailand
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Salad saves Japanese steel factory
25 Mar 09
Firm diversifies into growing lettuce as downturn hits demand for construction products
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Eleven die in collapse at Chinese plant
24 Mar 09
One worker still buried after ceiling collapsed during construction work on chemical factory in Chongqing
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Tokyo resolves to bid for 2016 Olympics
19 Mar 09
Resolution backing the Olympic bid is passed by the Japanese parliament
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Arup to masterplan Chinese prototype eco-scheme
17 Mar 09
Government-backed green industrial park in Wuhan city aims to set an example for environmental good practice
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Gensler unveils China's tallest building at Mipim
10 Mar 09
Standing 632m tall, the architect's Shanghai Tower will dwarf the neighbouring Jin Mao Tower and Shanghai World Financial Center
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Arup to build 30km Hong Kong sea bridge
9 Mar 09
Consortium wins contract to construct a £7.5bn bridge across the sea to Macau and Chinese city of Zhuhai
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Three dead and eight hurt in Korean site collapse
18 Feb 09
Workers buried in rubble after 22m-deep pit collapses at chemicals research centre construction site
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China's state broadcaster blamed for Rem Koolhaas tower fire
10 Feb 09
Investigators find illegal fireworks caused the blaze at the 44-storey TVCC building
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India to invest $500bn in infrastructure
9 Feb 09
Consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers predict massive spending in next three years as economy continues to grow
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20,000 Indian workers leave UAE
9 Feb 09
Construction firms block-book flights to relocate or repatriate staff as downturn hits the Gulf
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Dam blamed for scale of Chinese earthquake
9 Feb 09
Pressure from Zipingpu dam could have amplified Sichuan quake that killed 70,000
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Cool runnings: Coop Himmelblau's Dalian International Conference Centre
6 February 2009
Work has started on the Dalian International Conference Centre in Shenzen, China, designed by Coop Himmelblau
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Kohn Pederson Fox designs first Malaysian project
3 Feb 09
US architect will work with Singaporean engineering consultant Web Structures on 30-storey tower
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Hill wins £240m Flame Towers contract in Baku
15 Jan 09
Consultant project manager on first contract in Republic of Azerbaijan
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Just landed: Mark Chamberlain moves to Azerbaijan
14 Jan 09
Mark Chamberlain – a member of Building's graduate advisory board – has just quit surveying for NG Bailey in London to head for a new adventure in oil exploration in Baku
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Satellites to help China rebuild after Sichuan quake
09 January 2009
An international group of engineers is working on a plan to use satellite images to measure the damage to buildings caused by the earthquake in China last May
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Mott MacDonald wins highways scheme in Singapore
17 Dec 08
UK firm hired on three of six design and build contracts on 5km-long Marina Coastal Expressway
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Singapore plans £3bn construction boost
15 Dec 08
Medium-sized public projects now on hold will be restarted to help smaller contractors
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Global housing woes set to worsen
12 Dec 08
RICS data shows housebuilding industry suffering internationally
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Images: Shanghai Tower heads into the record books
11 Dec 08
Construction starts on China's tallest building, the Gensler-designed 128-storey Shanghai Tower
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India told to act against corruption
10 Dec 08
Anti-corruption group advises India to act after country's poor rating in international bribery survey
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Feeling the chill in Shanghai
10 Dec 08
It's two degrees below zero and oddly quiet in China's second city – and that's not just because of a ban on honking car horns
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Topiary inspires new South Korean community
8 Dec 08
Dutch architect MVRDV wins competition to design new town for 77,000 people in Gwanggyo near Seoul
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Jumeirah to develop hotel in Macau
4 Dec 08
Dubai hotel group signs deal for new Cotai development
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Downturn halts Foster's Vietnam tower
27 Nov 08
Credit crunch claims architect's third international project in weeks
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Vietnam starts building $1bn airport
25 Nov 08
Prime minister says new airport on Phu Quoc island will boost national growth
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China starts work on £9.7bn nuclear plant
25 Nov 08
Fujian plant is first of six new 1,000MW reactor schemes announced this month
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Foster's Russia Tower scrapped, say reports
24 Nov 08
Moscow skyscraper believed to have fallen victim to the credit crunch
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Severfield-Rowen girds up for UAE and India
20 Nov 08
UK steel contractor to open office in Abu Dhabi and form Indian partnership
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Nagarjuna set to add to £540m of UAE work
20 Nov 08
Indian construction firm bidding for four further projects in the region next year
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Japan officially enters recession
18 Nov 08
National economy has shrunk for second quarter in a row, reveals Japanese government
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China announces £374bn financial recovery package
10 Nov 08
Government to spend £9.3bn in next three months alone on housing, infrastructure and rebuilding earthquake-affected communities
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Vietnam confirms nuclear plans
10 Nov 08
Plans to spend £2.2bn on nation's first reactor with another in the pipeline
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Chipperfield in China
7 November 2008
This David Chipperfield-designed housing scheme in China has been completed.
