WORLD NEWS
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july-august 2014
international
construction
2014
S
teinexpo
September 3 - 6, 2014
Homberg, Germany
Bauma C
hina
November 25 - 28, 2014
Shanghai, China
bC
I
ndia
December 15 - 18, 2014
Delhi, India
2015
W
orld of C
oncrete
February 3 - 6, 2015
(Seminars: February 2 - 6)
Las Vegas, US
W
orld of Asphalt
March 17 - 19, 2015
Baltimore, US
I
nt ermat
April 20 - 25, 2015
Paris, France
P
lant worx
June 2 - 4, 2015
Bruntingthorpe, UK
Bauma C
onE
xp o Africa
September 15 - 18, 2015
Johannesburg, South Africa
C
onE
xpo L
atin America
October 21-24, 2015
Santiago, Chile
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December 2 - 6, 2015
Bangalore, India
2016
Bauma
April 11 – 17, 2016
Munich Trade Fair Centre
Munich, Germany
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Skanska has been awarded a
US$ 93 million contract to build
the new Veterinary Medicine &
Biomedical Sciences Education
Complex and to complete
renovations and the expansion of
the existing Small Animal Hospital
for Texas A&M University (TAMU) at
its main campus in College Station,
Texas, US.
The 28,000 m
2
new building will
house state-of-the-art classrooms,
teaching and laboratory space,
and a café with indoor and outdoor
dining areas. Together with the
expansion of the small animal
hospital, the new facilities will
accommodate up to 500 teachers
and students.
Construction work is underway
and scheduled for completion in
April 2016, to coincide with the 100-
year anniversary of TAMU’s College
of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical
Sciences.
UK
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C
E
F
D
eferred
The
second
International
Construction Economic Forum
(ICEF) is being deferred to
autumn 2015 and will be held in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The event was originally planned
to take place in London on 30-31
October this year. Organiser KHL
Group said the additional time
would provide an opportunity to
prepare a world-class networking
and business conference building
on the success of the first ICEF,
which was held in November 2013.
“The original idea for ICEF
remains unchanged - to create a
global event for a discussion on
important worldwide trends in
construction, targeted at large
contractors and the wider supply
chain in the industry,” said Murray
Pollok, events director at KHL.
ICEF 2015 will also feature
a series of awards honouring
outstanding achievements in the
industry. Entries for the prestigious
International Construction Project
of the Year award will be accepted
for schemes completed between
July 1, 2013 – the day after the
closing date for the 2013 ICEF
awards – and June 30, 2015. These
dates will also apply for entries to
the other ICEF award categories
relating to construciton equipment.
J
A P
A N
K
ub
ota chairman dies
Kubota chairman, president &
CEO Yasuo Masumoto died
suddenly on June 4 at the age of
67. The cause of death has not been
disclosed. Kubota executive vice
president Masatoshi Kimata has
assumed the role of president &
CEO.
Mr Masumoto joined Kubota
in April 1971. His first senior
appointment was as general
manager of the company’s
construction
machinery
manufacturing operations in 1997.
He was first named a director of
the company in 2002 and held a
string of executive positions before
being named president & CEO
in January 2009. He took on the
chairman role in January 2011.
I
T ALY
V
enice fl
ood defence arrests
Allegations
of
corruption
surrounding the construction of
the Moses flood barrier in Venice,
Italy, have led to the arrest of the
Mayor of Venice and a reported 34
other officials and contractors.
It has been alleged that tens of
millions of Euros were handed
over as bribes during the public
tendering stage of the project.
The Mayor, Giorgio Orsoni,
has been placed under house
arrest. He is a former president of
Save Engineering – the Venice-
based engineering consultancy
responsible for upgrading and
developing Marco Polo Airport in
the city.
The € 5 billion (US$ 6.8 billion)
flood barrier project involves rows
of nearly 80 gates that could be
raised and lowered to isolate the
Venetian Lagoon from the Adriatic
Sea at high tides.
It takes its name from the
acronym for Modulo Sperimentale
Elettromeccanico (Experimental
Electromechanical Module).
Following Mr Orsoni’s arrest,
Deputy Mayor Sandro Simionato
has replaced him temporarily.
Mr Simionato allied himself with
the Mayor and said he hoped the
judiciary could resolve the situation
as soon as possible.
He said with four years of work
on the project already undertaken
and another year to go, there would
be a continued commitment to
Moses.
