Building and Construction

The prototype Volvo HX04 is not the only first for the company when it comes to articulated haulers. It invented the world’s first ADT in 1966. The truck was given the nickname “Gravel Charlie” and was developed at the company’s facility in Braås, Sweden. That’s the same place Volvo is developing the hydrogen hauler, which has been given the nickname “Electric Charlie.” ...

The construction of ground-breaking buildings (nearly) always relies upon tried and tested reinforced concrete structures. Such was the case as well with the Freiberg high-rise project. Due to the required earthquake safety, 98% of the shell of the tower was designed as a reinforced concrete structure, with only a few additional pre-fabricated reinforced concrete element...

Several ideas for making the Martian surface more habitable have been put forward5,6,7,8, but they all involve massive environmental modification that will be well beyond human capability for the foreseeable future9. Here, we present a new approach to this problem. We show that widespread regions of the surface of Mars could be made habitable to photosynthetic life in th...

A collaboration between ULC Robotics and SGN, one of the largest gas network companies in the U.K., has reached the halfway point in a project looking to create an autonomous robotic system that can be used for roadway excavation projects within the utilities sector. The Robotic Roadworks and Excavation System (RRES) project, which began in early 2018, combines a powe...

It will carry out public consultation about the scheme ahead of submitting the application. The new proposal would see 200 more beds than had been proposed in an earlier proposal, which was refused by Fife Council planners mainly due to concerns about flood risk. The proposed development is the centrepiece of a £70m investment in student accommodation to create 1,100 ...

Wates has already been working for the council to develop the construction programme and help get the designs through planning. The centre is being built for the 2022 Commonwealth Games. It will have a 50-metre Olympic-sized competition swimming pool, a 25-metre diving pool and a studio pool along with seating for 1,000 spectators. Construction work is expected to ...

Extraspace Solutions will supply 200 homes by 2021 to the Pan-London Accommodation Collaborative Enterprise (PLACE). Extraspace Solutions will design and manufacture PLACE’s modular housing units, which have been specified with the quality of permanent housing but can be relocated to a different site as and when required. London boroughs will use the units as temporar...

Help is on the way for structural engineers driving toward improving the efficiency, reliability and resilience of buildings through performance-based wind design. And though it could take a decade or more for PBWD to become mainstream for practitioners, the authors of the first two PBWD documents, both debuting this year, are hailing them as milestones. “PBWD provide...

Following a major review by its new leadership, London’s much delayed and over budget Crossrail project is now set for completion, not last December as planned, but sometime in the six months between October 2020 and March 2021. Two new official reports have identified management failures as the root cause for the $22.7-billion project’s poor performance. Crossrail Lt...

The plant was built with an investment of €50m ($60m) and currently employs 50 people. The company plans to create another 50 jobs by expanding the facility in 2020. The new plant allows the company to develop innovative products and meet the growing demand for sustainable foods made from natural ingredients. It will also increase the company’s footprint in the US nat...

Located in Madison, the project is being funded by the State of Wisconsin, UW-Madison and 200 individual donors. A ground-breaking ceremony for the project was held in September 2018, while construction is expected to be completed by January 2021. The Babcock Hall dairy plant will be renovated to enable it to serve as a laboratory and learning space for students, rese...

The first MoU is signed with Port Singapore Authority International Pte Ltd (PSA), one of the largest port operators in the world, Singapore’s National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC), and metal additive specialist 3D MetalForge Pte Ltd. In the second MoU, the MPA enters into an agreement with NAMIC and the Singapore Shipping Association (SSA). Re...

The building, which will be 40,000m² will be one of the largest wooden buildings in Asia upon completion in 2021. Global engineering and infrastructure company Aurecon will deliver civil and structural engineering services, including consultancy services for the demolition of the existing Innovation Centre, conceptualisation and design of all structural elements and c...

Offshore contractor Seaway Heavy Lifting awarded the EPCI contract to Ampelmann to design and create an angular boom tip. This will allow secure connection at difficult angles for safe gangway transfer between the 5,000 tonne heavy lift vessel (HLV) Oleg Strashnov and the 2,500 tonne HLV Stanislav Yudin to install 84 individual wind turbines. Conventional gangway tips...

The $45 million expansion includes three new buildings: a state–of-the-art four-story administrative building; a warehouse and parts distribution center to meet current and future requirements; and a modernized production and workshop facility intended to support the company’s cranes, construction, and concrete divisions. The project will add more than 251,000 square ...

Plans call for 28,216 fixed seats - with a total capacity of 30,842 - under a permanent translucent glass roof. Sliding glass exterior walls will allow the outside to be enjoyed inside the building. The playing field will be an artificial surface. "I'm proud and incredibly excited to present our vision of a ballpark and one that is of, by and for the people of Tampa B...

Approximately 100 new jobs will be created related to the production of modular buildings for the company's first project, set to begin as early as November 2018. Skender expects to have prototype modules ready for viewing and demonstration in September. The firm is already taking orders and developing designs for a number of multifamily and healthcare projects in the...

In effect, Hoover Dam would become a gigantic battery. The "living" power capacity storage - called a pumped energy storage facility - would solve some of Southern California's current and future power needs, without relying on the limited durability of lithium-ion batteries used to store power elsewhere. When built in the early 1930s, at a cost of $128 million, th...

