World Expos hold as a meeting point for people all over the world, where innovative ideas are shared and improve on issues that are internationally important, such as the global economy, or even an enhanced life for the world’s population. Expo 2020, which will be held in the heart of Dubai, will be one big step towards efficient development. The Expo will be held in the name of ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future.’ Their goal is to connect people and innovative ideas, leading the people of the world towards a better tomorrow. The Expo may have a gigantic effect on a country and its people, but it also has some downsides. Many employees in Dubai have a different opinion on how the Expo 2020 might affect the country. Abdulla Al Majeed, currently employed at Etisalat, argues how the Expo has its pros and cons. One benefit is that Dubai will have many foreign visitors which will cause the economy to bloom drastically. Dubai will have approximately 25 million visitors; therefore Dubai will make a large amount of money from all of these visitors. Another benefit is that it will provide approximately 270,000 new jobs in Dubai, as stated by the government of Dubai. While the Expo can be beneficial, one downside to it is that the traffic in Dubai will increase by a large amount. Since 25 million people will be visiting Dubai, all the roads will be packed. Mohammad Wael, head of Obaidulla contracting, gave up some of his free time to answer a couple of my question. He stated that it has been hard in the last couple of years for engineers in general. The work load they have been receiving was much lower than what engineers are accustomed to, but because of the Expo 2020 that has changed. Because of the Expo, new hotels, houses, roads, and anything an engineer is responsible for are going to be built. The only disadvantage he could think of is that since there will be many new houses and hotels, and since they are being built for visitors, after the end of the Expo, there will not be enough people to occupy all these houses. It is true that there will be large amount of people moving to live in Dubai, but the numbers will not be equivalent to the amount of visitors. Sara Haddad, employed as an architect, is a married woman and has two children of her own.
Originally, the Expo planners wanted countries to exhibit within "theme" pavilions, instead of in their own national pavilions. This would allow for more effective international coverag...
Brazil is bound to host in a two-year span the largest sport events in the World, The 2014 Soccer World Cup and The Olympic games in 2016. The country will attract a lot of investors looking for some brand exposure since the whole world will have their eyes turned to this tropical country. These events present opportunities for Brazil to benefit from tourism and prove to the world that it is ready to take its place as an important piece of global governance. Although Brazil has a flourishing economy, it still has many characteristics of a third world country. Social issues remain present in the country’s politics. There are several concerns regarding the capability of an emerging country to host events with that stature.
We shall start with the positive externality. Hosting the Olympics in Boston would bring benefit to the construction crews in Boston. The Olympics is an international event that attracts immense amount of visitors. In 20012, the London Olympics has attracted 680,000 over sea visitors1. Since these visitors are from oversea, they will require temporary residence for their stay in Boston. Thus leading to an increase in need of Hotels and Restaurants. Apart from the stay, setting up temporary
It is a fact that planning, organizing, executing, controlling and monitoring such a huge and mega project is not a piece of cake. Especially when it comes to the manage thousands of visitors and tourists in one specified location and venue is always a critical job for the organizers. More so, in recent years, the terrorism activities have increased to the greatest extent. Similar was the case with London which had experienced the 7/7 bombing few years before this mega event (House of Commons, 2007...
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... occurred somewhere else around the city. Furthermore, the number of generated new jobs is not big enough to support spending half a billion of the city’s funds in order to establish the new mega project. In addition, the demographic factors and the relation between the city and its surrounding counties will have a call on the feasibility of the project and the projected revenues that may come turning the city into a tourist and sports fans' hub. Perhaps the only proponents for such a project are the local coalition groups that may influence the city to fund the project in order for their businesses to revive and in order to make use of the public funds to create new business for themselves. In sum, publicly financing a new stadium is not recommended, and their effect on the local economy is poor enough not to boost local economies and local government revenues.
This year i.e. 2008, Olympics will be hosted by China in Beijing and it is assumed that industry and people in general will benefit immensely in terms of more employment opportunities and the effects of the same will last longer. It had also given a significant boost in construction activity. With hosting of the Olympic Games in Beijing it is foreseen that the tourist arrivals in China will increase considerably well beyond 2009.
Gibling C. 2013. Construction Process and Post Construction Impacts of the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Memorial University.
Dubai is assigned to host the prestigious World Expo in 2020, a huge global event that acts as a stage to showcase new innovations and inventions that are mainly concerned with finding solutions to worldwide issues. Expos are usually set to be held every 5 years lasting for a duration of 6 months, where different countries can participate as well as private companies and organizations.
In conclusion, civil engineers have a responsibility to deal with current issues in a professional and ethical manner for the benefit of society. The topics discusses included: high energy consumption of buildings, the need for efficient water resources, transportation planning, poor infrastructures doomed to failure, the need to have higher standards to become a licensed professional engineer, how globalization has affected all engineers, and the need to have more professional use advance engineering informatics. All these subjects were pondered about how these challenges can be overcome are there effective methods that engineers can apply today. Unfortunately, not all problems are easy to handle.
The eight billion initial investments in the high-speed rail are expected to produce about 320,000 jobs and roughly thirteen billion dollars in economic benefit. These include construction and operation jobs, as well as manufacturing and supply chain options. By increasing mobility while decreasing crowding and spreading, high-speed rail makes our country more competitive while simultaneously creating economic development. The High Speed Rail could boost the economy and could provide alternate transportation, therefore it should be built.
Generally, infrastructure is divided into two main parts which involves hard and soft infrastructures. According to UNWTO (United Nations World Trade Organisation), (2011), the enlargement of tourist arrivals, went up by approximately 7% in 2010 to 940 million, has led to increase in the number of new and state-of-the-art hotels, restaurants, airports and other tourist apartments. The rising share of amenities illustrates the improvement of hard infrastructure caused by more tourist number. Other contributions of the industry to the former accessibility of electricity and water, better road systems and transport services are also involved in the related expansion of economic activity (cited in Boz, 2011). Besides that, tourism offers numerous positive impacts to the latter, according to OECD, (2014) “soft infrastructure” can be defined as the creation of events and spaces which shows the spirit and unity of that country’s culture. These forms of infrastructure programmes have been applying to both urban and rural areas in order to make the place more well-known and tourists attractive. For example, in Australia, 2007 several events including the Booktown Festival were held to develop marketing strategies and increase tourist numbers. The results were more satisfactory than expected with place-branding advantages, noticeable rural regeneration, growing tourist numbers and
Have you ever wanted to see the world’s richest country? That is covered with exotic beaches. Food that will defiantly cure your taste buds. Luxurious cars everywhere you turned your head. Seeing different people from all over the world coming to visit. A place that’ll for sure entertain you. To get a taste of this lifestyle that’s overseas, you need to visit Dubai.
Development of megacities is increasing. This can be seen that 28 cities of 28 countries become megacities in 21 century. We focus on three kinds of development in megacities; they are economic development, human development, and sustainable development. Economic development concern on the improvement of economic activities to invest the consumption, human development concern on the individual matter such as self-development, the relations among human beings in all aspects, and human rights, and sustainable development concerns on economic, environmental and social objectives that should be balance between the needs of present and needs of future. And Jakarta is one of the examples of development of megacities in developing countries.
Civil Engineering improves daily. New processes and methods are always being developed to make projects more accurate, easier, and more efficient. The amount of training, number of engineers, and the average salaries will begin increasing as these developments are accepted. Civil Engineering will be around as long as there are objects that need to be constructed or updated. Throughout the years, the demand may increase or decrease. No matter what the future supplies, Civil Engineers will be considered the heart of many projects and solved problems.