Related Links: The Ten Most Noteworthy Rail Projects: Overview and Related Stories Project: North-South RailwayCost: $3.5 billionConstruction period: 2007-2013Saudi Arabia, though late to adopt rail service, has embarked on an ambitious program that will feature both freight and passenger service.Its North-South Railway, a 2,400-kilometer-long branching system, will link Saudi Arabia’s northern mineral belt with smelters and a port on the Persian Gulf, enabling the country to better reach export markets. Further, passenger service will connect Riyadh with cities in the north and extend to the Jordanian border.The construction work has been divided into four phases. The Saudi Binladin Group, the
Russian State Railways (RZD) Rail network construction in Libya has been slowed by the rebellion. Related Links: Benguela Railway Promises To Open Angola's Interior China Offers To Build $2-Billion Iranian Rail Link Opening of Harbin-Dalian High-Speed-Rail Line Postponed Rail Network Construction in Libya Stalled by Rebellion Saudi Arabia's North-South Railway Will Upgrade Passenger and Freight $11.3-Billion China Rail Link Tunnels 63% of the Way Rail Megaproject: $11-Billion United Arab Emirates Network Central Asian Rail Link Will Redirect Export Paths Brazilian $3.21-Billion Rail Revitalization Project Tracks for 2012 Arrival India Moves Forward on $90-Billion Industrial Development Plan In 2008, American transportation
Related Links: The Ten Most Noteworthy Rail Projects: Overview and Related Stories Comprehensive National Rail NetworkCost: $5.6 billionConstruction period: 2008-12 (original estimate)Libya's civil war has halted an ambitious plan to build an extensive $5.6-billion rail system designed to bolster both passenger and freight service.The major east-west route would parallel the coast, ultimately stretching 2,300 kilometers from Ras Ejder on the border of Tunisia to Umm Sa’ad on the Egyptian border.The regime awarded separate contracts to Russian and Chinese contractors to complete certain segments. In 2008, crews from RZD, the Russian state railway, began building the 554-km Surt-to-Benghazi segment, which had
Israel is pushing through two new energy projects to meet expanding needs with limited resources.State-owned Israel Electric Corp. (IEC) is seeking a partner to build an additional co-generation plant, valued at between $500 million and $600 million, at a site in northern Israel. The 450-MW plant would be located at Alon Tavor, near Afula, next to an existing facility. A request for information (RFI), which was set to close on Oct. 1, says the investor would hold at least a 51% stake and possibly up to a 100% stake in the project. If the holding is less than 100%, IEC
chemicals-technology.com Island location near Singapore is close to Asian customers and has a deepwater port. chemicals-technology.com Facility will be sited on Jurong Island, already a major petrochemical complex in Singapore. On a 124-acre island site off the coast of Singpore, work has restarted on a $2.4-billion facility complex that could become one of the world's largest plants for producing aromatics, hydrocarbon products derived from crude oil.Originally set for completion this year, the Jurong Aromatics Complex (JAC) on Jurong Island has experienced setbacks caused by financial issues in the marketplace and among its investors, according to a published report. Singapore-based developer
Image courtesy AGL Energy/Meridian Energy Located 230 kilometers west of Melbourne, the farm will be powered by 140 3-MW turbines. Located 230-km west of Melbourne, the farm will be powered by 140 turbines Due for completion in 2013, the $1-billion wind farm will produce enough energy to power more than 220,000 homes, according to the developer. Developers of Australia’s Macarthur Wind Farm recently completed financing for the 420-MW project, which it says will be the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest wind farm. Construction already has started at the site in Southwest Victoria. Houston-based KBR Inc. is acting as the owner’s project manager.Due
The world's busiest land port crossing, at San Ysidro, Calif., reopened its 24 northbound travel lanes from Mexico on Sept. 18, five days after a 50-ft by 50-ft temporary wood platform, meant to catch demolition waste on a $577-million border station renovation, collapsed and rained heavy debris on vehicles and personnel. One construction worker was seriously injured, and 16 other people also were hurt, including three laborers. Concrete, metal supports, wooden planks and a large black tarpaulin damaged 15 vehicles. Rescuers extracted three people from the wreckage.Miller Environmental Inc., Anaheim, Calif., was removing plaster from an administration building set for
Photo courtesy of Geocomp A sampling of one of the sensors on the Twin Span Bridge. Related Links: New Orleans Bridge Raises Bar On Embedded Sensor Technology Well before embedded instrumentation delivered data from a February 2009 lateral load test of a bent and pier of the I-10 Twin Span Bridge in New Orleans—and long before the sensors begin a life of service as long-term structural-health monitoring aids this October—devices cast into the bridge's structure were presenting a wealth of data to the industry.“The instruments that are in the pile foundations had to be placed in the rebar cages for
Photo by AP/WideWorld POSTER CHILD President Obama praised Solyndra and its technology during a facility tour in May 2010. The bankruptcy of a Silicon Valley-based solar panel manufacturer, announced Aug. 31, followed by an FBI raid on the company a week later, sent shock waves through the solar industry and provided an easy opening for congressional Republicans to question the wisdom of the federal government's $535-million loan guarantee as well as its investment in renewable projects in general.But solar industry sources claim the bankruptcy of Solyndra LLC is an isolated case. And the Obama administration so far is showing no
ENCLOSURE Tennessee Valley Authoritys remediation design details the alteration of the coal-ash containment ponds terrain profile.l A record-breaking 11-mile slurry wall in itself is unusual, but the relationship between contractor, engineer and owner is what makes the construction of the wall—at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston fossil plant—even more unusual, says Brian Jasperse, president and CEO of Geo-Con, Pittsburgh.“It's been a very interesting process,” Jasperse says. “It's a really good example of the engineer, contractor and owner trying to tweak the design. It's highly unusual, and as a result we're putting together a good product.”Knoxville, Tenn.-based TVA and its remediation
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