The new facility is being developed in partnership with Dairygold, a dairy co-operative based in Ireland that manufactures and markets TINE’s Jarlsberg® cheese under a licence agreement. TINE is currently manufacturing Jarlsberg® cheese under an export support scheme, which is expected to be phased out in 2020. The new facility is expected to strengthen the sales of T...

The new facility is the company’s 21st manufacturing site worldwide and its second in Georgia. It will enable Purina to expand its pet food production capacity and distribution in the south-eastern region of the US. It is part of a $500m plan for investment in Nestlé’s factories across the US to support innovation and growth. The company is expected to invest more tha...

Announced in 2014, the expansion project formed part of the company’s plan to accelerate growth in Europe. It aimed to decrease complexity while increasing flexibility and cost-effectiveness. The facility is now one of the most modern factories in the company’s network, and one of the largest biscuit manufacturing sites in Europe. Mondelēz employs more than 1,000 t...

By providing hatching operations, the facility supports Tyson Food’s Northwest Arkansas broiler chicken business. It replaced the company’s operations in Lincoln and the Randall Wobbe Roads hatchery in Springdale, which has been in operations since the 1960s. Tyson invested $31m in the new centre, which employs more than 35 people. Location details The new hatcher...

The investment is part of Cherkizovo’s plan to expand its poultry and pork production in the Lipetsk region. One of the largest agro-industrial buildings in the country, the complex features a cluster of poultry production and processing facilities. Beginning in June 2011, the first stage of construction saw the establishment of the Donskoy hatchery, which was laun...

The state-of-the-art facility was built to manufacture Heat and Control’s Spray Dynamics seasoning and coating equipment. It also includes space for future site development. Spray Dynamics was acquired by Heat and Control in 2011. Its new food equipment manufacturing facility enables the company to design, test and ship equipment for the application of liquid and dry ...

On July 5, the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority, a Canadian nonprofit corporation, chose Bridging North America to be the “preferred proponent” in charge of the public-private partnership to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the future bridge linking Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Canada. Construction is scheduled to begin this year on the 1.5-mile-long, s...

“The 3,000 sq.m renovation was completed in record time here at the plant,” observed Christophe Rauturier, chief digital officer of Groupe PSA. “The new space is designed to accommodate the Digital Factory’s operations with a dynamic, modular and colourful layout. It stimulates creativity, agility and breaks down silos in our business by bringing together all the skills ...

The city of Linz continues the tradition of being able to show the audience a repertoire of operas available today in the new music theatre at the Blumau planned by London architect Terry Pawson. Due to the size of the stage, the large capacity and the top acoustics, the building is also attractive for international stars and guest productions. In the planning and im...

The School of Architects in Barcelona have used Marlon CS Longlife as part of their Team RESSO eco house design for the European Solar Decathlon 2014 held in Versailles, France. Drawing inspiration from the consequences of the real estate bubble which struck Spain from 1997 to 2007 and resulted in more than 800 000 empty housing units, the Resso project is a protot...

An EPFL-led group which is developing a new type of cement that could drastically reduce the carbon footprint of concrete, has received funding from the Swiss Agency for Development (SDC) to scale up its project. The group estimates its new cement mix could reduce the carbon footprint of concrete by up to 40 percent, which is highly significant when you think that the pr...

Today, UK Chancellor George Osborne announces that the British government will open negotiations on a massive £1 billion tidal lagoon scheme set for Swansea, Wales. The announcement was made during his budget speech to the House of Commons. We wrote about the proposed scheme last year when the 320 megawatts (MW), 26 turbine plant project when the project was gaining trac...

It happens all too often in the cold times of the year: You open the window in the morning for fresh air and forget to shut it again. A thermostat reports cold temperatures, and the heating is turned up full blast – right out the window. But open windows are a problem with more than just the heating or storms. A window tilted open, for example, is a direct invitation to ...

The site for the project, Manhattan West, had little laydown space and a steel platform would require columns between tracks. Constructing the columns would interrupt rail service at one of the nation's busiest train stations. "We were looking at a number of different options when we saw this piece of equipment on a bridge site" in Roslyn, N.Y., recalls Henry Caso, vi...

Market Tech, which owns and manages the main Camden Markets, has selected Mace as main contractor for the project that is also known as Hawley Wharf. The Camden Lock Village contract involves construction of more than 170 new homes, as well as retail and market spaces, around 9,175 m2 of employment space and landscaping public realm. Market Tech has also signed up ...

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the great icons of America, but rush-hour traffic has been a nightmare for decades. Officials have wrestled with many different potential solutions to traffic congestion, but none were implemented because Northern Californians are unwilling to see the beauty of their historic landmark desecrated. Even if a solution could be agreed upon, c...

B&W Vølund’s consortium partner, Interserve Strategic Projects, will construct the plant for the developer, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners. The Rotherham Biomass Plant will feature a B&W Vølund-designed multi-fuel boiler with a DynaGrate® fuel combustion system, a dry flue gas desulfurisation system (dry FGD) and will burn waste wood. The contracts also call for B&...

According to the planning application the facility, which is currently under construction, will process and manage up to 48,500 tonnes of biodegradable organic waste per annum. The plant will comprise a reception building, five digestate and storage tanks, a site office, weighbridge and two gas engine generators and ancillary equipment. The proposed capacity at the...