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Leighton Secures Over $750m in Contracts: Leighton Holdings Ltd, Australia's biggest construction company, has secured more than $700 million of development contracts in Indonesia and Abu Dhabi.The company has been awarded a $US350 million ($A372.02 million) contract to expand an Indonesian coal mine, while Leighton's 45 per cent-owned Middle Eastern group has secured a $AED1.2...; Tags: Construction Company, Australian Associated Press Pty Ltd., Coal, Indonesia, Leighton, Construction, Transportation, AAP; News items 2008-05-14
Treasury Officials to Meet Wall Street Execs: Report: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasury Department officials plan private meetings with Wall Street executives and bankers, in an apparent attempt to counter Congressional Democrats seeking stronger steps to handle the housing crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Six meetings...; Tags: U.S. Department of Treasury, banker, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Democrat, New York, advisor, Thomson Reuters Corp.; News items 2008-05-02
PIMCO Wants to Hire Wall Street Layoffs: Report: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Pacific Investment Management Co PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund, has asked between 5 and 10 Wall Street banks to let recently dismissed employees know that there are vacancies at PIMCO, the Financial Times reported. Quoting a...; Tags: Construction, bond fund, Financial Times, wall, bond, New York, Thomson Reuters Corp., analysis, job; News items 2008-05-01
Hansen Has a Great Quarter, but Not to Wall Street: After plowing through news reports after a company reports earnings, it's often refreshing to take a look at the Motley Fool. While wire services, newspapers and most stock-oriented blogs tend to focus on whether or not a company has "met Wall Street expectations" for the latest quarter, the Fool --...; Tags: Stock, Analyst, Investor, Wall, Hansen, Construction, Investment, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dan Mitchell; Blog posts 2008-05-09
Investors See Recession, Wall Street Depression: By Nichola Groom and Bernard Woodall BEVERLY HILLS, California (Reuters) - The U.S. economy may be in a funk, but that's nothing compared with the pall hanging over Wall Street. Some of the biggest U.S. investors said on Tuesday they expected the nation's...; Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial services, Investment, Beverly Hills, LBO, hedge fund, private equity, California, investor, conference, stock market, advisor, Thomson Reuters Corp., equity, banking, bank, health care, job, stock; News items 2008-04-29

Nassim Taleb Thinks Everyone Is Stupid: Wall Street's ability to plan for risk is a joke, as far as Nassim Nicholas Tasseb is concerned. Tasseb tells Fortune in Fear of a Black Swan that as "portfolio models got worse and worse in tracking reality, their use kept increasing as if nothing was...; Tags: Theory, Financial, Wall, Nassim Taleb, Wall Street, Tasseb, Financial Model, Construction, Financial Accounting, Finance, Michael Fitzgerald; Blog posts 2008-05-14
FedEx Cuts Profit Forecast on Fuel Costs: BOSTON (Reuters) - Package delivery company FedEx Corp FDX slashed its quarterly earnings forecast on Friday, blaming surging fuel prices and a drop in demand caused by the weak economy, sending its shares down 3 percent. Quarterly fuel costs for FedEx's fleets of...; Tags: Financial accounting, Federal Express, FedEx Corp., earnings forecast, Boston, consumer confidence, Thomson Reuters Corp., food, environment, financial; News items 2008-05-09
HP Seals EDS Deal; Services No. 2 Behind IBM; Can Hurd Run EDS Better?: Updated: Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd said Tuesday he plans to use a familiar playbook to integrate Electronic Data Systems: Leverage scale, squeeze costs — and underpromise and overdeliver. "We're running the playbook we know how to run very well," said Hurd, on a conference call with analysts....; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Earnings, IBM Corp., Non-GAAP Earning, GAAP, Financial Accounting, Construction, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-05-13
Yahoo Adjusted Profit Tops Wall St. Average: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters UK) - Yahoo Inc YHOO on Tuesday posted quarterly profit, excluding one-time items, at the top end of Wall Street's range of lowered forecasts, as it sought to bolster its case that Microsoft Corp's MSFT takeover bid undervalues it. Buoyed by a...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Wall, Construction, Benefits, Human Resources, Compensation, Microsoft Corp., Oukbs; News items 2008-04-22
