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A contractor hired for a radiation clean-up project at a former shipyard in San Francisco has agreed to pay $97m after a 12-year legal battle.
Parsons chosen to manage road development in Riyadh
16 小时之前 · Parsons will manage all major highway development in Riyadh, which it expects to add up to 500km of new and upgraded routes. The aim is to tackle congestion and to boost the network before Saudi Arabia hosts the 2034 FIFA World Cup finals and Expo 2030.
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A joint venture between Austrian contractors Porr and Strabag has won a €217m contract to replace a 1.8km bridge in the Austrian Alps. The 55-year-old Luegbrücke is part of the…
Growth predicted for European construction
2025年1月15日 · Management consultant Bain & Company predicts a recovery in some of Europe’s biggest construction markets in 2025 after a two-year slump over 2023-24. Its analysis covers the UK, the Nordics, France, Germany and Italy. It says growth will come from residential, sustainable office, and ...
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With 2024 in its final days, GCR looked back over the year for clues about the trends we’re likely to see in 2025. 1. China’s economic reset Amid high youth…
Hong Kong could cut building costs by using Chinese standards ...
2025年1月8日 · The Hong Kong Construction Association says Hong Kong could adopt mainland Chinese standards for construction materials instead of using British and EU standards to cut building costs, which are currently the highest in Asia. Executive director Godfrey Leung King-kwok told South China Morning Post ...
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2024年12月20日 · Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, right, observes military exercises in the northeastern town of Orzysz on 14 October, with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, left, and Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, Lieutenant General Stanisław Czosnek, middle (Office of the Polish Prime Minister)
Debt mounts as China ramps up infrastructure spending
2022年7月8日 · By the end of May, almost $300bn of special bonds had been issued, up $209bn in the same period last year. During the period, the country initiated 10,644 water conservancy projects, built 275,000 5G base stations, and expanded investment in healthcare and education by 28% and 9%, respectively.
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Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has begun an amphibious operation to replace five crucial bridge decks at Amsterdam’s main Centraal train station that have reached the end of their design life.
Should we just stop building? - Global Construction Review
2024年6月5日 · Will Arnold, climate action leader at the Institution of Structural Engineers and lead author of the proposed Part Z embodied carbon regulation for the UK, said: “It depends.It depends on where you are, it depends on what’s needed, and therefore we should only be building the things we need, and in the UK we’ve got hundreds of thousands of empty buildings currently and yet we’re also ...