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- Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough - Fast Company
Green architect William McDonough has been hailed as a water-walking visionary. The truth is far more complicated.
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- AECOM Announces Contract with Abu Dhabi Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) with Net Value Expected to Exceed $210 Million Through 2013
AECOM Technology Corporation (NYSE: ACM), a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, today announced that it has signed a contract to provide development management services to Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) for the Saadiyat Island Cultural District and other projects in [...]
- PI Insurance claims predicted to increase
As economic conditions worsen, LI members need to be aware that there is a risk of an increased number of complaints or insurance claims being brought against them by clients.
read more @ the SOURCE: Landscape Institute – PI Insurance claims predicted to increase.
- Mega property projects in the Middle East could face funding problems | Middle East | News
Large scale finance and real estate projects in the Middle East, some of which were announced at Cityscape, will be vulnerable to the global credit crunch, according to a new report.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Propertywire.com – Mega property projects in the Middle East could face funding problems | Middle East | News.
- U.S. Architects Hard Hit by Financial Crisis - Architectural Record
The plunging financial markets this month, followed by unprecedented responses from the federal government, have left many Americans bracing for a deep recession. In the architecture profession, however, the downturn has already arrived, according to a key measure of the market for architectural services.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Architectural Record – Architects Hard Hit by Financial [...]
- Government to boost Chinese property market
Facing a housing market lull which could drag China’s economy further in the backdrop of a worldwide financial crisis, Beijing is probing possibilities to loosen its macro control to activate the real estate sector.
As many as 18 Chinese cities, including Shanghai,Guangzhou,Hangzhou and Xi’an, have announced detailed policies to boost their property market, which have seen [...]
- RMJM boss: architecture dominated by white middle aged men - Building
Peter Morrison says industry must lose its “old boy’s club” image
The architectural industry is dominated by white middle aged men and needs to shed its “old boy’s club” image, according to the head of one of the largest architectural firms in the UK.
Peter Morrison, chief executive of RMJM, said the profession should become more open [...]
- Estate Gardens by ValleyCrest Launches in Dallas
ValleyCrest Companies, the leading national full-service landscape firm with $1 billion in revenue, today announced that they will be re-branding the residential design-build efforts in the Dallas area under the Estate Gardens by ValleyCrest name. Providing seamless design-build services, Estate Gardens by ValleyCrest offers luxury residential landscape services to homeowners, architects, developers and building contractors.
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- Hyder appoints new CEO
Ivor Catto, currently a member of the Executive Board of Atkins, has been named as successor to Tim Wade as chief executive of Hyder Consulting.
He will take on the role on 1 December. Tim Wade, who had announced he would retire on 31 August, will stay on until that date.
SOURCE: Hyder Consulting News
- MAJORITY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS BUSY BUT FEWER PLAN TO HIRE - ASLA
While the majority of landscape architects remained busy last quarter, fewer than three in ten firms plan to hire in the short term, according to the latest Business Quarterly survey by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA).
Almost 57 percent of landscape architecture firms reported average or above billable hours in Q2 2008 and [...]
- RMJM help inner city youths become architects
Scotsman.com reports that RMJM the Edinburgh based firm has launched a project worth £1m in conjuction with the Stephen Lawrence Trust to encourage more inner city youths from ethnic minorities to pursue a career in architecture.
RMJM worked on the Scottish Parliament building hopes that the project will increase the diversity and creativity of architecture and help address the global skills shortage [...]
- LandDesign and Audubon Lifestyles Join Forces for Sustainable Development
LandDesign Inc. and Audubon Lifestyles, LLC, today announce a new strategic partnership aimed at helping businesses and municipalities to implement green design and development and build more sustainable communities.
The partnership will offer comprehensive, practical and timely assistance for clients that are committed to environmentally responsible green design and sustainable development, and creating long-term quality of [...]
- Three Sixty Design appoints Philosophy Communications to create brand
Three Sixty Design is a landscape architecture firm specializing in site planning, landscape architecture, and sustainable appointed Philosophy Communication, Inc., a Denver-based marketing and public relations agency, to manage its new brand, including the logo and business collateral design and Web site development.
Three Sixty Design believes the practice of landscape architecture is a tool [...]
- It’s one big battle for the brains - The Times
Chris Reay, the CEO of Engineer Placements, says the industry is especially vulnerable because engineers are in demand around the world. He says that often when he tries to contact some of the engineers on his company’s database he finds they “are now in Perth, Dubai or China”.
Also, it is not only South Africa that [...]
- UAE among top 10 destinations for workers
UAE among top 10 destinations for workers
DUBAI: The UAE has been ranked among the top 10 preferred destinations for workers, attracting quality workforce from all over the globe with its vibrant job market, a survey has revealed.
The survey ‘Relocating For Work’, conducted by Manpower Middle East said that with the region growing as a popular [...]
- Something from Nothing - Sasaki Feaure in The Boston Globe
Why would a company want employees diving into its trash bins? Because at Sasaki Associates, one of the country’s hottest landscape and urban-design firms that’s shaping the Olympic village in Beijing, life is all about salvaging good from bad.
FOREST PARK IS A LARGE GREEN space on the northern fringes of the Beijing Olympic site, home [...]
- NYC artist builds Lego model of Trump Dubai tower — Newsday.com
New York City artist has built a replica of the soon-to-open Trump Dubai hotel tower out of thousands of Lego pieces.
Nathan Sawaya’s 10-foot version of the distinctive five-star hotel is expected to be unveiled Monday in Columbus Circle.
SOURCE: Newsday.com – NYC artist builds Lego model of Trump Dubai tower
- LANDSCAPE STRUCTURES COMMITS $200,000 TO SUSTAINABLE SITES INITIATIVE
Landscape Structures Inc., a premier manufacturer of commercial playground equipment based in Delano, Minn., has committed $200,000 to support the Sustainable Sites Initiative, an interdisciplinary partnership between the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the United States Botanic Garden, and other organizations to develop guidelines and standards for landscape [...]
- CMU gets $2 million gift for architecture school - Pittsburgh Tribune
The Heinz Endowments has given $2 million to Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture to endow a directorship and diversify students in urban design.
SOURCE: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – CMU gets $2 million gift for architecture school -
- Going Green From The Ground Up - Texas Contractor
The green build wave is rising, and right now general contractors have the opportunity to ride its crest. It is fast becoming expected that professionals in the building trades are ready, willing and able to work green — and that means understanding the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED standards (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design).Contractor’s [...]
