China State Construction to Manage Hong Kong Palace Museum Project

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Recently, China State Construction Engineering (Hong Kong) Limited (a subsidiary of China State Construction), won the bid for the Hong Kong Palace Museum Project. The project is located at the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong. It is the first pavilion established by the Palace Museum with the name “Forbidden City” outside of Mainland China. The total gross floor area of the project is about 43,000 meters, and the scope of works includes a seven-floor main museum building with surrounding parking lots and supporting traffic facilities. The Hong Kong Palace Museum Project is a key cultural project proposed in … Read more

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Skanska Develops Parkview Complex in Prague

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The Pankrác project of developer company, Skanska, called Parkview, is under construction in Pujmanová street in Prague 4, opposite the Pankrác Central Park. After its completion in the second quarter of 2020, the nine-floor building, designed by the New York Architectural Studio, Richard Meier & Partners, is to offer almost 16,000 square meters of top-class office space. A quarter of the building—almost 4,000 square meters, has already been leased by IWG for its co-working center, Spaces. One of the most notable features of Parkview will be its clean white façade and an airy atrium incorporating greenery, which will serve to … Read more

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CPB Contractors Wins $463M Sydney Metro Station Project

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CIMIC Group’s company, CPB Contractors, has been selected to build the new Sydney Metro City & Southwest Pitt Street Station. The NSW Government has awarded the contract, part of Sydney Metro, Australia’s biggest public transport project, which will generate revenue of approximately $463 million to CPB Contractors for design and construction of the station. The Integrated Station Development will provide a 250-meter-long underground Pitt Street Station running from Park Street to Bathurst Street, between Pitt and Castlereagh Streets, connecting the two station entries with retail and other commercial facilities. In addition, CPB Contractors will work with Oxford Properties Group for … Read more

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CPB Contractors Awarded Auckland International Airport Works

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CIMIC Group company, CPB Contractors, has been awarded Auckland (New Zealand) Airport’s Taxiway Mike and Remote Stands Stage 2 project, a critical component in the facility’s major capital works program. The contract will generate revenue to CPB Contractors of approximately NZ$221 million over the next two years. Works include construction of an additional taxiway, extension of an existing taxiway and six remote stands with in-ground jet fuel reticulation, as part of a major expansion at New Zealand’s largest and busiest airport. The project includes 900,000 cubic meters of earthworks, laying 130,000 cubic meters of aggregate basecourse,168,000 square meters of concrete … Read more

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Balfour Beatty Living Places to Deliver UK’s First Highway Living Wall

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Balfour Beatty Living Places and green infrastructure experts, Biotecture, are set to deliver a UK first on behalf of Southampton City Council, as works to install the first hydroponic living wall on a highway’s scheme commenced this summer. Hydroponic living walls are sustainable, vertical installations containing living plants and foliage which grow without the need for soil. Offering many benefits to the public and the environment, these green and living structures help to remove air pollutants through the absorption of gases such as carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, as well as hazardous particulate matter. Forming part of the … Read more

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