Balfour Beatty’s 50/50 Far East joint venture, Gammon Construction, has been awarded a HK$5.5-billion works contract of the Lyric Theatre Complex and Extended Basement by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong to construct the final stage of the Lyric Theatre Development. Works include the construction of a world-class theater complex that comprises of a 1,450-seat lyric theater, a 600-seat medium theater and a 270-seat studio theater, as well as numerous dance and rehearsal studios, restaurants, offices and information and ticketing center. Gammon has supported the delivery of the development of the Lyric Theatre Complex since 2016 when … Read more
An Intimate Look at Denmark’s New Noma Restaurant Village
The award-winning restaurant noma worked with BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group to create its new home as a restaurant village just outside of Copenhagen’s city center. Situated between two lakes and within the community of Christiania in Denmark, the new noma is built on the site of a protected ex-military warehouse once used to store mines for the Royal Danish Navy. Imagined as an intimate culinary garden village, guests are welcomed to experience a new menu and philosophy that will redefine noma for years to come. Central to the design was the idea of dissolving the restaurant’s individual functions and organizing them … Read more
Turner Selected for Expansion of Turkish Glass Factory
Turner has been selected as project manager for an expansion of the Sisecam TR8 Glass Factory in Ankara, Turkey. Sisecam Flat Glass is a leading European glass producer, with manufacturing facilities in multiple countries. They produce glass for architectural, automotive, solar and home appliance applications. The TR8 Glass Factory is an industrial flat glass factory that serves as an expansion to an existing plant in order to produce colored flat glass. With a total building area of 60,000 square meters (645,000 square feet), the new facilities will include a furnace building, bath building, cooling and cutting house, a warehouse and … Read more
Sanfield-Gammon Construction Joint Venture Wins Sai Sha Road Widening Project
Gammon Construction Limited, in joint venture with Sanfield (Management) Limited, has been awarded an approximately HK$2.3-billion project to widen Sai Sha Road in Shap Sze Heung, Sai Kung in Hong Kong. The civil project involves widening of a section of the road from two lanes to dual two lanes, development of a cycling track, installation of noise barriers, implementation of greening works to compensate for the affected trees, construction of three footbridges and extensive water and sewage utility provisions, including two pumping stations and installation of sewage pipes by tunnel boring machine along existing roads 2.1 kilometers north of the … Read more
Fluor Joint Venture to Design, Build LNG Canada Project
LNG Canada has made the final investment decision to build its liquefied natural gas export facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada. Fluor Corporation’s joint venture with JGC Corporation will provide the engineering, procurement, fabrication and construction on the project. Fluor will book its $8.4 billion share of the about $14 billion contract value in the fourth quarter of 2018. The project scope will initially consist of two liquefaction units (trains) for a total of approximately 14 million tons per year of LNG. LNG Canada has the option to expand to four trains in the future. “Fluor delivered its first project … Read more