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Four construction workers killed in China
6 Nov 08
Shed collapse at residential building site in Hunan province adds to China's toll of construction fatalities
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Policeman 'took bribes' from building workers in Singapore
31 Oct 08
Officer alleged to have collluded with foreign onstruction workers who violated work permits
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Foreign cash builds up Kurdistan
30 Oct 08
Successful efforts to attract overseas investors have created a construction boom in this autonomous region of Iraq
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Indian PM appeals for continued Japanese support
22 Oct 08
Singh urges investors to maintain faith in Indian financial system and commitment to enterprise
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Russian war sparks Georgian development crisis
21 Oct 08
Lending restrictions in wake of conflict have slashed development activity
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Two dead in Delhi metro crane collapse
20 Oct 08
Construction worker and bus driver killed and 11 hurt on Indian rail project
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Commercial property slumps in Japan
15 Oct 08
IPD index shows returns to end June are just 8.4%, with capital growth at only 3.3%
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Mott MacDonald appointed to Indian corridor development plan
14 Oct 08
Firm will undertake feasibility study for Chennai-Bangalore Industrial Corridor of Excellence
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Singapore enters recession
10 Oct 08
Construction growth slows to 6.8% in South-east Asia's wealthiest country
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Foreign investors struggle with Chinese red tape
9 Oct 08
Report says China's construction market is holding up well but regulation is a growing problem
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Work starts on £3.7bn Chinese high-speed rail link
8 Oct 08
Four-year project extends Beijing-to-Hong Kong line by 280km up to Shijiazhuang
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Robot suits could aid construction workers
8 Oct 08
Japanese contractor invests in robot suit firm with a view to future use on building sites
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South Korea to build cinema with 'virtual sky'
30 Sep 08
Austrian architect Coop Himmelb(l)au unveils designs for 85m cantilevered roof structure
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UK architects will visit China on sustainability market mission
26 September 2008
The government is to take a group of architects to China in November in an attempt to snatch a share of the country’s sustainability market.
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Taliban kidnaps 140 construction workers in Afghanistan
23 Sep 08
Insurgents abduct workers building military base in Farah, Afghanistan
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Images: Songjiang Quarry Hotel
19 Sep 08
Atkins’ Chinese hotel concept is built on the side of an abandoned water-filled quarry and blends with local nature
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Asian markets dive after US bank collapse
16 Sep 08
Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy sends shares plunging in Japan and Hong Kong but Europe and US stocks hit less than expected
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MAD architects redesign Chinatown as a 3D star
12 Sep 08
Venice Biennale sees unveiling of 'Superstar' mobile Chinatown to be transported across the world
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Delhi plans 10 new metro stations for 2010
12 Aug 08
Pell Frischmann works with architect John McAslan + Partners to build 10 new Delhi metro stations
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Beijing Olympics: The real stars of the show
8 August 2008
More than 1.5 million visitors are expected to descend upon Beijing over the next month to see the athletes, and the grand architectural statements, of the 2008 Olympics
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The Aedas touch: Cultural centre in Singapore
1 August 2008
A flamboyant 54,000m2 civic, cultural and retail complex in Singapore has been designed by the Hong Kong office of Aedas.
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London architect reveals bamboo building in Taiwan
22 Jul 08
Bamboo screen that enables natural ventilation without compromising security could provide local model for sustainable housing
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Cyril Sweett acquisition paves way for Asian expansion
04 July 2008
Cyril Sweett is planning to expand into south-east Asia after its £5m acquisition of Burn Bridge Holdings in April.
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Making the cut: Polish pavillion at the Shanghai Expo 2010
04 July 2008
The exterior of this steel-framed building, designed by Wojciech Kakowski, will be in laser-cut plywood
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British firms to help rebuild after Chinese earthquake
6 June 2008
Atkins, Arup and Davis Langdon are among companies drawing up plans for reconstruction effort
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Country focus: Russia
6 June 2008
With spending on construction rising rapidly and the Winter Olympics on the horizon, Russia is a happy hunting ground for building opportunities. Just beware the risks involved, says EC Harris’ Mike Pearce
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Pretty bubbles in the air
2007 Issue 31
The Water Cube, as the 2008 Olympic aquatics centre is known, is the largest ETFE-clad building in the world. And, as it nears completion, its vast bubble-wrap exterior is already the talk of Beijing.
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Hadid and Heatherwick win big contracts in Azerbaijan
2007 Issue 17
Signature designers each win high-profile contracts in the world’s fastest growing economy
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Richard Rogers' Japanese school: Dream school
2003 issue 21
An elegant open-plan school beneath a sawtooth roof has been built in a Japanese village to designs by Richard Rogers Partnership
