Not content with building the largest building in the World, Russia has unveiled plans for an even more ambitious project in the black Sea.
Clearly, the Russians have decided that Dubai cannot have all the glory and are determined to show they can go one better than the World project.
Federation Island will be built in the shape of the Russian Federation and will attempt to re-create the country’s geographical features, including rivers and mountains.
The plan is to complete construction before the 2014 winter Olympics. Eventually, the accommodation available will include a wide variety of structures including luxury villas, beach houses, apartments, shops and offices. Plus, we assume, a few hotels. There are plans for dunes, grassland, small forests and of course, Oceanside properties.
Federation island has been designed by Dutch architect, Erick van Egeraat and will be overseen by M-Industries of St. Petersburg. The construction will be undertaken by Witteveen & Bos and the initial dredging by Van Oord Dredging and Marine. The Abu Dhabi company, Allied Business Consultants is investing somewhere in the region of $6.2 billion, although they might find working with Russian labor a little different to their previous experiences.
Sochi itself is a well established resort city with a humid subtropical climate - almost unheard of for Russia. It’s fair to say the infra structure is not quite up to Olympic requirements and the Russian government is scrambling to bring them up to date with an investment of over $1 billion on the electrical system alone
People all around the world have a fascination with the building construction process. Just visit almost any new building site and there will invariably be groups of people (usually men, it must be said) watching the progress of a particular building.
This blog is dedicated to that same fascination. We watch construction projects globally.
Another recent phenomonon since the advent of readily available digital video cameras, is the appearance of time lapse video watching the construction progress. This is a selection of time lapse videos taken from YouTube showing the development of a variety of buildings, mostly skyscrapers. The bigger they are, the stronger the fascination. the Japanese seem to be leading the world in this at the moment and some of these videos were started many years ago but it is spreading.
Continue reading ‘Watching Buildings go up’
Dredging in progress
Nakheel, the UAE government owned developer announced this Thursday that they have finished work on the 17-mile long breakwater that will protect The World development.
The World is a man-made archipelago of 300 islands off the coast of Dubai. The final stone brought the total amount of stone laid up to 34 million tonnes. The Islands themselves are spread over an area 4.3 long by 5.6 miles wide.
The director of the project, Hamza Mustafa said the land reclamation required dredging 320 million cubic meters of sand from the sea bed and the creation of the breakwater.
The Dredging process
The next phase of the project will be to hand over the individual Islands to developers for the construction and infrastructure to be built.
Whilst the newspapers are predicting doom, gloom and a continued downturn for U.K. property, plans for several up-market high rise condominium buildings in major British cities seem to be progressing nicely.
King Edward Tower, Liverpool
Continue reading ‘Britain Gets Taller’
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