APCRDA states that nearly 60% of machinery remains non-operational, warns that the situation can worsen if supply issues persist
An image of a Hong Kong construction worker smoking a cigarette while on bamboo scaffolding at a residential building has prompted outrage among internet users, who have drawn comparisons with the suspected cause of the city’s deadliest fire in decades. An image shared on a Facebook page called the Shau Kei Wan Sai Wan Ho Concern Group showed a worker smoking a cigarette while standing on scaffolding erected around what was identified as Tai On Building. A second worker in the same photo can be...
Defence airports in Bengaluru have been imposing ‘excessive restrictions while granting NOC for construction within the 20km range of the airports’, Shivakumar states in his letter
Justice V. Lakshminarayanan quashes planning permission granted by Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority to RUIA Developers LLP
Construction is expected to continue at the White House until the next hearing which is due to take place in June.
A US appeals court allowed President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday night to continue construction of a US$400 million ballroom on the site of the White House’s demolished East Wing, setting a June hearing to review a Washington judge’s order halting the project. An order by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit put the lower court’s preliminary injunction on hold for now, giving the panel time to consider the US Justice Department’s...
The owners’ corporation of a Hong Kong housing complex devastated in the city’s deadliest fire in decades failed to convince renovation workers to use fire-resistant materials due to the absence of statutory requirements, a public inquiry heard on Friday. Tony Tsui Moon-come, chairman of the management committee of the incorporated owners of Wang Fuk Court at the time of the fire, said on Friday he and other residents were “helpless” when trying to compel contractor Prestige Construction and...
Judges, however, raise questions about Trump arguments that completing the ballroom is necessary for national security.
Once dubbed the world’s tallest abandoned skyscraper, Goldin Finance 117 in northern China appears to be in the homestretch of a marathon construction effort – after nearly a decade of dormancy and a year of resumed work – even as the nation’s property market struggles to leg out a sustained recovery. Late last month, workers began installing a diamond-shaped crown on top of the building – designed to be 596 metres (1,955 feet) tall upon completion – in the port city of Tianjin, according to...
The motion argues that a ruling suspending the construction was 'improper' and left national security weaknesses.
Legal fight over Trump's enormous construction project will continue despite panel's approval.