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...A lack of water and transport infrastructure, tight property market and strong community opposition to more house building will need to be overcome if Gove’s grand designs are to be turned into concrete...
...Particularly useful when visibility is low, eg in rain, fog or snow Optical cameras Useful for detecting and differentiating the colour of things such as traffic lights, construction zones and emergency...
...Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman (Fourth Estate) In this first-hand account of mental ill-health and her struggles with anorexia, Freeman writes bravely in an attempt to dispel...
...Other manufacturing companies imported slab, semi-finished flat chunks of steel, as well as rebar, rods used to reinforce concrete in construction projects....
...Lendlease, one of Australia’s biggest construction companies, has extended its relationship with Google after it signed a deal that would see tracts of land in California redeveloped into housing and office...
...“Most of them got into difficulty early on with the civil engineering work, the site clearance and the concrete pouring. It doesn’t matter what you put on top if you don’t get the concrete right.”...
...While Rio de Janeiro has the Christ the Redeemer statue or Sugarloaf Mountain, São Paulo is better known for its serried ranks of concrete residential blocks....
...And most new apartments are sold unfinished, which means the owner takes possession of a bare concrete shell....
...In spite of this, the industry is seeking further economies of scale as it grapples with a downturn in public and private sector construction....
...Charles Freeman, a China expert and former US diplomat, remarked last year that China’s statements about the modesty of its international ambitions echoed isolationist sentiments that were common in the...
...Peter Freeman, chairman, Competition Commission. Anne Galbraith, chair, Valuation Tribunal Service. Terence Hodgkinson, chairman of Yorkshire Forward....
...“Just imagine a quiet neighbourhood and there is a 50-storey building going up in the middle,” says a former resident who moved out when construction began....
...Mr McCreevy called on the main players concerned to produce “concrete proposals” by the end of the year on “how the risks from credit derivatives can be mitigated”....
...The prefab model has various advantages over traditional “poured concrete” construction: it is cheaper and can be carried out even in the cold depths of the Russian winter....
...Michael Freeman is the author of The New Oriental Style (Thames & Hudson, £24.95)....
...Construction on the Finnish plant began this week. Late last year France approved its own EPR project at an estimated cost of €3bn....
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