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- How has the latest crisis hit the built environment industry?
Anecdotal reports are starting to trickle out that the current crisis is starting to bite into architectural and multi-discipline firms around the world from USA, Europe and Australia. It’s not just the multi-nationals who are hurting but local firms also.
Many of the large multi-national firms are starting to lay off staff as projects are being [...]
- 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 [...]
- Foriegn firms aren’t just in India for the cash
The Times of India looks at foreign firms in India and talks about
Be it a slum redevelopment project in congested Mumbai or Kolkata’s new museum of modern art, the global imprint on the country’s fast-changing urban landscape is evident. Made in India but designed by a clutch of foreign architects looking to cash in on the [...]
- Ekistics designs golf courses, entire cities - TheChronicleHerald.ca
Designing a new city in northern Libya for two million people seems a daunting task, but Rob LeBlanc doesn’t seem fazed by it.
“It’s a massive, massive project,” the landscape architect says of the resort city he is planning on the Mediterranean coast.
“It details where houses are going to go, the industrial parks, airports, office buildings.”
Landscape [...]
- Foreign exchange -Taranaki Daily News
French landscape architect student Kevin Clare wanted to do his work experience in New York, instead he ended up at Pukeiti.
Landscape architecture student Kevin Clare, 22, has just completed his work experience at Pukeiti. Mr Clare is in his second year of a five-year degree at Ecole Nationale Superieure de la Nature et du [...]
- Urban Agriculture thrives in Zimbabwe
RESIDENTS in and around Harare have capitalised on the incessant rains currently being experienced to plant maize and other crops for subsistence as more families get involved in urban agriculture.
A survey around the city, mostly in high-density suburbs, showed that urban agriculture was thriving as most residents took up patches of land dotted around the [...]
