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The century’s most troublesome construction projects
Oct 5, 2015 · Chevron’s Gorgon liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is under construction on Barrow Island, 60km off the northwest coast of Western Australia (Source: Chevron) Commenced: 2009. Planned Completion: 2014. Completed: Ongoing – First production estimated late 2015. Delay: Estimated 18 months. Planned Cost: US$37bn. Final Cost: Estimated US$54bn.
China Harbour Engineering to build Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi
Nov 30, 2022 · China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) has been hired to build Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi, which is being developed by CMA Terminals (70%) and AD Ports Group (30%). CHEC will build 28 office and utility buildings, create around a million sq m of yard paving, and build access roads. The terminal’s developers want it to start operating in the ...
‘Landmark event’ claimed as robots pave busy highway in China
Oct 11, 2021 · According to XCMG, the use of the vehicles is a “landmark event” in the development of smart road maintenance. The units used on the refurbishment of the Suzhou Road segment of the highway included 10 tandem road-rollers and two large-width pavers, all of which were controlled and coordinated by a Baidu satellite positioning station.
Work restarts on 1km-tall Jeddah tower - Global Construction …
Oct 7, 2024 · When work stopped, 63 of the building’s 157 storeys had been completed. The tower will be the centrepiece of KHC’s $20bn Jeddah Economic City development, a 500ha urban quarter due to be completed in 2030. The tower was designed by US architect Adrian Smith, who also designed the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, now the world’s tallest building.
Fear of failure: Why bolts on London's Cheesegrater tower began …
Jan 16, 2015 · The news that a third bolt has fallen from the new Leadenhall Building (popularly known as ‘The Cheesegrater’) in the City of London has caused consternation among those involved, coupled with a surge of interest what’s causing it.
“Massive opportunities” remain on Saudi Arabia’s gargantuan Red …
Feb 25, 2022 · Eight-hundred contracts worth some $5.2bn have already been awarded on Saudi Arabia’s massive Red Sea Project, but procurement continues apace with around $400m awarded every month as a workforce of 14,000 and rising works to turn the Kingdom into a global luxury get-away destination.
Norway awards biggest ever road contract to Sotra Link consortium
Sep 8, 2021 · The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) has awarded a $2.27bn (NOK 19.8 billion) public-private partnership (PPP) contract to finance, design, build and operate a 9.4km, four-lane road link in the western county of Vestland to the multinational Sotra Link consortium, owned by Australia’s Macquarie Group, South Korean civil engineering company SK Ecoplant and Italy’s Webuild.
Thailand's land bridge rail-and-port project "to be unveiled in June ...
22.03.21. The Thai government will reveal the location of its planned "land bridge" between the Gulf of Thailand and the Andaman Sea in June, the country’s transport minister Saksayam Chidchob has said. The plan is to build two deepwater ports on either side of one of Thailand’s narrowest regions, linked by a 100km railway and motorway, so ...
Acciona orders hydrogen generator for Madrid building site
Aug 2, 2024 · UK fuel-cell developer AFC Energy told the London Stock Exchange yesterday that it had shipped its 45kVA H-Power Generator to Madrid with a 60kWh battery. Miguel Paris Torres, an executive at Acciona’s Construction Business R&D Centre, said the move reflected his company’s ambition to decarbonise its construction business “over an ...