Related Links: Description of early outline of the Marmay Railway project, circa 1860 Article on opposition to the $7 billion Canal Istanbul Turkey is going through an intensive infrastructure buildup, with the majority of funds going toward ports, bridges and tunnels as well as a massive artificial waterway.Following the growth of the past decade, which saw the number of the country's ports double, some of the biggest infrastructure projects are still in the planning stages.Despite the unrest of recent months, Turkey still has high ambitions for continued growth. The country has grown, from 2003 to 2012, at an average annual
Map by Jeffrey Cox/ENR Rail Baltica will extend European standard gauge through the Baltic states. Related Links: For Panamax Port Expansions, The Freight Wait is Almost Over Saudi Arabia Upgrading Rail Passenger and Freight Service Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are aiming to take their railway destinies more firmly in hand through Rail Baltica, a multinational effort to improve freight rail connectivity between Central and Northern Europe. Running from the port of Tallinn, Estonia, south through Latvia and Lithuania, the high-speed, standard-gauge line will connect with Warsaw, Poland, and ultimately, Berlin.Construction of Baltica 1, the first 115-kilometer segment between the Polish-Lithuania
HS2 HS2 Chairman Higgins is calling for an acceleration of phase two of the high-speed rail program from London to the north of England. HS2 Proposed route would open development in England's north, backers say. Related Links: Legislation for UK's $80-Billion HS2 Rail Program Will Move, Government Official Tells Engineers U.K. Launches $52-Billion Rail Plan The U.K. Transportation Secretary Patrick McLoughlin has accepted new recommendations to accelerate construction of the country’s second high speed railroad. Among other changes to the estimated $83-billion, two-phase HS2 project to win government support is an entirely new grand terminus at Euston, in London.McLoughlin’s decision
Related Links: Link to Jordan Cove LNG Project Link to DOE's conditional authorization of Jordan Cove CB&I and Japan's Chiyoda Win $6 Billion EPC Award for Louisiana LNG The Dept. of Energy has given conditional approval to export liquefied natural gas from Jordan Cove LNG terminal in Coos Bay, Ore.DOE's decision, announced on March 24, drew praise from construction unions but criticism from environmental organizations.The $7.7-billion Oregon project is the seventh LNG export facility in the U.S. to receive conditional approval since 2011. But it is the first U.S. greenfield project and the first on America's west coast, according to
Strike disruptions on a water project in South Africa, contracted to global infrastructure development firm Aveng Group, will push back the job's completion for yet another three months. Previously, the project was delayed for a year.Aveng Group subsidiary Grinaker LTA has said the labor disruptions related to worker pensions and benefits at the Mokolo Crocodile Water Augmentation Project contributed to a $9-million drop in company profits for the six months that ended last December.The project, which is being implemented by South Africa-owned Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority, entails the phased construction of two main bulk raw-water transfer systems as well as associated
Photo courtesy Vinci Group Stalled highway projects were a visible sign of the economic crisis in Greece. Related Links: Research Automates Tunnel Inspection Robot Eurozone Debt Crisis Takes Its Toll on Construction Despite its huge debts, Greece is in recovery mode. Forecasters expect the stricken European state to start climbing out of its deep recession, and renewed construction of four large, internationally backed highway projects is seen as a sign of new life.The four stalled projects, which have a combined value exceeding $10 billion, were "visible casualties of the crisis in Greece," according to Johannes Hahn, the European Union's commissioner
The construction of what is said to be Africa’s largest refinery and petrochemical complex, sited in Nigeria, would create training and jobs for at least 8,000 engineers and technicians, according to the main investor.Dangote Group of Companies, a large Nigeria-based industrial conglomerate, last year announced it will invest $9 billion in a 400,000-barrel-per-day refinery and a 600,000-metric-tonne-per-year polypropylene plant in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, which is jointly owned by a Chinese consortium.Dangote Group President Aliko Dangote said in Lagos in mid-February that his company will raise $3 billion in equity for the refinery and petrochemical plant.Last September, it signed
Fishermen's Energy Company officials say state regulators misinterpreted the cost of power produced by the planned project. Related Links: Fishermen's Energy Website Another Industry Setback: N.J. Whacks Fishermen's Offshore Wind Demo Project New Jersey Developer Awarded State Permit for Offshore Farm Danish Pension Fund Invests in Cape Wind Project The developer of a 25-MW pilot offshore wind project, sited three miles from Atlantic City, N.J., plans to challenge state regulators’ unanimous decision on March 20 to deny it energy credits to support construction and financing costs.The state's Board of Public Utilities (BPU) said the estimated $200-million project would need state
Morocco says development of five solar-power projects, estimated at $9.5 billion total, will proceed despite threats by some European financiers to pull out of the initiative because of the controversial presence of the country’s administration in the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara.Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar, as quoted by Reuters in early February, told the reluctant investors that Morocco has “no financing problems. We have several [investors]. There are the Japanese, Chinese and Gulf countries.” Moroccan authorities, however, have yet to reveal which lenders have solidified pledges to fund the ambitious energy development program.Undisclosed sources at Germany's state-owned banks and at
By Richard Pare Moscow's Shukhov radio tower, completed in 1922, has fallen into disrepair and is scheduled for dismantling. By Richard Pare Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov's hyperbolic tower is one of the superlative engineering feats of the twentieth century, according to the engineers and architects that want to preserve it. Related Links: Shukhov Tower Federation Motherboard: Architects to Putin, "Save Moscow's Eiffel! Internationally renowned structural engineers and architects are calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to save from demolition Moscow’s iconic Shukhov radio tower. Designed by Vladimir Grigorievich Shukhov, who is credited with developing the hyperbolic-tower concept, the 92-year-old steelwork structure
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