Ensuring worker safety and unimpeded medicine production were among goals set by Janssen Sciences Ireland UC for the $358-million expansion of its biopharmaceutical production plant in Ringaskiddy, County Cork, Ireland.
This project’s name, meaning “pine and cherry blossom,” is symbolic of the close collaboration between the Turkish firm Rönesans Healthcare Investment and Japanese collaborator Sojitz Corp. on this public-private partnership.
This design-build project, spread across five phases, produced a secure new office annex for U.S. diplomatic staff in an existing compound in Amman, Jordan.
A panel of industry judges selected 32 winning projects from 20 different countries around the globe from a record number of entries for ENR’s 2019 Global Best Projects Awards.
Nepal’s devastating April 2015 earthquake and its many aftershocks killed nearly 9,000 people and destroyed or damaged hundreds of thousands of homes. Immediately after the quake, volunteer engineers with nonprofit Miyamoto Relief quickly mobilized.
A sewer line project in Doha, Qatar, completed in April on time and within budget, is the first phase of the public works authority’s Doha South Sewage Infrastructure Project.
Over the course of three-and-a-half years of construction, the project team building the 142,400-sq-ft, three-story Dow Water and Process Solutions Laboratory logged more than 4.7 million worker hours without a lost-time incident or accident of any kind.
The rehabilitation of and new additions to the West Block—part of the Canadian Parliament completed in 1865—required restoration of exterior load-bearing stone and sculptural elements, complete removal and replacement of building mechanical systems and the replacement of a copper roof.