Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The construction company is one of the leading businesses contracted to build the mega-projects that have been a hallmark of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s regime....
...The law allows the government to close Al Jazeera’s local offices and confiscate its equipment, while banning local cable and satellite TV companies from carrying the channel and blocking its website in...
...Pål Kildemo, chief financial officer of the Norwegian company, said this construction crash because of high rates and rising building costs had hit the aluminium sector hard, undermining earnings of Hydro...
...than a traditional masonry brick....
...The group said on its social media channels that it had interviewed two local contractors engaged in the construction who confirmed they were clearing the ground from remains of houses....
...Hundreds of locals who converged on the facility to assess the damage found a scene of devastation, with collapsed masonry, piles of shattered concrete and gaping holes in the hospital’s charred walls....
...The first section begins with a few early, ghostly images of the modern metropolis under construction (one of the images records the building of Edinburgh’s Scott Monument in 1846) but it quickly moves to...
...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...The exhibition pairs that godlike perspective with an aerial view of 1960s Baghdad, with its broad boulevards, boxy apartment buildings and modern monuments....
...The most famous chess match of all time Bobby Fischer v Boris Spassky in 1972, still casts its echoes....
...Rivian is pausing construction on building a new factory in Georgia and instead plans to build its new, less expensive sport utility vehicle at its plant in Illinois....
...Local authorities are preparing to sell off hundreds of millions of pounds' worth of land and buildings as a long-term funding squeeze shows no sign of being alleviated by the chancellor’s Budget on March...
...Authorities could only meet real need by substantial building or acquisition of housing. Martin Johnson London SE1, UK...
...Sudan’s civil war has been under way for a year now, though the country has been in turmoil since the 2019 uprising against Omar al-Bashir....
...His Excellency Dr Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al RabeeahSupervisor General, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre,Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
...The rate of newly issued building permits in the US, a barometer for future construction, jumped to the fastest pace since August in February, as easing mortgage rates and weak inventory for existing homes...
...China Construction Bank did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong...
...A spokesman for UN secretary-general António Guterres said reports of the mass graves at Nasser and al-Shifa were “extremely troubling”, and called for a “credible and independent” investigation....
...Separate data published by Germany’s federal statistical office showed the drop in the number of building permits for apartments also gathered pace in November, falling 10 per cent from the previous month...
...And no house building, no NHS appointments. You never get to see a GP, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. All of this stuff....
...But almost all these pre-1919 buildings — built before modern construction techniques were introduced after the first world war — will need retrofitting before 2030 to manage bills, reduce emissions and...
...new designs were broadly in keeping with the form and building materials of the local area....
...The death of Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Zahedi, a prominent commander of the Revolutionary Guards, marks a significant escalation in hostilities that have engulfed the region since Hamas’s attack on...
...UN secretary-general António Guterres has criticised emissions reduction plans launched by COP28 climate summit president Sultan al-Jaber, saying they “clearly fall short of what is required”....
...Meta is building a 405bn parameter version that is still being trained and will be released subject to “safety evaluations”, which are being conducted over the next few months....
International Edition