Said to reorganize and simplify the process of running a construction project from estimating to project close-out, the TenderSpace project management toolbox is intended to alert users to potential opportunities and suggest alternative organizational strategies. Architects, suppliers and subcontractors can work together in the project management web space to coordinate ...
A collaboration among Exelon Generation, CB&I and 8 Rivers Capital, NET Power will use the plant to demonstrate its Allam Cycle technology, which utilizes carbon dioxide as a working fluid to drive a combustion turbine, eliminates atmospheric emissions without requiring carbon-capture equipment and ultimately produces pipeline-quality CO2 that can be sequestered or used ...
The contract was awarded by the Slovakian Motorway Administration (NDS). Work will start in May 2015 and is scheduled to take 24 months. "The Slovakian one is an important project market for Porr,” said Porr AG CEO Karl-Heinz Strauss. “For more than five years, our Slovakian subsidiary Porr sro has been successfully implementing major infrastructure projects - alas, u...
The team, US 460 Mobility Partners, had been awarded the contract in late 2012 to design and build a new 55-mile limited access highway that would parallel the existing Route 460. At the time, the cost of the public-private partnership project was put at US$1.396bn (£945m). Project cost includes design, construction and toll collection set-up. Funding sources are as foll...
The £3m Seabraes pedestrian bridge was placed on Sunday 12th April. The lifting operation was entrusted to Baldwins Crane Hire, which used its new Liebherr LG 1750 lattice boom mobile crane for the job. The crane has a rated capacity of 750 tonnes at seven metres radius. The Seabraes bridge structure weighed 70 tonnes. Despite some rain and gusts of wind the lift proc...
The work is for three separate warehouse development projects, including two located in Milton Keynes and other in Daventry. All three developments will be constructed within a short timescale and will feature two-storey office accommodation, a security gatehouse, standard loading docks together with parking spaces for HGV trailers as well as cars. The announcement...
The £5.6m contract is for a range of two- to six-bedroom homes designed by Oakley Architects for three sites in the city. Stoke Aldermore is the location for 45 homes built across two sites. The remaining five will be built following the demolition of a former health clinic that currently lies vacant on the site. Lee Sale, regional director for Wates Living Space, ...
Project director Chris Meale said that there had been wide interest from the New Zealand construction industry. Auckland Transport has appointed two joint venture contractors for the work: Connectus (McConnell Dowell and Hawkins JV) and a joint venture of Downer NZ and Soletanche Bachy. The work covers the first phase of design at a cost of about NZ$3m (£1.5m). The next ...
The new hall, big enough to hold all 1200 pupils for school meetings and events, replaces a 1960s-built hall that is no longer fit for purpose. Deeley managing director Martin Gallagher told The Coventry Telegraph: “These are really exciting plans for a new site, which should have a big impact on the life of students and staff at Warwick School while providing minima...
The scheme, which is a three-way joint venture with Vinci Construction Grands Projets and Taylor Woodrow, includes the development of 24km of new motorway. It will also feature a 2.5km cable-stayed viaduct crossing of the River Usk, and improvement to junctions 23 and 29 of the M4. There is expected to be a public inquiry into the motorway upgrades, to be held next...
The three-phase project covers a 1.57 km2 site in the southern part of the capital city and comprises seven major indoor sporting venues with capacities from 5,000 to 45,000 spectators. Also included in the project are outdoor facilities, hotels, restaurants, car parks, an Olympic Village with capacity for 12,000 competitors and a 5 km monorail to connect them all tog...
According to its official news portal, the Sri Lankan government has decided that the proposed Sanitary landfill will be constructed in keeping with international standards. The government explained that currently around 700 tonnes per day of solid waste is collected in the city of Colombo. When combined with the other urbanised local authorities in the Metro Colombo ...
The Green Square Aquatic Centre and Gunyama Park in Sydney has been designed jointly by UK architect Grimshaw and Australia’s Andrew Burges Architects. The aquatic centre – the largest of its kind to be built in Sydney since the 2000 Olympics – will feature a 50m outdoor pool, indoor pools and gym, all set within a park with play equipment, boardwalk and native landsc...
Signature on the Saint-Lawrence Group is the preferred proponent for the new Bridge for the St Lawrence Corridor. The group is made up of: SNC-Lavalin ACS Infrastructure Hochtief PPP Solutions Dragados Flatiron Construction MMM Group TY Lin International International Bridge Technologies. International Bridge Technologies. An early works agreement will be...
Canary Wharf Group plc has been granted full planning permission by Tower Hamlets Council’s strategic planning committee for 1 Bank Street on the site of what used be known as Heron Quay. It has also got outline planning permission for 1 Park Place. Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox (KPF), 1 Bank Street will be a curved 27-storey building, 146-metres high, with 700,000 sq...
