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  • Long-term transport plan urgently needed say engineers

    Engineers have warned that a lack of strategy, patchy maintenance and uncertain funding is undermining Britain's infrastructure, and have called for an independent commission to create a long-term transport plan.The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) said that the short-term political cycle and spending decisions were leaving necessary work undone and delaying big projects.ICE said ...

  • Construction businesses struggle to find new projects

    PARKERSBURG - One of the sectors hit especially hard by the national recession of the past few years has been construction and those effects continued to be felt in the Mid-Ohio Valley in 2010. Bill Hutchinson, business manager of the Parkersburg-Marietta Building and Construction Trades Council, said 2010 remained a slow year for the building trades in the Mid-Ohio Valley - as had 2009 - with ...

  • Construction worker killed in Arizona bridge collapse

    A construction worker was killed early Wednesday when a bridge collapsed outside Phoenix, officials said. A second worker was pulled from under the rubble, KNXV-TV reported. Officials said he received a serious head injury but was reported to be in stable condition at a local hospital. The construction site is on the Route 202 Loop in Mesa. Capt. Forrest Smith of the Mesa Fire Department said ...

  • Construction firm improperly got minority status Kansas City auditors say

    Today, no fewer than five transit agencies operate in the Kansas City area: the recently created Kansas City streetcar authority and four bus systems run by Independence, Johnson County and both Kansas Citys. On Wednesday, Area Transportation Authority chairman Robbie Makinen and Johnson County Commissioner Steve Klika will present a plan to make the ATA “the regional transit authority it ...

  • Whiting Petroleum Corporation Announces Retirement of VP of Reservoir EngineeringAcquisitions J. Douglas Lang

    DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Whiting Petroleum Corporation ( ) today announced the retirement of J. Douglas Lang, Whiting's Vice President of Reservoir Engineering/Acquisitions, effective June 30, 2013. Mr. Lang joined Whiting in December 1999 and was appointed VP-Reservoir Engineering/Acquisitions in October 2004. James J. Volker, Whiting's Chairman and CEO, commented, ...

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In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida) [DVD]

In the Realm of the Senses (Ai no corrida) [DVD]

Japanese filmmaker Nagisa Oshima has never been a stranger to controversy. As soon as he started directing films in the late 1950s, his leftist political and philosophical bent, not to mention his proclivity for basing his films on scandalous real-life events, go ... ...

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  • Interstate 595 Widening Marks Floridas First P3 Effort

    ----- Advertising ----- The mission: to shoehorn three new 10.5-mile-long reversible toll lanes into the middle of a six-lane interstate highway—including work on 63 bridges and 2.5 miles of the Florida Turnpike—while minimizing disruptions to up to 200,000 daily vehicles in the Fort Lauderdale area of Broward County, Fla.The method: a concessionaire agreement with a design-build ...

  • Orange voters will be asked to extend half-penny sales tax for school construction

    Orange County voters will be asked next year to extend a half-penny sales tax to continue renovating older schools and building new ones.The School Board unanimously decided Tuesday to ask voters to approve a new half-cent tax that would kick in when the current one ends in 2015, though it did not decide how long the tax would be extended.The current tax is expected to raise enough money to ...

  • UW Minister worried about poor construction works

    Wa, June 19, GNA - Dr. Ephraim Avea Nsoh, Upper West Regional Minister, has expressed worry about the poor execution of some on-going government projects in the Wa ...

  • Deputies Man in construction hat robs bank

    Deputies said he displayed a handgun and shoved a customer out of the way and demanded money from the clerk. The suspect fled on foot and was last seen heading northwest. Anyone with information is asked to call Crimeline at ...

  • Bridge construction worker suffers severe electric shock on Vancouver Island

    NORTH COWICHAN - A man has been airlifted to hospital in Victoria with serious injuries after being hurt in a workplace accident on Vancouver Island, between Ladysmith and Duncan.BC Ambulance Services spokeswoman Kelsie Carwithin says the incident happened just after 2 p.m. Tuesday.She says the man was working on the Chemainus River Bridge replacement project and appears to have suffered ...

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