Photo Courtesy of DIA Holding DIA Holding completed the 2.7-million-sq-ft mixed-use Flame Towers project in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2012. The project is designed as a first step in transforming Baku into a high-tech center Related Links: Comprehensive Text, Analysis, Charts. Rankings and Revenue (purchase or subscription required) ENR's Top Lists ENR's Top International Contractors Despite some global upheavals and uncertainty, the world construction market showed surprising strength for large contractors in 2011. After being flat in 2009 and 2010, revenue for large international contractors grew last year. However, big contractors working in the international market are expressing some caution about
Major European contractors have flocked to London for a piece of the 21-kilometer Crossrail tunnel project now advancing at more than 40 sites across the city.
Related Links: A Russian Cable-Stayed Transformation The World's Top 10 Longest Cable-Stayed Bridges Whatever else Russia achieves with the planned Pacific Rim economic summit in Vladivostok in September, its legacy will include construction of the world's longest cable- stayed bridge span and a big boost to this sleepy Far East fishing port.The Russky Island bridge will extend the span record to 1,104 meters and include seeds of a new high-wire system to dampen vibrations of cables. Bridge design engineers are addressing the challenge of cable-induced vibrations as modern cable-stayed spans grow in size.Construction of the island span and, five kilometers
U.K. nuclear power ambitions took a big step forward with the 18 June award by French government-owned EDF Energy plc., London, of a roughly $3.2-billion civil work contract (£2b) at its planned new plant in Somerset.
A royal opening on June 8 marked the on-time completion of a $325-million (€260 million) tunnel project to improve links between Brussels airport with the rest of Belgium and neighboring France and Germany. As rail services start through the new Diabolo project, the same construction team is on course to completing the larger Liefkenshoek rail tunnel in the port of Antwerp, 45 kilometers to the north.
Having secured an extra $1.1 billion (HK$8.8b) to cover a 54% hike in the project budget, the Hong Kong government on June 12 announced two design-build contract awards together worth nearly $3 billion for the territory's share of the 30-km-long fixed link to Macao.
Courtesy LOCOG London Olympic Games officials kept within budget established in 2007, officials say. With construction work at an end and just a few weeks before the 27 July opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the U.K. government published the latest accounting for venues and infrastructure costs. The report shows a saving of nearly 5% below baseline estimates made five years ago.The final cost for work by the Olympic Delivery Authority, charged with procuring the venues and infrastructure, is now $10.5 billion. According to the Dept. of Culture Media and Sport, $740 million of contingencies remain
Related Links: Global Skyscraper Group Ventures into Research for the First Time Megaprojects: Songdo International Business District Unusual double-helix external bracing will stabilize a 620-meter-tall tower at the center of the 20-building Yongsan International Business District, planned for a 3,000-hectare site next to the Han River in Seoul, South Korea. The conical skyscraper is among the first of the major buildings scheduled to start construction soon, now that conceptual designs for the 3.4-million-square-meter brownfield development have been completed.Teams of local and international architects and engineers announced their concepts for each of Yongsan's planned buildings earlier this month, marking the start
Delays at the Greater Gabbard project mean that the wind farm off the English coast will be the world’s largest offshore wind farm only briefly, till the larger London Array project reaches construction completion.