With all contracts signed, joint venture developer Vinci St Modwen (VSM) and its partner the Covent Garden Market Authority (CGMA) are now free to start construction of the massive redevelopment. They plan to be on site by summer. The 10-year project, the largest in the Nine Elms regeneration area, will see the delivery of more than 500,000 sq ft of new market facilit...
The multiline plant will be built at the company's headquarters in Tarnow, Poland, and will have a total capacity of 80,000 metric tons per year of polyamide 6 for film applications and engineering plastics. The polymerisation plant will use Uhde Inventa-Fischer’s two-stage polyamide 6 process. The technological highlight of the plant will be the cost-effective, f...
Maspeth, NY – Securitech, the industry leader for innovative, purpose-driven locking devices, is promoting safe classroom security and warning of the dangers of door-blocking devices that cannot be opened from the outside by first responders. According to the National Association of State Fire Marshals, some of the proposed solutions for securing classroom doors in th...
The 4,500 sq ft expansion includes the creation of a new 300 hectolitre brew-house that will be added to the current facility. This large steel frame building will contain the production and warehouse areas and will enable BrewDog to increase production. Work is due to start on the new brew-house later this month. In addition to the brew-house, Barr Construction ...
Lelystad will take over some of the increase in air traffic at Schiphol. This will allow Schiphol more room for flights with passengers changing planes, to reinforce its position as a hub. Infrastructure and the environment secretary Wilma Mansveld said: ‘In our economy, Schiphol Airport’s elaborate network of connections is the mainstay for a great many international...
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) will be investigating how the overspend arose at the new Denver veterans hospital. The aim is that the hospital will open in 2017 following estimated spending of another US$830m to complete the work. Cost of the hospital is now put at US$1.73bn. It had been due to open next month at a cost of US$630m. US Representative Mike Co...
The new Centrum Ground Beam system is a precast concrete ground beam option that can be linked to the Aarsleff’s own piling system for continuity of foundation works or installed with other piling methods. It is designed to replace in situ construction of ground beams, which are typically installed by follow-on trades. Aarsleff claims savings in both foundation design...
The scheme to modernise the building began in 2010 and encompasses structural repairs, replacement of internal equipment, improving disabled access and updating air conditioning and fire protection systems. External features of the listed building are also being preserved and restored. The ground engineering aspect has focused on building an underground structure to c...
The former home of B-1B bombers and current home to the RQ-4 Global Hawk drone, North Dakota’s Grand Forks Air Force Base will soon become host to the first business park in the U.S. that solely houses companies involved in the fast-growing commercial drone business. With the Federal Aviation Administration giving its OK to the development of commercial drone applicat...
The notice in the Official Journal of the European Union concerns the first civil engineering works contracts for Line 15 South of the Grand Paris Express. The work covers 33km of underground lines, 16 stations between Pont-de-Sèvres and Noisy-Champs, and 38 related engineering structures. Eight main works contracts are planned, with bidding phases spread over the sec...
The contract notice in the EU Official Journal says the brief “calls for a highly sustainable new building that is distinctive, with exceptional design quality, reflecting UCL's global significance whilst not appearing elitist”. It adds: “It should be a building that is accessible, inclusive, and welcoming.” The New Student Centre will provide learning space and a ...
Skanska will renew three subway stations on the Sea Beach Line. The work includes platform and canopy replacement, refurbishment of control houses, electrical and communication upgrades, and structural repairs along the rail structures between the stations. Construction is expected to be completed in November 2018.
The 70-unit development will redevelop the former 6.75-acre site of the Lancashire Watch Company on Albany Road. The Grade II listed factory building will be converted into 54 extra care apartments while an additional 16 extra care bungalows will be built on site. Harbur is building the properties on behalf of Liverpool-based developer Iliad Group for Knowsley Hous...
Willmott Dixon private rental company has agreed a deal to acquire 3.9 acres of the nine-acre Abbey Retail Park site in Barking from Estates & Agency Group. It plans to develop approximately 650 flats for the private rental sector (PRS) and will also manage the properties as landlord. The deal remains subject to planning consent. Estates & Agency Group received pla...
Unpleasant odors, stuffy air or permanent drafts: A person who is regularly exposed at home or in the office to bad air doesn’t feel well. Odors from carpets, paints, varnishes and furniture, as well as mold, or air which is too dry, affect the indoor climate. “There are no materials without emissions and odors,” explains Dr. Andrea Burdack-Freitag, sensory expert at the...
