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FOREWORD: Construction, Building & Real Estate
Keeping up with the future of construction can be heavy-going, as construction is an industry that is heavily dependent upon business cycles, including fluctuations in interest rates and tax laws, as well as changes to state and local budgets and regulations, which affect road construction and maintenance, resulting in new construction or, adversely, halt planned projects.
Global Ambitions
Ankara-based NUROL Construction and Trading Co. Inc. is the nucleus company of the NUROL Holding Group, established in 1966 as a general international contracting company, and since that time the company has pursued large-scale, hi-tech transnational projects.
Smooth Operator
For the past 35 years, Gantry has been taking the load in a variety of heavy duty applications with its Gantrex crane rail soft mounting systems. Sarah Pursey finds out from Mr Noël Melardy, Gantry’s Marketing and Commercial Director, how this global market leader continues to ensure that its operations run smoothly.
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The Cornerstone of Quality
With more than 25 years of expertise in specialised bridge construction equipment, Norway-based NRS has helped build more than 500 bridges in over 25 countries.
Building on an International Platform
Over the past 50 years, Delattre-Levivier Maroc has developed its capabilities to emerge as the country’s leader in heavy steel construction.
Building Across the Region
The Montmontaza Group have been providing for Croatian infrastructure and industry for over 50 years.
Deep-rooted foundations
Egypt-based Hassan Allam Sons is a company with a lengthy history of successful construction operations.
An Accommodating Company
Kwikspace designs, manufactures, supplies, and installs a wide range of standard and customised instant building accommodation to industry in Africa and beyond.
Cementing a Triumph in Industry
Leading market player, Nanjing Triumph Cement Technology Engineering Co. has pioneered the construction of cement production plants through innovation and technical expertise.
Giving the Lift to Cranes
Drawing on its enviable reputation and long experience in crane design and engineering, Bergen Group Dreggen produces cranes for the marine and offshore industries.
On Track for Prosperity
In the 40-plus years since its inception, Yapı Merkezi has grown from a purely research and design company to a multi-division concern engaged in a wide variety of projects around the Mediterranean as well as in its native Turkey.
Developments of Distinction
Over the past 40 years, PJ Development Holdings has grown its business on a solid reputation for reliability, quality and high standards of workmanship to become a formidable force in Malaysian industry and international markets alike. Today, the company has a network of diversified business interests in property development, construction, manufacturing and hospitality that have allowed them to continue to advance, even in times of recession.
Building the Community
Greek company AEGEK carries out much of its home country’s infrastructure and public works with additional operations in the Balkan area, Romania, Cyprus and Jordan.
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- Energy
Gemma Carter examines one of the most populous countries in Africa.
The Gift of the Nile
Algae are the focus of attempts to achieve commercially-viable systems for harnessing photosynthesis for atmospheric CO2 fixation and biosynthesis of fuels.
A Green Solution
In the aftermath of the failed Copenhagen environmental summit last December, the question of finding a secure, environmentally sustainable and economically viable source of energy to power the future remains unanswered. As a result, nuclear power has been thrust back into the limelight, could a nuclear future be the safest, cleanest and most cost-effective option? Laurie Cuthbert investigates