More than 1,500 exhibitors are expected to take part in the annual Salon du Meuble de Paris (Paris Furniture Exhibition) to be held from January 10-14 next year at Paris Expo - Porte de Versailles.

Leading civil engineering and construction companies and suppliers of related products and services are expected to take part in the Intertunnel 2001 show to be organised in Basel, Switzerland.

Tallest building plan to go ahead Shanghai is going ahead with its plans to build the world's tallest building despite the September 11 terrorist attacks which brought down New York's World Trade Center.

The American Institute of Steel Construction Inc (AISC) has formed a special task force to investigate the structural collapses of the World Trade Center buildings in New York following the terrorist attacks there.