CSCEC Builds Epidemic Control Facility in Maldives

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Constructed gratis by China State Construction Engineering Corporation, a quarantine facility for proprietors in the Maldives (South Asia Islands) to accommodate foreign workers for medical observation was recently completed and delivered. The project covers an area of about 5,000 square meters, and the facility will be able to accommodate 800 people. The project officially started on April 27, and construction took 22 days to complete. It takes up an area of 4,987.5 square meters and a construction area of 2,443 square meters, including four two-story prefabricated dormitories, one dining facility and two-bathroom facilities. Each dormitory contains 80 rooms, and there … Read more

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PORR Wins S16 Expressway Infrastructure Project in Poland

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PORR S.A. and the Polish General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways signed a contract for Design-Build project for the S16 expressway Olsztyn-Ełk, in the section from Borki Wielkie to Mrągowo. The 13-kilometer-long expressway section will be built within a three-year period along with the construction of the Mrągowo ring road. The contract is worth around EUR 115m. The contract covers the design and construction of a dual-carriageway express road running from Borki Wielkie to Mrągowo with two lanes in each direction, paved over with asphalt, as well as Mrągowo’s ring road. Some sections will be realized as single-carriageway roads … Read more

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Hospital in England Completes, Opens in Less than 3 Weeks to Respond to Pandemic

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Less than three weeks since BAM Construction and its partners began construction, NHS Nightingale Yorkshire and the Humber opened. Based in Harrogate Convention Centre, located in England, it will provide approximately 500 additional beds for coronavirus patients, if local services need them. The new facility is one of seven Nightingale hospitals to be set up around the country as part of a massive NHS effort to respond to the greatest global health emergency in more than a century. This extra capacity is on top of the 33,000 additional beds freed up across NHS hospitals – the equivalent of building 50 … Read more

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China-Laos Railway Project Pushes through Tunnel

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The Dalong No. 2 tunnel of the China-Laos Railway, being built by Sinohydro Bureau 3 Co, a subsidiary of POWERCHINA, was recently drilled through. This is the third tunnel to complete drilling during the COVID-19 pandemic. The tunnel, located in the Luang Prabang Province in Laos, has a design speed of 160 kilometers per hour and is 2,321 meters long. Officials said the tunnel area is a structurally eroded alpine landform with large terrain relief and a relative height difference of more than 100 meters. The lithology is mainly carboniferous slate with sandstone, marlstone and limestone slate, which developed joint … Read more

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Glasgow’s Scottish Events Campus Transforms into NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital

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Balfour Beatty recently completed the new temporary NHS Scotland Hospital, NHS Louisa Jordan, at Glasgow’s Scottish Events Campus, on behalf of the Scottish Government. Acting as principal contractor, Balfour Beatty completed construction, along with its local supply chain and partner contractors, in just 20 days. The clinical facility, which has been constructed to provide extra patient capacity, will provide 1,036 beds for COVID-19 patients, should NHS Scotland require additional flexibility during the pandemic. Construction included the building of sterile temporary wards, installing and commissioning life-saving oxygen and gas systems, as well as laying 23,000 square meters of vinyl flooring. Balfour … Read more

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