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Skanska, the Swedish-based public works & construction firm, has sold its 50% equity holding in Walsall Manor Hospital near Birmingham, UK, to Barclays Infrastructure Funds Management Limited. The £17 million…
October 11, 2012Read More
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation are to work with Dredging International (part of DEME) on a subcontract to dredge 26 million cubic metres of clay and rock around the Wheatstone…
February 14, 2012Read More
I am guilty of having written against the idea of just rebuilding the chaos. Following the devastating 2010 Haitian earthquake, it seemed as if all of Port-au-Prince had been destroyed.…
January 19, 2012Read More
Skanska has sold its 50% share in the Midlothian Schools project to the co-investor, Barclays Integrated Infrastructure Fund, for £3 million. The publicly listed Swedish infrastructure company built the schools…
January 3, 2012Read More
The United States’ Agency for International Development has awarded a combined contract to three separate companies to provide water and energy development projects in Afghanistan. Construction, engineering and support services…
December 8, 2011Read More
Skanska have been awarded the contract to build HMP Grampian, a new prison for Northern Scotland. The 500 place facility will house both male and female inmates and will replace…
November 14, 2011Read More
The Shanghai Tower, currently being built in China, will feature the world’s fastest elevators with the lifts carrying passengers up and down the building at a rate of eighteen metres…
September 28, 2011Read More
An affiliate of Exxon Mobil Corporation, SeaRiver Maritime, Inc., has signed a letter of intent with Aker Philadelphia Shipyard for two new tankers. The shipyard will deliver the 250m long,…
July 26, 2011Read More
According to the Kenyan Economic Survey 2011, an ongoing effort to improve the construction industry has seen cement consumption rise by 16.2 per cent to 3.1million tonnes in 2010, compared…
June 20, 2011Read More