Murphy & Sons Limited (Murphy) has been awarded a new US$16M contract by UK Power Networks for the partial design, construction…
Month: October 2011
Tenders coming for Toronto's 17.5km Light Rail Transit Tunnel
Metrolinx, a provincial transit agency, is preparing to call tenders for construction of The Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown Light Rapid Transit Line…
Ottawa LRT shortlist announced
The City of Ottawa and Infrastructure Ontario today announced the three consortia short-listed to submit proposals to design, build, finance…
MTR awards US$1.2bn Terminus contract
Leighton Asia in joint venture with Gammon has secured a US$1.2bn contract from Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation to construct the…
Geothermal grant award for Atlas Copco
Atlas Copco Secoroc LLC and Sandia National Laboratories have been awarded US$3.4M by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for…
Azerbaijan Metro Line 3 kicks off
Late August saw construction of Azerbaijan’s third metro line get into gear with the launch, by contractor Azerkorpu, of a…
Hitachi Zosen cements SR 99 EPBM deal
Hitachi Zosen Corp cemented its role in the SR 99 Tunnel Project on Wednesday by signing a contract with JV…
UK nuclear report green lights new build
An analysis of the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident by the UK’s official nuclear regulator reveals no fundamental safety weaknesses in the…
Hong Kong's WIL TBM launched
Xi Shi, the Herrenknecht slurry TBM being used on the West Island Line project on Hong Kong Island commenced tunnelling…
MVB completes first Lee Shaft
MVB, a joint venture of Morgan Sindall, VINCI Construction Grands Projets and Bachy Soletanche has completed the excavation of the…