Gammon Awarded Data Center Project in Singapore

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Gammon Pte. Limited, a subsidiary of Gammon Construction Limited, has been awarded a data center project in Singapore for Global Switch, an owner, operator and developer of large-scale, carrier and cloud neutral, multi-tenanted data centers across Europe and Asia-Pacific. Located in the Woodlands area of Singapore, the data center will comprise a six-story precast structure containing 10 data suites and infrastructure. It will be built to achieve LEED Gold and Green Mark Platinum standards utilizing Building Information Modeling through design development, construction, operation and maintenance. The data center is due to launch later this year. Global Switch’s Singapore Woodlands data center is … Read more

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Balfour Beatty Completes £63M Rossall Coastal Defense Scheme

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Balfour Beatty has successfully completed the £63-million Rossall coastal defense scheme for Wyre Council in partnership with the Environment Agency. The scheme, located in Lancashire, England, forms part of the largest-single investment in coastal flood defense by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The scheme will protect the town’s tramway, hospital and schools whilst reducing flood risk to 7,500 nearby residential properties through two kilometres of sea defenses. To successfully complete the Rossall project, over 10,000 specially manufactured precast concrete units were lifted into position, alongside 86,342 tons of rock underlayer and 241,000 tons of rock armor sourced … Read more

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PCL Wins Excellence in Green Building Award for Humber River Hospital

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The Canada Green Building Council awarded PCL Constructors Canada Inc. (Toronto) and its partners with its 2018 Excellence in Green Building: New Construction Institutional Award for Humber River Hospital, in recognition of the team’s leadership in delivering a new construction project that exemplifies the merits of sustainable building. “On behalf of our partners, we are grateful to the CaGBC for celebrating the outcomes of our vision for Humber River Hospital, which was designed and built on three core principles: Lean, Green, and Digital,” notes HRH President & CEO Barb Collins. “This award is a testament to the tremendous collaborative efforts … Read more

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Collaboration, Prefabrication Streamlined Construction of Finland’s New Children’s Hospital

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Construction of the New Children’s Hospital at Meilahti, Helsinki has been completed. The project’s main contractor, SRV, has handed over the hospital to its future user, the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, two months ahead of schedule. The original target date for completion was the end of June. The New Children’s Hospital will open in autumn 2018 and will replace the outdated premises of the present Children’s Hospital and Children’s Castle Hospital. Construction began in August 2014 with earth construction and excavation work. Preparations for the future commissioning of the building were made during the construction phase; for example, … Read more

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Balfour Beatty Collaborates to Transform London Bridge Station

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The UK’s fourth busiest railway station, London Bridge, has been officially reopened by Prince William the Duke of Cambridge following a £1+ billion transformation carried out by Network Rail in collaboration with Balfour Beatty and other partners. The transformed station will nearly double its passenger capacity and enable more and faster connections for passengers. The five-year build included a major track upgrade, a new rail underpass on the approach to the station and platform widenings and extensions, all of which means 30 percent more trains can use the station than before. Balfour Beatty contributed extensive track remodeling, civil engineering and … Read more

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