BAM Construction Begins Work on Second Paradise Building

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Construction group BAM has begun work on the second building at Paradise, Birmingham, Two Chamberlain Square in the United Kingdom. The 183,000-square-foot contemporary office building joins One Chamberlain Square in fronting the enhanced new public realm that will complete the first phase of the Paradise development. Between them, the speculative buildings offer more than 350,000 square feet of office and retail space and are due to be completed in late 2019. BAM, which was appointed back in 2017, will oversee a team of over 200 construction workers, which will deliver the building and erect two new tower cranes that will … Read more

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VINCI Construction Completes Tunneling for Automated Metro Line B in Rennes

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VINCI Construction, through a joint venture led by Dodin Campenon Bernard and including GTM Ouest and Botte Fondations, both subsidiaries of VINCI Construction France, along with Spie Batignolles TPCI, Spie Fondations and Legendre Génie Civil, has completed tunneling Line b, the second automated metro line in Rennes, France, for regional authority Rennes Métropole and transport authority Semtcar. Line b will run between the southwest and northeast of the urban area and will serve 15 stations by 2020. After 38 months of operation, tunnel boring machine Elaine, specially designed for this project, arrived at its exit shaft. At the end of … Read more

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PORR to Build Rail Tunnel for Erdinger Ringschluss at Munich Airport

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Flughafen München GmbH has charged PORR with the extension of the existing railway tunnel, which will be expanded by around 1.8 kilometers to the east. The project cost is roughly EUR $110 million. The tunnel will primarily be driven using the cut-and-cover method. What makes this project special is the exceptionally tight timeline relating to the eastern area of the airfield of the satellite terminal, where around 250 meters of the tunnel will be built. Once the works on the airfield begin, there will be a nine-month construction period for building the tunnel and fully restoring operations on the airfield. … Read more

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New Bridge Opens Across UK’s Biggest Road Project

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The A14 Integrated Delivery Team, comprised of Balfour Beatty, Skanska and Costain, has completed the second of 34 bridges and main structures on the UK’s biggest road project. The newly opened bridge forms part of Highways England’s £1.5 billion major improvement scheme on the A14. The project will see the upgrade of a 21-mile stretch of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon from two to three lanes in each direction including a brand new 17-mile bypass south of Huntingdon. Connecting Brampton and Grafham in Cambridgeshire, the new bridge is 50 meters (54 yards) longer than the previous bridge as it … Read more

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Gammon Construction Wins Contract for Lyric Theatre in West Kowloon Cultural District

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Gammon Construction Limited has been awarded a HK$1.5 billion contract by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority in Hong Kong to deliver the extended basement and public infrastructure works for the L1 Contract for Lyric Theatre Complex and Extended Basement at WKCD. The project involves excavation and lateral support followed by construction of a two-level reinforced concrete structure, as well as public infrastructure works including drainage, a traffic lay-by and associated temporary works. The contract is Gammon’s third award from the WKCDA. It is also carrying out foundation works for the theatre, for which it has twice received the Authority’s … Read more

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