Milton District Hospital Expansion Certified Gold

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PCL Constructors Canada Inc.’s Milton District Hospital expansion has attained Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Gold certification for new construction with the Canada Green Building Council. The 330,000-square-foot expansion at MDH, which opened in October 2017, achieved the certification after earning 60 credits in the green building rating system. Halton Healthcare worked in partnership with Infrastructure Ontario, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and Plenary Health on the redevelopment project, which included the relocation and expansion of the emergency department, surgical services, medical/surgical inpatient units, intensive care unit, maternal newborn department, diagnostic imaging and support services including kitchen … Read more

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Fluor-Led A27/A1 Motorways Widening Project Opens to Traffic in the Netherlands

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Fluor Corporation’s project to widen and upgrade A27/A1 motorways in the Netherlands has officially opened to traffic. The upgraded motorways connect Utrecht North and the Eemnes Junction, as well as the A1 motorway between the Eemnes Junction and the Bunschoten-Spakenburg connection. The project was awarded in 2016 by the directorate-general for infrastructure and water management of the Netherlands [Rijkswaterstaat] to the 3Angle B.V. special purpose company, comprising Fluor, 3i Infrastructure and Heijmans Capital. Construction of more than 23 kilometers (14.3 miles) of motorway has now been completed, increasing the A27 to two three-lane traffic lanes and the A1 motorway to … Read more

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Balfour Beatty JV Awarded Hong Kong Theatre Project

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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

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An Intimate Look at Denmark’s New Noma Restaurant Village

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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

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Turner Selected for Expansion of Turkish Glass Factory

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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

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