PORR, ORTNER to Deliver MCI Campus in Innsbruck

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The consortium PORR ORTNER will deliver the new campus of MCI | The Entrepreneurial School in Innsbruck, Austria by 2024 on behalf of the province of Tyrol. The consortium emerged as the winner of the award procedure, held as a “competitive dialogue.” The project has a contract volume of EUR 135m. As a Design-Build contractor under a partner model, the PORR ORTNER consortium assumes overall responsibility for the design and construction of the MCI Campus right through to its turnkey handover. In this future-oriented model for executing complex projects, all parties involved are integrated into the joint planning, costing and … Read more

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Construction Seasons Begin at Antarctic Research Hub

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A 20-person-plus team is working on the second season of building a new science and operations building located in Antarctica. Construction can only take place during a short window during the Antarctic summer months, avoiding the harsh, dark winter. This season, the team aims to complete the pre-cast concrete foundations, ground floor slab, rock anchors and stub columns, as well as drainage and the perimeter wall, before returning in December to complete the outer structure. The scientific support facility, named the Discovery Building, commemorates the discovery of Antarctica just over 200 years ago. Facilities in the new two-story 4,500-square-meter building … Read more

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New Waipapa Building at Christchurch Hospital in New Zealand Accepting Patients

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Patients are now being cared for in the new Waipapa building at the Christchurch Hospital, located in New Zealand. The Waipapa building, formerly known as the Acute Services Building, is the largest hospital project ever delivered in New Zealand and has been constructed to stringent seismic requirements. CPB Contractors delivered the new facility for New Zealand’s Ministry of Health. The Waipapa building includes: New emergency department and operating theaters Expanded intensive care unit Children’s facilities Radiology department Rooftop helipad The new child health spaces feature a beautiful new patient playground, the Matatiki Hub, and an activity room. Parents and caregivers … Read more

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One of Largest UK Retaining Structures Installed on Sunderland Strategic Transport Corridor

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Esh Construction, Aarsleff Ground Engineering and Sunderland City Council have worked in collaboration to deliver four significant retaining structures in a geotechnical engineering feat on Phase 3 of the Sunderland Strategic Transport Corridor, located in England. In just over 12 months, a soil nail wall formed at a 70 degree angle up to 12 meters high and 250 meters in length, a large kingpost retaining wall 250 meters in length, 85 meters of contiguous bored pile reinforced concrete retaining wall, and a 65-meter reinforced concrete L-shaped wall supported on continuous flight auger-piled foundations, have been installed. The £40m SSTC3 project … Read more

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Largest International Airport in Southeast Asia Celebrated with ‘Witness Happiness’ Event

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CSCEC recently held a “witness happiness” cloud open day event at the new Phnom Penh Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Covering an area of 2,600 hectares, the airport, when completed, will be a 4F-class airport, the highest-class airport in the world. The new Phnom Penh Airport will be able to accommodate the takeoff and landing of the Airbus A380 (with a takeoff weight of up to 560 tons), the world’s largest wide-body passenger aircraft. As the 2023 Southeast Asian Games will be held in Cambodia, the airport will serve as the national gateway of Cambodia to receive tourists from all … Read more

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