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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Multiplex Moves Forward with University of Glasgow’s Research Hub

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Plans for a new £113m University of Glasgow, Scotland research hub have been given the green light by the city council. Multiplex will now proceed with full-scale building work on the scheme, after beginning piling works onsite earlier this month. The 17,000-square-meter research hub, designed by HOK Architects, will be the first building to be constructed on the 14-acre site of the former Western Infirmary, a teaching hospital in the city that closed down in 2015. Part of a wider £1bn campus development program, masterplanned by AECOM and 7N Architects, the hub will be a vibrant, collaborative facility at the … Read more

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STRABAG Subsidiary ZÜBLIN Receives Contract to Build Nuremberg School Center

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The Ed. Züblin AG, a subsidiary of the listed European construction group STRABAG SE, was commissioned to plan and implement the new construction of the Bertolt Brecht School in Nuremberg, Germany. The contract amount is € 108 million and the construction period is scheduled from November 2018 to November 2021. The cooperative school center consists of a municipal high school, a municipal secondary school and a state middle school. With its sports classes, the BBS is a so-called “partner school of competitive sports” and was awarded as the Elite School of Sports (German Olympic Sports Federation) and Elite School of … Read more

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