2011 – The year of small steps 2011 brought small increases to constructions, but that gives hope for a 2012 full of achievements. In September 2011 the players of the construction sector said that Romania’s economy is growing mainly because of this business area. Compared to 2010, when the crisis …
Read More »INTERMAT 2012 is critical to hopes of European industry
European manufacturers have to fight for a share of emerging markets and INTERMAT 2012 will reveal some of their strategies INTERMAT 2012 will be the world’s biggest international construction machinery show next year and has come at a critical time for the industry. French economist Jean-Joseph Boillot has said that the …
Read More »Highways – a helping hand for the Romanian economy
The desire of highways to run on decently is no longer present only in the minds of the drivers, plagued by the bad roads. Highways are built at low pace, with lots of stumbling and especially by using lots of money. The contentious would say that Romanian highways are some …
Read More »A great bridge, but at what cost?
Mounting costs, controversy about outsourcing to China, and long delays have dogged the construction of the East Span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge
Read More »Morocco's €1.8 billion TGV project splits opinion
Morocco will be the first country in both the African and Arab worlds to build a high-speed rail (HSR) line, but the high price of 20 billion dirhams (€1.8 billion) has polarised opinion. The Moroccan Government, of course, says the elevated cost is justified. They argue that when the 350km TGV rail link from Tangier to Casablanca opens in December 2015, it will inject new life into the weak Moroccan economy.
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