Caterpillar stops for four weeks
Construction industry firm Caterpillar will stop production in Leicestershire for four weeks due to a drop in orders.
Bets are off for Macau gambling boom
Macau's huge construction boom, linked to surging gambling revenues, is grinding to a halt as some 12,000 workers are laid off and projects stop.
Argentine builders 'strike oil'
Construction workers in Argentina find oil - of the olive variety - as they unearth a colonial-era Spanish ship believed to be 250 years old.