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A number of construction projects in the civil engineering sector in the Czech Republic were launched in 2013 and this is expected to bare fruit in construction output from 2014 onwards. Much of the growth in the coming years is to come from the railway construction sector, which has seen …

Slovakia is to receive a total of €3.9bn from the EU for transport infrastructure construction for the period 2014-2020, which is an increase of more than €750m compared to 2007-2013. Of this roughly €850m is to go into rail construction and some €1.6bn into road construction. A further amount of …

The CEA (Construction Equipment Association) in conjunction with UKTI has once again successfully organised a ‘high impact’ UK Pavilion at the forthcoming bauma China construction machinery, vehicles and equipment exhibition which takes place in Shanghai China from 25th – 28th November this year. The dedicated Pavilion is expecting to feature …

You find 8 languages in one book: German, English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Russian and Chinese! The guide provides not only technical data but all relevant data for a well-founded valuation of used machinery over the last 10 years – the online version the last 18 years.   28 different …

Exhibitors and delegates to the APEX and IRE exhibitions will have the chance to raise funds for a deserving Netherlands-based charity through a 5 km fun-run to be held at the RAI convention centre on 26 June. The run, which will start at the RAI exhibition centre at 7.00am, is …

Long established and well respected London based demolition contractors, the Squibb Group, have recently invested in more LiuGong excavators and wheeled loaders, which have been supplied by Construction Plant & Machinery Sales, who are the Portsmouth based UK dealers for LiuGong equipment. This latest order comes to fruition following the …

Detech Contracting is building part of the major Dubai canal project in the United Arab Emirates that will connect Jumeirah Creek to the Arabian Sea. After a post financial crisis wobble Dubai is once again the poster child of the Persian Gulf. Not only is it a glitzy ‘global city’ …

Ayman Okasha, a keynote speaker at the marcus evans Infrastructure & Property Development MEA Summit 2014, gives advice on achieving excellence when reviving frozen projects.   Interview with: Ayman Okasha, GM Rental & Mirdiff, Union Properties As infrastructure and property developers in the Middle East start reviving projects that were …

FEM is the European manufacturers’ association for materials handling, lifting and storage equipment, representing the technical, economic and political interests of one of the largest industrial sectors of the European mechanical engineering industry. The 35th FEM Congress is to be held on 18th-19th September 2014 at the Royal York Hotel in York (United …

Rob Oliver, Chief Executive, CEA (Construction Equipment Association) talks about the recent Budget and how it affects the construction equipment sector. In his HS2 Plus report, Sir David Higgins, started the process of turning up the pressure on politicians to approve the necessary regulatory framework to get the HS2 show …