http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Latest Construction equipment and contract newsenConstruction News PortalConstruction News Portalhttp://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7022.htmlThu, 11 Mar 2010 11:35:23 GMTZachry Holdings, Inc., a San Antonio, Texas-based engineering, construction, and industrial maintenance company, has standardized on Bentley's ConstructSim. The software will be made available to all of Zachry's project teams at job sites nationwide [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7025.htmlThu, 11 Mar 2010 11:32:52 GMTCrowne Plaza is one of the fastest growing business hotel brands from InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms. Globally, there are 366 Crowne Plazas with 100,994 rooms in over 60 countries. Crowne P [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7019.htmlWed, 10 Mar 2010 13:06:20 GMTISG has commenced work on a GBP3.3 million project with Her Majesty's Courts Service (HMCS) to refurbish and upgrade the Manchester Crown Court building. The scheme sees the contractor make significant internal alterations to the building to accommodat [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7009.htmlWed, 10 Mar 2010 13:04:22 GMTDue to long-standing underinvestment, the Polish power sector is facing a genuine need of finding up to €50bn on investments in new power-production capacity and transmission systems in the coming years. However, only part of the projects initially a [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7023.htmlTue, 9 Mar 2010 12:39:27 GMTAccording to the latest CIPS/Markit UK Manufacturing PMI, UK construction activity has continued to fall during February. However, the rate of decline was one of the weakest during the current two-year period of contraction. The seasonally adjuste [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7028.htmlTue, 9 Mar 2010 12:39:17 GMTMcBains Cooper is embarking upon a joint venture with Brazil's second largest civil engineering company, Concremat, to support inward investment into the country and work on domestic Public-Private Partnership (PPP) projects. Santiago Klein, manag [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7016.htmlMon, 8 Mar 2010 10:20:09 GMTThe Government's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme is the biggest-ever school buildings investment programme, with the aim being to rebuild or renew every school in the UK. Two British clean technology firms have combined forces to unve [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7021.htmlMon, 8 Mar 2010 10:19:58 GMTAntolini has debuted its Signature Stone Collection which includes varieties of granite and quartzite chosen for their unique characteristics and versatility. Selections are now available in over thirty showrooms in the United States and Canada. W [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7015.htmlFri, 5 Mar 2010 11:19:05 GMTWRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) is inviting applications to a new fund which supports the Government's target of halving construction waste to landfill by 2012. WRAP's capital competition aims to stimulate investment in additional capacity [...more]http://www.constructionnewsportal.com/Construction_article7020.htmlFri, 5 Mar 2010 11:18:59 GMTIKM Consulting has been appointed to perform site investigations for the building of a new primary school in Inverness. The GBP7M Milton of Leys school project has been given the green light by Highland Council's education, culture and sport commit [...more]