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Dubai Creek Habour a new world-class development
A NEW venture from Emaar Properties(EP), Dubai Creek “Harbour will be both a financially viable and ecologically responsible city built with future generations in mind. Offering the best infrastructure, it is a place where people will live, work and play, a community where families can reach their aspirations for generations to come.” EP said. While
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ALLIANCE INSURANCE’S UNIQUE ‘African Modernist’
ARCHITECT: Architrave Design Group ENGINEERS: Promecs Consulting Engineers QUANTITY SURVEYOR: OCM Quantity Surveyors MAIN CONTRACTOR: Elevate Construction Alliance Insurance’s new head quarters were completed about two years ago towards the end of 2015. If you’ve travelled along Ridgeway North in the Borrowdale area, near Rietfontein, you will no doubt have seen this impressive and iconic
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The Risky Business of Project Management
One of the critical knowledge areas learnt and practiced in project management is Project Risk Management. Lack of such knowledge compromises the probability of project success. Most other research papers will list lack of, or poor risk management amongst the litany of reasons for project failure. Project management is a very risky business due to
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The new Trade Kings plant looms over Workington
TRADE Kings Zimbabwe’s new detergent plant in the Workington area of Harare is impressive and definitely not easy to miss. The six-storey tall blue process building and adjacent spray-drying tower are the most prominent features of this project, visible from quite a distance. However equally impressive once on site is the engineering, design and workmanship
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The architectural gem of Zimbabwean art
The National Gallery of Zimbabwe building stands as a marvel of Modern Architecture. According to the Manchester Guardian, in May of 1956; the Gallery Building’s formal features maximised on light and space. The building stood as a testament to a general zeal for development which was prevalent in the Federation; the realization of a dream
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ZBCA CONFERENCE 2017
The much-awaited ZBCA 2017 Annual General Conference was successfully held in Masvingo at Great Zimbabwe Hotel. The Conference managed to draw more than 120 participants across the built environment. It was officially opened by Masvingo Resident Minister and Guest of Honour Dr P. Chimedza. Indeed, the Conference lived to its billing as the place where
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Supporting the future
BETA Holdings held their second Students Architectural Competition this year. The brief was for students to design a building for an Institute for the Built Environment sector. The proposed site would be Borrowdale and the facility was to cater for the various consultants in that sector including: architects, engineers, quantity and surveyors, realtors, urban and
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Manhattan Interiors. Quality. Style. Comfort.
MANHATTAN INTERIORS is the retail arm of well known local furniture designers and manufacturers J W Wilson International. A family business founded in 1958 so they’re celebrating 60 years in the furniture trade this year. J W Wilson is currently run by brothers Jim and Allan Wilson, with Tracy Wilson overseeing the Manhattan Interiors shop.
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Zimbabwean President Mnangagwa commissions construction of Chinese-funded power plant
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday commissioned the construction of a 1.5 billion U.S. dollars Chinese-funded Hwange Power Station expansion project, the second major power development project by China in the southern African country in five years. The expansion to be carried out by China’s power and engineering construction firm, Sinohydro, will add two generating
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G&T Scales
Weighing is fundamental to almost every business. We have vast solutions for the construction sector these include supplying and servicing of electronic weighbridges, platform scales etc. These scales helps in checking and assuring accuracy of measurable quantities required to accomplish desired goals and at the same time promoting an effective use of resources. Our weighbridges
