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international
construction
View ICEF awards
online
Videos from first International Construction
Economic Forum now available on
.
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rookfield Multiplex’s JWMarriott Marquis Hotel in Dubai, UAE, won
the inaugural International Construction Project of the Year award at
the first International Construction Economic Forum (ICEF), and
video coverage of the conference is available at the KHL.com Video Zone.
The winners of the inaugural ICEF awards were revealed at a gala dinner
held on 21 November at the Hotel Okura in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The International Construction Project of the Year award recognised a
scheme of international significance worth US$ 100 million or more. The
JW Marriott Marquis Hotel in Dubai, UAE is a twin tower complex that, at
355 m high, breaks the Guinness World Record for the World’s tallest
dedicated hotel.
It was selected from a shortlist of five, and beat the Cognizant Technology
Park in Chennai, India, from Larsen & Toubro, the Shard in London, UK,
from the Mace Group, the Kattupalli Port in India from Larsen &Toubro and
the Vidin-Calafat Bridge in Bulgaria, from FCC.
Meanwhile, the winner of the construction equipment innovation award
was Caterpillar, for its 336E H hybrid excavator, and the winner of the
construction equipment innovation award for component or sub-system
design was Liebherr, for its PowerBoom technology for crawler cranes (see
pages 14 and 15).
To view a video of the awards ceremony, go to
com/videozone and search for ICEF. More videos from the 20
to 22 November conference, including speaker presentations,
are also available online. Use a smart phone to scan the QR
code to go straight to the Video Zone.
Demolition
summit
presentations
Full coverage, including articles and
videos, of the World Demolition
Summit and the 2013 World
Demolition Awards is now available
on KHL.com.
Attracting
300
international
delegates, the event took place at
the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky,
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on 31
October.
Go to
to view footage of the speaker
presentations, including demolition
case studies from Robert Klotzbach
from Environmental Resources
Management and Dick Green,
from IndEx independent explosives
engineers, UK.
Other speaker videos include the
presentation by Simone Bruni,
president of DemoDiva Demolition,
economist Dominic Swords, as
well as commercial director at
Delair CFD Patrick Villard and
operations director at Fabio Bruno
Construccoes, Fabio Bruno Pinto.
Meanwhile, the 2013 World
Demolition Awards took place in the
evening, and celebrated the best that
the demolition industry has offered
its clients in the construction sector
over the 12 month period from June
2012 to June 2013.
The top Award, Contract of the
Year, went to Scottish contractor
Hunter Demolition for the work it
carried out during the demolition of
a former Bank of Scotland building
in the heart of the city of Glasgow,
UK.
To view a full list of the evening’s
award winners, together with further
in-depth coverage of the event, go to
and search for “World
Demolition Summit”. Scan the QR
code at the end of this article to go
straight to the award winners’ story.
The event is organised by
KHL Group in
partnership
with
the
European
D e m o l i t i o n
Association.
Monthly podcast
Every issue of
iC
is accompanied by a podcast, which can be downloaded
from iTunes for free. Alternatively you can listen to it on the Podcast page of
KHL.com, or click on the image below in the iPad edition of the magazine.
Each podcast sees
iC
editor Chris Sleight and deputy editor Helen Wright
discuss key stories, including the news making the headlines at the front of
the magazine to more in-depth discussions stemming from features.
Go to ‘Podcasts’ under the ‘Audio
& Video’ tab of
or
scan the QR code to access the latest
edition The online
archive at
com now stretches
back more than
two years.
