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Crowne Plaza Today New Delhi Okhla nears completion

Energy-conscious design incorporates 65 percent natural daylight in this latest InterContinental Hotels Group venture

Lobby of the Crowne Plaza Today New Delhi Okhla

Housing starts jump in Canada

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CHMC) says gain fueled by multiple starts segment, especially in the GTA

Housing starts in Canada increased in January

BJ Services wins Gorgon Pipeline precommissioning contract

Western Australia company will oversee cleaning and preparation of all equipment to be used in massive construction

Officials on Barrow Island, site of the Gorgon Gas Project

Case Construction Equipment wins multiple awards

Company’s innovative wheel loaders, crawler dozer and joystick-steering option all win industry accolades

Case Equipment's machinery has received several industry awards

The Data DIGest: Downward spiral continues

Construction spending reaches its lowest level since June ’03. January figures show 9.3 percent decline from same period in 2009

Ken Simonson, Chief Economist for the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)

Focusing on post-quake reconstruction in Chile

The country’s strict building codes saved modern buildings and countless lives; infrastructure and older structures made of adobe must be re-built

The earthquake in Chile was the fifth largest ever recorded

Green building specialist SEED relocates

Company founded by builders designers focused solely on sustainable projects now occupies green office in Bethesda, MD that is seeking LEED certification

SEED specializes in building sustainable homes

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Timber is both sustainable and carbon neutral

Carillion Canada wins Toronto Union Station job

Revitalization and restoration project will take five years at a cost of £360 million

First-half profit drop for UK’s Kier Group

Decline due largely to fine levied by Office for Fair Trading for a fair-trading probe

Edna May Gold Mine construction ahead of schedule in Australia

Catalpa Resources' Managing Director Bruce McFadzean confirms first gold pour will take place in May

Constuction of Catalpa Resources Edna May Gold Mine is ahead of schedule

Crossrail budget sought by London Assembly

Clarification and transparency asked of how funds for the UK’s largest civil engineering project will be spent

Crossrail is the largest addition to the London Transport network in more than 50 years

Safest house, or overkill?

Fortress-like 32-room L.A. mansion features panic rooms, safe cores and more in the way of surveillance

Los Angeles home (left) designed by Al V. Corbi

Fluor gets $500m mining expansion contract

BHP Billiton approves joint venture project in Western Australia involving Fluor and Sinclair Knight Merz

China Infrastructure Construction Corporation opens in Xi’an

Expansion will bring $40m production capacity or ready-mix concrete to ‘one of the most important cities in Western China’

Xi'an is one of China's Four Ancient Capitals

Obama unveils nuclear plant building plan

Energy Department’s $8.3b loan will fund construction of the nation’s first new plant in nearly 30 years at Georgia site

Most US nuclear power plants, such as Seabrook Station in NH, were built more than 30 years ago

The Data DIGest: Nonresidential construction climbs

However, the inability to secure credit continues to constrain any significant recovery of the commercial market

Parsons bridge project wins 2009 Excellence Award

American Segmental Bridge Institute honors Parsons for its Maroon Creek Bridge replacement project for the Colorado DOT

Pulte Homes featured on Discovery Channel

Michigan leaders in environmental stewardship will be highlighted on debut episode of The Green Room for their Award-Winning Use of Green Technologies