AECOM to Develop Sydney Gateway Road Project in Australia

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AECOM has been selected to provide the civil engineering design for Sydney, Australia’s $2.6-billion Gateway Road Project, a new 5-kilometer, above ground, toll-free connection from the recently opened St. Peters Interchange to Sydney airport, Port Botany and beyond. Completing this missing link in the Sydney motorway network will improve traffic flow around the airport and toward New South Wales’ busiest container port, taking thousands of large trucks off local streets and providing a more efficient and safer connection to the domestic and international terminals for visitors and workers. Alongside Arcadis in a design joint venture, AECOM will support the John … Read more

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PORR Wins S16 Expressway Infrastructure Project in Poland

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PORR S.A. and the Polish General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways signed a contract for Design-Build project for the S16 expressway Olsztyn-Ełk, in the section from Borki Wielkie to Mrągowo. The 13-kilometer-long expressway section will be built within a three-year period along with the construction of the Mrągowo ring road. The contract is worth around EUR 115m. The contract covers the design and construction of a dual-carriageway express road running from Borki Wielkie to Mrągowo with two lanes in each direction, paved over with asphalt, as well as Mrągowo’s ring road. Some sections will be realized as single-carriageway roads … Read more

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Bechtel, Enka Partner to Build ‘5G Motorway’ in Serbia

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A joint venture between Bechtel and Enka has won a contract tendered by the government of Serbia for a 112-kilometer motorway. The dual carriageway will link the central Serbian towns of Pojate and Preljina, and will connect to the north-south motorway running between Hungary and North Macedonia. It will also link with trans-European corridors X and XI, which connect Austria with Greece and Italy with Romania. Bechtel describes the development as “5G ready,” since a telecom corridor will be dug underneath the side of the road to allow for future 5G fiber and tower installations. The Bechtel and Enka team … Read more

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Hill International Awarded Contract to Deliver New Mumbai Transit Link in India

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Hill International has received a contract from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority to provide the general consultancy services for the $2.26-billion Mumbai Metro Line 4 as part of a consortium consisting of DB Engineering & Consulting GMBH as the lead partner and Louis Berger Consulting Pvt. Ltd. as another partner. The project consists of a 32.3-kilometer elevated corridor and includes 32 stations along the Wadala-Ghatkopar-Mulund-Thane-Kasarvadavali corridor. Hill is serving in a consortium whose general services will comprise design review, project management and construction supervision. The project is expected to reduce current travel times by 50-75 percent, according to officials.

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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Begins Work on World’s 1st Full-Scale Passenger, Freight System

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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies has received the first set of tubes designed to move both people and freight to their research and development center in Toulouse, France. With an interior diameter of 4 meters, the system is optimized both for passenger capsules and shipping containers. The first phase includes a closed 320-meter system that will be operational this year. In addition, a second full-scale system of 1 kilometer elevated by pylons at a height of 5.8 meters will be completed in 2019. Both systems are fully upgradeable and will be utilized by both HyperloopTT and partner companies. The full-scale passenger capsule, … Read more

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