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unusual facts about construction industry



Pipe Line Contractors Association

The Pipe Line Contractors Association (PICA) is a petroleum industry trade group created in 1948 to handle labor relations in the pipeline construction industry.

Quba

Quba has enjoyed strong economic growth over the last decade, much of it spurred by tourism and the construction industry.


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Alexander Tamanian

He was the chief engineer of the local Council of People's Commissars and was a member of the CEC of the Armenian SSR (1925–1936), sponsored the construction industry, designed the layouts of towns and villages including Leninakan (now Gyumri) (1925), Stepanakert (1926), Nor-Bayazet (now Gavar) and Ahta-ahpara (both in 1927), Echmiadzin (1927–1928), and others.

Ancón

Ancon, a United Kingdom company that manufactures steel products for the construction industry

Ancon

Ancon Building Products is a company that designs and manufactures Stainless steel products for the construction industry founded and still based in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

B91

Law, according to the Uniclass (Unified Classification for the Construction Industry) codes

Bhadohi

Yogesh Tiwari awarded by Dr. C. Rangarajan with Vishwakarma Award as "An Outstanding Technologist" by Construction Industry Development Council and Planning commission of India - Delhi" are native of Bhadohi.

Bloch MB.81

The aircraft was built without any assistance from the government, but an initial order of 20 was placed by the Ground French Forces (the French Armée de l'Air was founded in 1933), and it was one of the aircraft that relaunched Marcel Bloch in the aeronautical construction industry.

George Brumwell

He served on a number of construction industry bodies and on the Health and Safety Commission.

Gérald Tremblay

During a hearing at the Charbonneau Commission on October 1, 2012, construction industry contractor Lino Zambito alleged that Tremblay's party, Union Montreal received a sum equivalent to 3% of the value of sewerage rehabilitation contracts awarded by the City of Montreal to a mafia-linked cartel.

Jack Zunz

He held a number of appointments outside his firm including being Chairman of the Trustees of the Architectural Association and President of CIRIA (Construction Industry Research and Information Association).

Lugner

Richard “Mörtel” Lugner, successful Austrian entrepreneur in the construction industry, a Viennese society figure, former political candidate not affiliated with any of the Austrian political parties and former husband of Christina “Mausi” Lugner

Metso

Its biggest competitors in the mining industry include FLSmidth, Outotec and ThyssenKrupp, and in the construction industry Terex, Atlas Copco, Caterpillar and Sandvik.

NECA

NECA Show, electrical construction industry’s trade show since 1901

Preston Group

Initially, the Group hired large mobile cranes and scaffolding equipment to the Australian construction industry.

Rafael del Pino

Rafael del Pino Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish rail entrepreneur, son of the construction industry entrepreneur

Utility knife

In British, Australian and New Zealand English, along with Dutch and Austrian German, a utility knife frequently used in the construction industry is known as a Stanley knife.

Valmai Pidgeon

Florence Valmai Miller Pidgeon AM (born c. 1927) is a leading figure in the Arts and the construction industry in Queensland.