Forge Property Partnerships – top property conference back on the 7th February 2012
Forge London is coming round again – 7th Feb at the Congress Centre, Great Russell St. Having attended the inaugural event and missed the second, I made sure to register early for this one. I think you’ll struggle to find a more valuable conference and networking event for built environment professionals – top speakers and attendees. Not sure about availability of spaces but if you can get there it will be valuable – http://bit.ly/forgelondon Chair... Read More
Turkey – a Growth Market for Development & Construction
If you have international growth ambitions, Turkey would seem an interesting place to start. The country stands at the gateway to several of the resource-rich, cash-generating, emerging economies across central Asia, including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. It is also uniquely placed to handle business in the Iraqi construction market – a country that is likely to see the most significant concentration of growth of any country in... Read More
The Russia Thing – an architect abroad
Steve Brown, Swanke Hayden Connell Architects Russia has been, and always will be to many in business, an object of wary curiosity. Visiting in 1992, a traveller would likely be met by some bleak realities – crumbling housing and infrastructure, infuriating beaurocracy attached to the simplest operations and teenage conscripts in over-sized military uniform manning the corridors of the empty, ancient airport. Nearly twenty years on, Russia... Read More
