This 2011 lump-sum combined-cycle plant is part of 24,000 MW of power capacity built and planned in Russia since the sector allowed foreign bidders in 2006.
The client, a Hungarian firm structured with an Irish holding company and U.S. investors, desired a U.S.-style production facility fully compliant with European Union standards.
ENR presents the winners of our first-ever Global Best Projects competition. A panel of industry veterans chose the projects on the following pages as outstanding examples of the challenges, risks and rewards of designing and building internationally.
To erect Miami International Airport's 1.27-mile-long automated people mover system—featuring trains manufactured in Japan—builders had to work above and along MIA's entranceway.
Builders of Miami International Airport's new $1.1-billion North Terminal transformed a 50-year-old building into a mile-long, 3.2-million-sq-ft transportation hub.
Related Links: Global Best Projects Awards Geno Armstrong , Principal, KPMGARMSTRONGGeno Armstrong serves as KPMG’s global leader for its major projects advisory service as well as the international head of its engineering & construction industry practice. He has over 20 years of domestic and international major project development and construction experience, including construction development strategies, troubled project recovery and project controls. Armstrong worked in Fortune 100 corporate real estate and construction groups and was project manager for an ENR Top International engineering and construction company before joining KPMG. A registered professional engineer, Armstrong is active with major projects in the energy
Two international firms, Odebrecht and OHL, teamed to build the 2.4-mile-long Metrorail extension to Miami International Airport's new intermodal center.
Demonstrating industry benchmarks for safe practices, this project for a 1.27-mile-long elevated rail system at Miami International Airport achieved "world-class results," according to the experts who judged ENR's first-ever "Best of the Best" award for project safety.