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If there hasn't been a conspiracy going on in the house building industry these past few years then at least some evidence of collusion is becoming apparent. There are too many faces looking... Oklahoma crane fall kills man watching construction
An elderly man watching a construction site from his car was killed when a crane fell putting a steeple on an Oklahoma City church earlier today."Ambulance officials say a 78-year-old woman who was also in the car was transported to a hospital in good condition.The accident... Attack injures 5 near Obama's Jerusalem hotel
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- The driver of a backhoe was shot and killed after he drove the construction machine over a number of vehicles near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama is scheduled to stay Tuesday night,... Sea-to-Sky
... is the name of the highway that runs between Vancouver and Whistler, where all the skiing etc events will be held in 2010. This notoriously dangerous, winding coastal highway has been under construction for... Ha Noi to Get Seven-Star Hotel
A seven-star hotel, expected to be one of the world’s biggest hotels, will be built in Ha noi by Israel’s El-Ad Group."The project includes a luxury hotel, an area for conferences, apartments, and an office building equipped modern facilities. The project is being... War is over - but WW2 Bombs continue to be found...
As a foreigner in Berlin, these articles never cease to amaze me. By some estimates - British and American Bombers dropped over 2 million tons of bombs on Germany during WW2. As the city of Berlin (and... BC fire hall first one to 'go green'
The No. 1 fire hall in Maple Ridge will be the first one in BC to go green at the end of their multi-million dollar expansion. Construction will start in a few weeks, and a fire hall spokesperson tells NowPublic that... Job Site Corruption Linked to NYC Crane Collapses
With all those cranes towering over New York City, one would like to believe that the people operating them are fully qualified to do so. One would be mistaken. A 2006 lawsuit over job-site corruption exposed several weak links in the safety of construction sites, which... New York City Council Hearing on Construction Safety Today
The New York City Council will hold a hearing today regarding construction site and public safety. So far 20 people have lost their lives in construction accidents this year.Read more : Construction Safety Hearing on July 15Savings windfall for firm that moved from Microsoft Outlook to Gmail
"Taylor Woodrow, a UK-based construction company, has switched its 1,800 employees' e-mail from Microsoft Outlook to enterprise Gmail. The company is also beginning to use other components of Google Apps, the suite of Web-based applications that includes, in addition to... Jackie Chan Museum Planned in Shanghai
If ever there were an action movie star who deserved their own museum, surely it would be Jackie Chan. If you've never witnessed the mind-blowing spectacle of his stunts and fight scenes, you don't know Jackie.My... Post-Soviet 'frozen conflicts' heat up as big-power interests collide
"Tensions are growing as NATO and a resurgent Russia divide over future of breakaway statelets. By Fred Weir | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor from the June 25, 2008 editionOstIngur, AbkhazGeorgia border - Tensions are again spiking...Worker crushed by falling crane
A man who was killed by a falling crane's death has been ruled as accidental by a court in the UK."The death of a man when a crane fell on a building site in Liverpool was accidental, an inquest jury has ruled. Construction worker Zbigniew Roman Swirzynski was struck by a... Paris and skyscrapers go together now
Bertrand Delanoe, the mayor of Paris, plans to lift the ban on skyscraper construction in the capital. Six 200-metre towers as well as an unknown number of 50-metre apartment blocks are to be constructed all around... NASA rolls out new shuttle launch schedule
"NASA unveiled a new launch schedule today that calls for eight shuttle missions in 2009 and 2010 and 10 overall before the nation's three-orbiter fleet is retired.The last of the missions now is slated to launch May 31, 2010 -- which would leave enough time to launch an...
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