The movie ‘The Towering Inferno’ tells the harrowing tale of an iconic building design gone wrong. In the world of Facilities Management (FM) one cannot help but wonder where the FM team was in the design of this fictional building?
p>The movie ‘The Towering Inferno’ tells the harrowing tale of an iconic building design gone wrong. In the world of Facilities Management (FM) one cannot help but wonder where the FM team was in the design of this fictional building?Buildings
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A new range of hydraulic clamshell buckets is now available for Bobcat E55W, E60 and E80 excavators. In addition, the range of dipperstick-mounted hydraulic clamp attachments for the company’s excavator range is now complete with new attachments for the E80 excavator model.
Zimbabwe property developer takes up housing project
The initial construction phase of the Tynwald housing project has already begun and was expected to be completed by 2012. (Image source: indi.ca/Flickr)
Zimbabwean property developer Datco Group has taken over the Tynwald South housing project that was being sponsored by the ZimTrust Housing Finance
Nigerian village to have 1,000 more houses within a year
Construction of the units will take place at Dungal village in the Bauchi State in Nigeria. (Image source: indi.ca/Flickr)
The Bauchi State government in Nigeria said it was collaborating with a firm of private estate developers, Mubel Company, to build 1,000 houses in the same village within 12 months
MTN constructs ICT centre in Ghana
MTN has partnered with the United Nations Development Programme to bring up the facility in Ghana. (Image source: www.mtn.com)
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