Yahoo Adjusted Profit Tops Wall St. Average: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc YHOO on Tuesday posted quarterly profit, excluding one-time items, at the top end of Wall Street's range of lowered forecasts, as it sought to bolster its case that Microsoft Corp's MSFT takeover bid undervalues it....; Tags: takeover bid, quarterly profit, Yahoo! Inc., San Francisco, Thomson Reuters Corp., net income, Microsoft Corp., stock, advertisement, Internet; News items 2008-04-22
Yorkhill 'Ronald McDonald' Family House: A 24-bedroom, three-storey building, designed and built by Britspace Modular Building Systems provides much needed accommodation for parents of children at a Glasgow hospital. The steel modular design complemented traditional Glasgow architecture and included a curved frontage. The elevation also demonstrates the flexibility of the modular system to accommodate a...; Tags: Corus Group, Glasgow, accommodation, window; Case studies
Harleqin Court Covent Garden, London: Slimdek was chosen for this tight infill residential development of 42 luxury flats in central London, partly re-using the listed external walls of the existing building on the corner site. Excellent acoustic insulation of the Slimdeck floor was demonstrated by on-site tests. Steel framing is increasingly being used in city...; Tags: Corus Group, London, wall, storage; Case studies
Benenden Hospital, Kent: In January 1999, John McAslan Partners Architects began its development of master plan proposals and the design of a new clinic at Benenden Hospital in Kent. The new clinic is constructed on a steel frame with floors formed on precast concrete planks, with a wall of fixed steel louvers to...; Tags: Construction, Corus Group, wall, consulting; Case studies
Leeds Nuffield Hospital, West Yorkshire: Hospitals increasingly use steel-intensive construction for reasons familiar to designers and owners of commercial buildings: speed of construction, and flexibility of internal layout for current and future requirements. Long span composite construction, using cellular beams, meets strict vibration and acoustic standards for this major hospital project, incorporating residential care facilities,...; Tags: HEALTHCARE, Corus Group, hospital; Case studies
The End of the Pier Show, Southport Pier Lancashire: Southport pier is the second largest in the country and was built by engineer James Brunlees using his 'pile jetting' system. In response to steam passenger's complaints about the lack of shelter refreshment room was built at the end of the pier. In plan the pavilion is extremely simple, a...; Tags: Construction, Corus Group, pier, entrance, wall; Case studies
World Port Centre Rotterdam: The WPC was designed along the lines of 'twin towers'. The building consists of an 80m high four-sided tower with 22 floors and a 100m high semi-circular tower with 26 floors. On the top of the core building is the 'crows nest' fitted out with a completely glazed terrace, which...; Tags: Construction, Corus Group, wall; Case studies
UK's Largest Clinker Store Designed Using LUSAS: LUSAS Civil & Structural analysis software from FEA Ltd has been used by consulting engineers Oscar Faber to predict induced loadings and subsequent deflections on the wall and foundations of a 120000 tone capacity post tensioned clinker store for Rugby Cement. The store is part of a design and construct...; Tags: Construction, LUSAS, wall, consulting, analysis; Case studies
3 Day Comfort Cool High School Auditorium: A large city function was to be held at a local High School Auditorium. The city was faced with several challenges. The first challenge was the actual size of the event...2700 people for three days. The next challenge was the facility itself. The Auditorium was not air conditioned and with...; Tags: HVAC, Challenge, Construction; Case studies
The Perfect Mix Barnes West London: An ingenious solution persuaded planners to allow the construction of an uncompromisingly modern house on a backlands site in west London. Steel-frame construction was used to allow the layout of rooms to be altered relatively easily with minimum trouble and expense. In area the house is relatively small - 252...; Tags: Corus Group, wall; Case studies
Commissioning Helps Portland State University: When Portland State University PSU had to replace a chiller in its Science II building, they wanted to get to the end result - a smooth-running chiller system - as soon as possible. The Oregon Office of Energy assisted them in achieving their goals with support from the NW Energy...; Tags: Portland State University, HVAC, programming; Case studies