Articles Tagged with ''Odebrecht''

Stadiums and Arenas

Disappointment on an Olympian Scale After Rio 2016 Summer Games

Sports infrastructure crumbles less than a year after Olympic Games end

Augusto Diniz

February 21, 2017

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Touted as a way to deliver sustainable, badly needed amenities, the 2016 Rio Olympic Games instead is a sad monument to corruption and poor planning.

Risk Management

How Does the Rio Olympics Construction Measure Up?

Despite fanfare, Olympic Games are still costly and challenging engineering projects

Augusto Diniz

Tudor Van Hampton

August 12, 2016

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The construction industry continues to study the multiyear buildup of the Rio Olympics as a costly and challenging engineering project that provides lessons for future cities hosting large programs such as the Summer Games.

Project Delivery

Why Dallas Called for Do-Over On Big Drainage Tunnel Project

An audit followed disqualification of Odebrecht Construction's low bid on Trinity River watershed job

Scott Van Voorhis

Richard Korman

July 6, 2016

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After discarding both the low and second-low bids, the city of Dallas has decided to start over with a competition for a big drainage-tunnel prime contract in the Trinity River watershed in the east section of the city.

Project Delivery

Dallas Calls Do-Over on Badly Needed Drainage Tunnel Job

The reasons are unclear why the city took the project away from Brazil’s Odebrecht

Scott Van Voorhis

Richard Korman

June 28, 2016

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The two lowest bidders for the tunnel did not get the contract.

CEO of Odebrecht Sentenced in Brazil

Augusto Diniz

March 16, 2016

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Brazil’s current government and its largest contractor are trying to survive the latest episode in the country’s long-running construction bribery scandal.

Transportation

South American Highway Project Stretches Ocean to Ocean

C.J. Schexnayder

January 8, 2007

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The $1.3 billion Interoceanic Highway project in Southern Peru will create a road connection linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans across the South American Continent.