LAHORE  - An inaugural ceremony of a three-day Build Tech Pakistan 2013-International Building & Construction Technology, Materials, Property, Stone, Interiors & Architecture Exhibition and Conference will be held here on May 24 at the Expo Centre. The stone expo titled STONECA will ...

ISLAMABAD : Under the implementation of the government’s restructuring plan, the HMC has entered into collaboration arrangements with several leading companies of the world specializing in various process technologies for different oil and gas processing plants and production equipment. The ...

Attock - Construction of Kalabagh Dam (KBD) is the need of the hour and without its construction we can neither get rid of the energy crisis and nor can put the country on the track of prosperity and development.Engineer Jameel Ahmad Malik, chairman Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) and candidate ...

lahore - salman abduhu - The water sector experts and well-known engineers of the country Saturday unanimously advocated early construction of Kalabagh Dam, saying that Pakistan’s economy has been facing a loss of Rs132 billion annually due to inordinate delay in execution of the ...

ISLAMABAD - Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) has started construction work on Darawat dam and Nai Gaj dam in Sindh province.According to an official of WAPDA, the dams would irrigate over barren land of Hyderabad and Dadu. The construction of site camps is completed including soil ...

RAWALPINDI - Inordinate delay in the construction of overhead bridge at Rehmanabad Chowk after the Sixth Road Flyover has added to the miseries of the people.The project of overhead bridge at Rehmanabad Chowk was Okayed with the approval of flyover at sixth road at an estimated cost of Rs24million ...

DHAKA (AFP) - Bangladesh will start building its first nuclear power plant by October this year after signing a loan deal with Russia to fund the construction, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced Wednesday.The Rooppur nuclear power plant in the country’s northwest will have two reactors ...

KARACHI - The Administrator of Karachi Metropolitan Corporation Hussain Syed said construction of 50-bed hospital each in Gulistan-e-Jauhar and Federal B-Area Block-13 was underway. Construction of both the hospitals in current fiscal year would be completed to provide better healthcare ...

ISLAMABAD  – Sub-divisional magistrate (Sadr) Islamabad has banned any kind of construction within the limits of sub-sectors G-14/1, 2 and 3 and G-15/3 Islamabad for a period of two months. Under the ban, concreted and earthen constructions and transportation i.e. loading and unloading ...

RAWALPINDI - Movement of traffic as well as people has become very risky and dangerous in Jorian and Liaquat Colony, the areas of PP-6 constituency of PML-N MPA Chaudhry Sarfraz Afzal, as sand and other building material have been dumped in the middle of the roads.The material consisting sand, ...

ISLAMABAD – Lack of ring road has compounded traffic problems in the federal capital. The increased inflow of heavy vehicles in the federal capital has led to un-relented traffic jams on every avenue thus driving the common man to a perpetual state of embarrassment. “We are government ...

ISLAMABAD  – Construction work on roads in Sector I-11/2 has been stopped due another clash between the Capital Development Authority (CDA) and the affectees.According to sources, the contract of construction of roads in Sector I-11/1 and 2 was awarded in October 2011 and the work was to ...

ISLAMABAD – Decision has been taken to initiate construction work on 2,896 flats project in sector G-13 within 15 days. The approval for starting the work was accorded in a meeting of joint venture company of Federal Government Employees Housing Foundation and M/S Progressive Motels ...

LAHORE - The participants of a seminar Tuesday stressed the need for building huge water reservoirs including Kalabagh Dam to mitigate flood disasters as without building reservoirs country cannot cope with the post-flood devastation completely. “Due to government’s silence over ...

RAWALPINDI - Residents of Dhok Hassu have expressed concern against the slow paced construction work of Nullah saying this state of affairs had added to their miseries. The residents said that the construction work was causing traffic mess in the area, as the traffic remains blocked for several ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER RENALA KHURD - The GT Road from Kalma Chowk to Renala bypass is in dilapidated condition and broken from several places. MNAs and MPAs who have been continuously electing from here since decades had promised to construct it but all their promises are mere claims. The Highway ...

KARAK - Senior Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bashir Ahmad Bilour inaugurated the pavement of streets and a market in district Karak. Addressing a public gathering here at Town Hall, he said the restoration of peace in the province was the result of the struggles of Awami National Party government. ...

SIALKOT (PPI) The construction of an international standard Tanneries Zone has been started on 384 acres near village Khambraanwala-Sialkot (adjacent to Sialkot International Airport) with an estimated cost of Rs 780 million, with a sole aim to purge the export-oriented Sialkot city from tanneries ...

LAHORE Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has announced that a state-of-the-art liver transplant and institute of urology to be established at the place of Zeenat Lab at Lawrence Road. He was presiding over a meeting here on Thursday, which was attended by Chairman Planning and ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) Small Dam Organisation (SDO) has failed to construct Dadocha Dam after lapse of one decade as land grabbers and some influential housing societies purchased the land on the proposed site. In the year 2000, the Punjab government asked Small Dam Organization to prepare ...

LAHORE Representatives of China State Construction Company Tan Guofu and Frank met Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif here on Friday. Cooperation in infrastructure sector and project of southern loop of Lahore Ring Road were discussed in the meeting. Chairman Planning and Development ...

LAHORE - Provincial Minister for Food and Industry Ch Abdul Ghafoor Khan has said that Rs 200 million would be spent on the construction of silos throughout the province. According to an official handout, the Minister stated this while presiding over a departmental meeting here on Wednesday. He ...

ISLAMABAD (PR) - The opening ceremony of the two-day international workshop on Construction Industry in Pakistan: Issues & Practices was held at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) here the other day. The workshop was designed to promote state-of-the-art construction ...

LAHORE (PR) - The worlds largest trade fair for the construction sector, Bauma 2010 would be held from 19th to 25th April 2010 at the New Munich Trade Fair Centre. A record 555,000 square metres and more of indoor and outdoor exhibition space are being dedicated to a display of the latest products ...

LAHORE- After international competitive bidding, construction work on Diamer-Basha Dam Project will start in October this year. The project, on its completion, will store 6.4 million acres feet (MAF) of water for agriculture besides generating 4500 MW of low-cost hydel electricity. WAPDA Chairman ...

RAWALPINDI (APP) - The residents of Satellite Town here on Tuesday urged the Chief Justice of Pakistan and the Chief Minister to issue orders for immediate stoppage of illegal construction work being carried out at the Chinar Park. The residents said the park is a part of Satellite Towns master ...

KARACHI - The 4th International Conference on Construction Industry (ICCI-2009) with the theme of Overcome the Barriers and Meet the Challenges of 21st Century was held on Saturday at Karachi Expo Centre. The conference was inaugurated by Zubair Motiwala, Advisor to CM & Chairman, Board of ...

KARACHI- Defence Housing Authority has undertaken a huge construction project, regarding this is the Defence Authority Creek Club which plans to provide lodging facilities to its members along with changing the fa_ade. For some time, the authorities felt the dire need for a guest house and ...

ISLAMABAD (Online) - Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas has said that the construction Diamir Bhasha Dam would start in the second quarter of 2010, while the repatriation of families to be affected by it would start this year. He said this during a meeting of National Assembly ...

KARACHI - The sale of mild steel has decreased up to 50 per cent in the last three months as the construction industry is facing hard times, The Nation has learnt. It was leant that the selling price of mild steel, which reached up to Rs 80,000 per metric ton last year, had now decreased to 45,000 ...