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DMAA, Gensler and Mott MacDonald win roles on Saudi Arabia’s The Line. Consultants from Austria, the UK and the US have been chosen to fill the roles of urban designer, planning consultant and infrastructure designer for the first phase of The Line,….
‘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.
Turkish consortium bids highest to win new Istanbul airport PPP
May 10, 2013 · Reuters reported that the consortium of Turkish firm IC Ictas and Germany’s Fraport placed the highest bid – $26.15 billion – for the lease in the first round. That was much higher than the second-highest bid of $16.7 billion bid by a Turkish consortium. But the five-firm Turkish group won in the final bidding round. Story for GCR?
China First Highway begins work on $1.5bn Cameroon motorway
Oct 14, 2024 · China First Highway Engineering Corporation has begun design work on the second phase of a motorway that will run east–west between Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon, and the port city of Douala. The start on the second stage was announced by Nganou Djoumessi, the minister of public works. It will cover the 141km between Bibodi and Douala ...
Montreal’s new bridges made with 70,000 wine bottles
Nov 3, 2023 · Canadian architect Provencher_Roy is toasting the completion of a pair of bridges it designed in Montreal made with concrete 10% comprised of ground, recycled glass. Calling it a world first, the practise said the 40,000kg of glass used as a ternary binder represented 70,000 wine bottles. It said using the ground glass pozzolan cut greenhouse ...
Singapore to try building roads with waste ash instead of sand
Nov 25, 2019 · In a bid to prolong the life of its fast-filling landfill sites, Singapore will test the use of treated incineration bottom ash as base material for building roads. Three companies have been picked to conduct field trials using 3,000 tonnes of ash collected from waste-to-energy plants. They will use the treated ash, to be branded "NEWsand", on ...
Why Saudi Arabia’s “The Line” is not a revolution in urban living
Jun 23, 2023 · The Line is planned to be a city built from nothing in the desert. It is to consist of two gigantic, unbroken rows of skyscrapers, with living space in between. It is planned to be 170km long, 200m wide, and 500m high, taller than any building in Europe, Africa, and Latin America. 10 times denser than Manhattan.
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.
Africa’s first: Ghana breaks ground on $60bn petrochemical complex
Aug 23, 2024 · Get in touch via email: [email protected]. Fast-growing Ghana has broken ground on the $12bn first phase of the planned $60bn Petroleum Hub, set to be Africa’s first integrated petrochemical complex, local media report.