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Laing O’Rourke wins £920m animal health super-lab job

Construction Enquirer

The job, awarded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, will see O’Rourke take the project, consisting of two main buildings, through detailed design and construction. O’Rourke will lead a full multidisciplinary supply chain including MEP, biocontainment, and design specialists.

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Equans suffers £29m loss as new build exit drags on

Construction Enquirer

Equans Regeneration continues to battle heavy losses from its retreat from the new build housing market. But the firm, bought by French construction giant Bouygues in 2022, said its new core focus on student new build, energy retrofit and housing refurb markets was starting to advance operational profitability. the previous year.

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Nashville airport unveils $247M Concourse D extension

Construction Dive

The total cost of the build was $247 million , per the Nashville Business Journal. Greeley, Colorado-based Hensel Phelps and Denver-headquartered Fentress Architects made up the project’s design-build team. Construction involved 715 total workers, 79% of whom were local, according to the release.

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STV Celebrates Opening of First Major Flyover Ramp at Loop 1604 in San Antonio 

Civil + Structural Engineer

SAN ANTONIO, TX STV, a leading professional services firm that plans, designs and manages infrastructure projects across North America, today celebrated a major milestone on the Loop 1604 North Expansion project with the opening of the first flyover ramp at I-10. STVs CEI work included the installation of 62,150 tons of concrete, 10.25

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Infrastructure costs keep rising. Consider these approaches to mitigate them.

Civil + Structural Engineer

The resulting insights can help design and implement comprehensive risk sharing and mitigation strategies. For example, Federal Highway Administration and Washington Department of Transportation have been designing and implementing best practices to help deliver the promised projects in accordance with the target costs and planned schedules.

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Works begin on Ballarat Station accessibility upgrade

Roads Online

Plans to improve accessibility at Ballarat Station include installing a pedestrian overpass with a passenger lift and stairs to both platforms, a new ramp and stairs to the northern station entrance, lighting and tactile upgrades, and landscaping. Crews will also start relocating communications services in the project area.

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Preliminary Work Planned for $2.2B Patient Care Tower in Iowa

ENR Construction

To make way for the new tower, the Iowa Board of Regents , which governs public higher educational institutions in the state, recently approved spending about $75 million for the enabling work and granted a request to demolish a parking ramp, a water tower next to Kinnick Stadium and the Wendall Johnson Speech and Hearing Center.

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