Turner Construction is on course to deliver a splendid new courthouse for Florida’s Duval County. Project executive Mark Alles talks to Gay Sutton about the unique features of good courthouse construction.
Tunnel boring can be hard work, but it doesn’t come much harder than on this Maryland project by Oscar Renda Contracting, as Alan Swaby learns.
There are gophers busy under the suburbs of Silver Spring, Maryland, but they’re not doing any harm. Instead, they’re busy nibbling away the rock, ready to construct a vital link in the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) water system.
April Terreri learns a few secrets about the success of Shepard Development Corporation, including its philosophy not to build on spec, but to have value-added tenants ready to occupy new office and commercial buildings.
When Dubai dramatically fell victim to the global economic recession, the construction industry was hit harder than most. Electromechanical construction specialist Trans Gulf has come through it remarkably unscathed. General manager Sekhar Reddy explains to Gay Sutton how the company’s partnership policy and pragmatic approach to growth have stood it in good stead.
Jane Bordenave discovers how Thames Water, the UK’s biggest water company, is turning its customers’ flushes into energy and cost savings via its Poo Power initiative.
South Africa is continuing to embrace the need for change through its Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) initiative. Gavin Davids tells Andrew Pelis how management restructuring in line with BEE means the sky is now the limit for Ruwacon.
Perhaps the biggest industrial change in South Africa in recent times has been the introduction of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE), a tool that encourages businesses to hire, train and give ownership to the country’s black community.
The Port of Durban, catering for all cargo sectors and especially containers, automotive and bulk liquids, continues with its infrastructure investment programme in order to meet the needs of shippers and the South African industries they serve. Dave Ward, project manager for Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA), told John O’Hanlon how the Durban Harbour Entrance Widening & Deepening (DHEW) project is taking the port into the era of the big ships.
An architect of Africa’s improved infrastructure, Civicon puts its success down to its entrepreneurial spirit, as Andrew Pelis finds out.
Through the eyes of David Horsey, Eastern Africa represents a proven world of opportunity through a series of emerging countries that kick the term ‘Third World’ firmly to the road side. And the chances are that the road side in question may have been built by the company that David, and his brother Horace founded back in 1975.
KZN’s Grid Group believes in using today’s ideas to solve today’s challenges in construction—and it is already working out tomorrow’s solutions as well, as Ruari McCallion discovers.
South Africa-based consulting port and coastal engineers Prestedge Retief Dresner Wijnberg is finding success all over the world, with its projects designed and built to withstand the toughest challenges that nature can throw at them, as Julia Smith discovers.
