USA and Canada


Bird Construction won the largest single-building construction project ever awarded by the Canadian Forces to build a new maintenance hangar for the CC-177 Globemaster III. April Terreri talks to project manager Shawn Stirling.

 

 


Building an outstanding reputation for construction in the San Francisco Bay Area is a challenge fraught with pitfalls. Yet for Nibbi Brothers General Contractors, the idiosyncrasies of each project represent a labor of love, as Andrew Pelis learns.

 


Economic optimists search constantly for so-called green shoots—subtle signs that the global economy is preparing to roar back to life. In the northern part of Quebec province, Consolidated Thompson Mines is at work on a project that suggests there may be reasons to be bullish about the prospects for solid growth in at least some parts of the world.


A $285 million investment at Yonkers Raceway has equipped the venue for the 21st century. Ben Sansom reports on an expansion program which has enabled the historic venue to thrive where many others have suffered in the recent economic slowdown