Rendering courtesy of Sembawang Work on the station is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2013. Related Links: MTR Project Homepage Hong Kongs Booming Top 10 (requires ENR login) A subsidiary of India's Punj Lloyd Group has won its first order in Hong Kong to construct MTR Corp.'s Shatin to Central Link Diamond Hill Extension Station, located in northern Kowloon. The firm's Hong Kong-based unit, Sembawang Engineers and Constructors, has won the $212-million job with consortium partner Leader Civil Engineering Corp. Ltd.The 17-kilometer Shatin to Central Link (SCL) is part of Hong Kong's strategic infrastructure plan to develop
Related Links: Floating Bridge Replacement Work Under Way Near Seattle Norwegian Public Roads Administration A 4-kilometer-long floating bridge, which would break the current world record by 2,754 meters, and the first floating tunnel, also 4 km, are among a series of remarkable highway structures, estimated to cost $24.5 billion, planned along more than 1,000 km of Norway’s E39 coastal highway.Government engineers studying the fixed crossings of seven fjords, which are too wide and deep for conventional structures, say the project is likely to push the boundaries of bridge design well beyond current limits.The structures would eliminate seven ferry crossings of
Photo courtesy of the Port of Mombasa Photo courtesy of the Port of Mombasa Related Links: Uneven Growth Projected for African Construction Industry Driven by Africa's rapid economic growth, ports throughout the continent are undergoing major expansions. Africa has experienced an average of 4.5% to 5% of overall growth in the past three years, leading to big increases in its export-import volumes.The demand for port capacity is driven largely by the expanding construction and mining sectors, which require increases of construction-equipment imports and oil and mineral exports.Eastern Africa’s largest economy, Kenya, which enjoyed a growth in its gross domestic product
Cylindrical Tokamak reactor will include some 60,000 cast-in-place elements (above). Work is under way at the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France by a VINCI-led consortium (below). Related Links: In a Test of Technology, the Largest-Ever Fusion Reactor Rises in France International Program Aims To Develop Energy Supply Without Limit Contractors for the main buildings to house the next generation of nuclear-fusion research are due this month to start receiving final designs, allowing construction to start on the 42-hectare French site this fall. The roughly $410-million contract was signed in December. Now, the main concern for the team delivering the
U.S.-led joint ventures have won multiple front-end engineering and design, or FEED, contracts to build or install Mozambique's first liquefied-natural-gas facilities, both on- and offshore, as the scramble intensifies for additional sources of energy in Africa.
Related Links: Water Groups' Blueprint (PDF) http://enr.construction.com/business_management/workforce/2010/0609-careerwebsite.asp Industry Associations Launch Career Website in Water Niche Three major water groups have developed a document they hope will be a springboard for legislative and regulatory changes that could help modernize how the Clean Water Act is interpreted and implemented.The document, titled "Water Resources Utility of the Future: Blueprint for Action," was released on Jan. 31 by the National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA), the Water Environment Research Foundation and the Water Environment Federation. It highlights the ways utilities have evolved.The blueprint is a living document, its authors say, and "represents an
Related Links: Cost Pressures, Delay Worries Sour Two Southern Co. Projects Vogtle Suppliers Continue to Miss the Mark for Quality Control Nuclear-power boosters have pinned their industry's future on the on-time and on-budget completion of the first new reactors being built in decades in Georgia. Such success, they hope, will erase memories of the over-budget and behind-schedule nuclear construction cycle of 30 years ago.But those expectations may already be falling short.In January, the watchdog groups Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and Friends of the Earth released a report that highlights perceived problems with the $8.33-billion federal loan guarantee for
Photo Courtesy of Cianbro Corp. Facility built by Cianbro Corp. at the University of Maine, Orono, will test full-length offshore turbine blades. The 87,000-sq-ft building includes a pool in which blade stability will be analyzed in April. Related Links: Maine Surges Forward With Offshore Turbine Plans In Maine, Tidal Power Shows More Promise Maine regulators have approved construction of a 12-MW offshore wind farm, one of two offshore projects developing separate technologies to harness, by 2016, deepwater wind energy from the Gulf of Maine and link it to the state's power network.Despite earlier concerns about the cost impact on ratepayers,
Related Links: First $1.8B Leg of U.S. Offshore Wind Transmission Link Is Set Bechtel Tests the Wind for Great Lakes Alternative Energy Website of Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Takoma Park, Md. The third time could be the charm for Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's push to get state legislators to support a 200-MW offshore wind project. Passage of enabling legislation now appears likely as the primary statehouse opponent of two past efforts has exited a key committee.Two bills introduced in the House of Delegates and state Senate on Jan. 28 are substantially identical to legislation that was blocked in the Senate
Photo Courtesy of Cheniere Energy The Sabine Pass, Texas, import terminal was modified to export LNG. Most expansion plans are along the Gulf Coast. Related Links: NERA: Macroeconomic Impacts of LNG Exports From the U.S. (PDF) Under Oil and Gas Price Pressure, It's Back to the Future Following a recently released Dept. of Energy macroeconomic study that concluded exporting natural gas would have an overall positive economic benefit, U.S. contractors are supporting a rush of feasibility and engineering work for potential liquefied-natural-gas, or LNG, export terminals.DOE could begin deciding within a month whether to let developers export LNG to countries
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