WORLD NEWS
2013
MS Africa & Middle East
December 9 – 12, 2013
Cairo, Egypt
2014
Intermat Middle East
January 14 – 16, 2014
Abu Dhabi, UAE
World of Concrete
January 21 – 24, 2014
(Seminars 20 – 24 January)
Las Vegas, US
ConExpo-Con/Agg 2014
March 4 – 8, 2014
Las Vegas, US
SMOPYC 2014
April 1 – 5, 2014
Zaragoza, Spain
Samoter 2014
May 8 – 11, 2014
Verona Exhibition Centre
Verona, Italy
APEX (Access Platform
Exhibition)
June 24-26, 2014
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
International Rental
Exhibition (IRE)
June 24-26, 2014
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hillhead 2014
June 24 – 26, 2014
Hillhead Quarry
Buxton, UK
Bauma China 2014
November 25-28, 2014
Shanghai, China
bC India 2014
December 15-18, 2014
Delhi, India
EXHIBITION DIARY
7
december 2013
international
construction
CHINA
The new terminal at
Shenzhen Bao’an International
Airport, Guangdong, China, opened
on 28 November, 2013. Designed by
architects Massimiliano and Doriana
Fuksas, the project the 1.5 km long
structure features internal and
external double ‘skin’ honeycomb
that wraps the structure, with roof
spans of up to 80 m. Completed
within three years, the terminal
covers 500,000 m
2
and is the largest
public building in Shenzhen. It will
increase the capacity of the airport
by +58%, allowing it to handle up to
45 million passengers per year.
US
Accelerating
cement
consumption
The Portland Cement Association
(PCA) expects the US to consume
some 80 million tonnes of cement
this year, a +4.5% increase on 2012.
Its forecast for next year is a further
+8.1% increase to 86 million
tonnes.
However, it cautioned that the
domestic construction market
could be hampered by continued
political deadlock, which would
have a knock-on effect to consumer
confidence.
PCA group vice president and
chief economist Edward Sullivan
said, “American consumers love
drama. Moreover, Congress knows
how to create it, with more on the
way when the debt ceiling talks
resume in early in 2014.
“Each time the political circus on
Capitol Hill addresses extensions
of the debt limit, budget approvals
or the fiscal cliff, it harms the
burgeoning economic momentum.”
Consumer
and
business
confidence is a key ingredient for
stronger economic gains, said Mr
Sullivan. He said that while the
economy is positioned for better
growth, it needs consumers and
businesses to start reinvesting
capital to realise this potential.
By 2018, the end of the PCA’s
forecast, cement consumption is
expected to reach nearly 119 million
tonnes, roughly -3% below the last
cyclical peak in 2005. This implies a
14-year recovery, it said.
SOUTH KOREA
New CEO for Doosan
Infracore
Scott Park has been named president
& CEO of Doosan Infracore
Construction Equipment (DICE).
He will replace Tony Helsham, who
retires in February, having held the
position since 2010.
Mr Park was most
recently global vice
president of strategy,
manufacturing strategy
and
total
quality
management
for
DICE, a position he
held since early 2012.
He previously worked
at Volvo Construction Equipment,
a company Mr Helsham was
president of from 2000 to 2008.
Doosan manufactures compact
construction equipment under the
Bobcat brand as well
as heavier construction
machinery under its
own marquee. Other
segments within the
company
include
Doosan
Infracore
Portable Power and the
Montabert and Geith
range of attachments.
Europe’s architects are starting
to see signs of a recovery, with
British architects enjoying their
best quarter since 2008. Almost
60% saw an increase in their order
books for the third quarter, ended
30 September 2013, according to a
market research survey from Arch-
Vision.
The research company predicts a
+2% rise of the UK market in 2013
and an increase of +1% in 2014 and
2015.
The
Q3
2013
European
Architectural Barometer report
also saw +35% of architects in the
Netherlands reporting growing
order books, while France and
Spain also showed slight indications
of improvement. All three markets
are expected to recover by 2015.
EUROPE
Mixed fortunes for architects
A third of architects in Belgium
reported order book growth in
Q3 2013, while 26% of Polish
architects also reported growth.
Some 42% of Polish architects did
report declines in their order books,
with 31% expecting an empty order
book within the next 12 months.
Germany continued to offer the
best market conditions, with 31%
of architects reporting growth,
while at the other end of the scale
Italy had a very difficult quarter
again, with only 6% of its architects
seeing growth. Arch-Vision predicts
the Italian market will shrink by as
much as -14% in 2013.
The European Architectural
Barometer report is a quarterly piece
of research among 1,600 architects
in eight European countries.
