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Germany’s Siemens has landed multiple rail contracts in Thailand, including delivery of 53 new trains and improvements to intercity connectivity.
Bratislava to get EU’s second tallest building
Nov 26, 2024 · KCAP was founded in Rotterdam in 1989 by Kees Christiaanse, and is now led by seven partners. It has branch offices in Zürich, Paris and Shanghai, and works with a staff of more than 100 and mainly works in Europe and Asia.
Work restarts on 1km-tall Jeddah tower - Global Construction …
Oct 7, 2024 · The $1.9bn scheme is being built by Saudi Binladen Group for the Jeddah Economic Company (JEC), a developer owned by tycoon Prince Al Waleed bin Talal, a grandson of Abdulaziz al-Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia.
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An experienced curtain-wall installer in Hong Kong died on 28 December after being struck by a falling 1.2-tonne glass panel at a commercial construction site at West Kowloon high-speed rail…
New York’s $10bn bus terminal revamp is going ahead
Dec 11, 2024 · More than 200,000 local and regional bus trips start and end every weekday at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Midtown Bus Terminal on the corner of 9 th Avenue and West 42 nd Street, but the shambling complex dating back to 1950 is now considered ugly and dysfunctional.
Swedish firms join Helsinki’s tram bonanza
Dec 6, 2024 · Swedish contractor Skanska and Swedish engineering consultancies Sweco and Rejlers are picking up light rail-related work in Helsinki as the Finnish capital enters a decade of tramline expansion to accommodate a growing population.
“Outright sabotage”: Why a judge ordered China Construction …
Oct 28, 2024 · The New York State Supreme Court judge who ruled this month that contractor China Construction America (CCA) owed damages worth $1.6bn to the developer of the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas said in his ruling that the defendants, CCA, breached contracts and committed fraud to force the project out of the developer’s hands.
UK start-up ships two robotic housebuilding ‘micro-factories’ to …
Oct 2, 2024 · She added: “AUAR’s software platform is comprised of design-for-manufacture and assembly micro-services that AUAR and their partners use to automate the collection of design requirements, building code and supply chain information, and automatically produce full design specifications including construction details, bills of materials, the manufacturing code for the Micro-Factories and ...
Peru’s ‘transformational’ Chancay Port opens for business
Nov 15, 2024 · The port will also aggregate cargo carried on smaller container ships from Colombia, Ecuador and Chile, and transport them to Asia in “ultra large” carriers, which can accommodate between 14,500 and 24,000 containers.
China plans 60MW thorium reactor in Gobi Desert by 2029
Jul 30, 2024 · The Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics says China will build the world’s first large-scale molten-salt-cooled thorium reactor in the Gobi Desert next year, reports the South China Morning Post.