All articles by Roxane McMeeken – Page 14
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FeaturesFalling idol: Is there a downturn in Dubai?
If you thought the golden city of Dubai would be the saviour of the construction industry, think again
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FeaturesGulf State Building awards 2008
The first Gulf States Building Awards were held last week at a glittering evening ceremony in Dubai’s Madinat Jumeirah hotel, where the award-winners hobnobbed with top English rugby players
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NewsVideos of the Gulf State Building Awards 2008
Watch winners, judges (and stars of English rugby) at a glittering night to highlight the region's finest people and projects
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FeaturesJust landed: Jon Emery moves to Dubai
Jon Emery spent 19 years at Hammerson before announcing a shock departure this summer to join the board of major UAE shopping mall developer Majid Al Futtaim. He landed in Dubai in October…
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FeaturesGloomwatch - Building's industry panel assesses the downturn
In the past few months, the construction industry has become an anxious and uncertain place. To help us make sense of it, we’ve asked a student, a subcontractor, a small builder, an architect, an entrepreneur, a forecaster and a consultant to form a panel.
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NewsWhat does Obama's victory mean for construction?
These are the pledges Barack Obama made in the run-up to his historic election victory
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Foster Wheeler to oversee new £2.5bn Libyan refinery
Engineer's Milan office will project manage construction of Zorco's 200,000-barrels-a-day facility
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FeaturesMcCain and Obama: Where do they stand on construction?
They’re the two most talked about men in the world, but where do John McCain and Barack Obama stand on the issues that matter to the construction industry? With four days to go until election day, Roxane McMeeken and Emily Wright find out what they’ve pledged
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FeaturesThe incident on 51st: Crane safety in New York
Since January, nine people have died in crane collapses in New York. The response? Tough safety rules, which the city council says will prevent death, and the industry says will make life impossible.
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NewsUAE trials £1.5bn PPP scheme
Abu Dhabi is trialling its first PPP deal on a £1.5bn project to upgrade a “dangerous” highway
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NewsMace’s price for building Shard rises by about £85m
Main contractor on landmark project offers guaranteed maximum price in region of £435m
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NewsVideo: On site at Dubai World Trade Centre with WSP
Building speaks to WSP associate director Bart Leclercq about progress on the redevelopment of the World Trade Centre area in Dubai
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FeaturesTop 250 Consultants 2008: How to survive the downturn
You don’t have to be Charles Darwin to know that survival is about adapting to your circumstances better than your rivals. Roxane McMeeken looks at how firms have changed their strategies since our last consultants survey, when the market was booming
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Tom Cruise: the man in Atlantis?
The Atlantis hotel in Dubai is teaming with marine life and one of Hollywood's biggest fish may be spending new year there
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How green is Dubai's Jumeira Gardens?
Meraas is proud of its scheme's green credentials, but how sustainable can development in a hostile desert climate ever really be?
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Dubai's reality gap
En route to Cityscape, nothing about Dubai is quite what this visitor expected
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FeaturesExpat survival guide to Libya
Tourism and retail are set for a development boom, but leave your tight trousers at home – and stay off the roads
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FeaturesSun, sea and sandcastles
The British seaside is back – after all, who wants to go abroad with summers like ours…? To celebrate, we challenged some of our finest construction minds (plus sundry offspring) to a giant sandcastle building showdown. Roxane McMeeken and Katie Puckett commentate on the action.
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Millbridge expands into Middle East
Project managment firm plans to open offices Dubai and Abu Dhabi focusing on banking, retail and leisure sectors
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FeaturesBlood, sweat and fixed gears: Building’s cycling track day
When dozens of the industry’s most fanatical cyclists descended on a London velodrome for Building’s inaugural Track Day, an afternoon of frenetic racing ensued – stirring memories of a certain sporting extravaganza held in the stadium 60 years earlier …