AECOM to Provide Detailed Design Services for Hong Kong International Airport’s Third Runway Passenger Building
Hong Kong – Nov. 7, 2016 – AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today it has been awarded the detailed design consultancy work for Hong Kong International Airport’s (HKIA) new passenger building, part of the HK$141.5 billion Three-runway System (3RS) project. The design proposal for this state-of-the-art facility will deliver a great passenger experience and innovative retail offerings. With a floor area of 280,000 square metres, the spacious passenger buil...
Gilbane Building Company Breaks Ground on Cypress Point Senior Living Facility
Fort Myers, Florida – Gilbane Building Company and Omega Communities along with the project team and local community, came together to celebrate the official ground breaking of the senior living community located in Fort Myers, Florida. The project will bring 134 units to the market. 96 of the unit will be assisted living offering 102 beds as well as 38 memory care units. The 105,000-square-foot building, located on a five-acre site, includes new construction of three structures which are co...
Michael Baker International Contributes Team and Resources to Build Suspension Bridge with Bridges to Prosperity, Benefiting 2,000 Residents in Nicaragua
Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services, partnered with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), a nonprofit organization dedicated to constructing footbridges in remote, underdeveloped areas of the world, to sponsor the construction of a suspension footbridge in El Zarzal, Nicaragua. The team chronicled their experience in images and an interactive timeline, available on Michael Baker’s website. Twelve volunteers from across Michael Baker geographies...
Fluor Announces Award of Sasol Oxygen Train Project in Secunda, South Africa
IRVING, Texas & JOHANNESBURG - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it was awarded a contract by Sasol Group Technology, a division of Sasol South Africa (Pty) Ltd, for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the Additional Oxygen Capacity Train 17 Outside Battery Limits project at its Secunda plant in South Africa. Fluor will book the undisclosed contract value in the third quarter of 2016. The Additional Oxygen Capacity Train 17 project comprises the constructio...
Jacobs in Joint Venture for Bruce Highway Upgrade Project in Australia
DALLAS - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today its appointment, as a member of the Fulton Hogan Seymour Whyte Joint Venture (FHSW JV), to provide design services for the Bruce Highway Upgrade – Caloundra Road to Sunshine Motorway in Queensland, Australia. The $860 million (USD) project involves upgrading the highway to six lanes and delivering major upgrades of the Caloundra Road and Sunshine Motorway interchanges in one of Queensland’s highest priority road projects. Th...
Fighting Illini’s Historic Arena More Exciting, Comfortable, Iconic than Ever
CHAMPAIGN, IL (Nov. 2) — State Farm Center, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s historic arena, has re-opened after a renovation designed by AECOM to introduce a full suite of modern amenities for student-athletes and fans. Targeting a LEED Gold certification, the upgrades complement a midcentury-modern design by Max Abramovitz that has been a defining feature of the campus for more than 50 years. The men and women’s basketball teams will both play their regular season home opener g...
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Named CM for Express Lanes Project in Contra Costa County
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CA – The Contra Costa Transportation Authority has awarded a contract to WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff for construction management services for the completion of the I-680 HOV (high-occupancy vehicle) Express Lanes project. The Authority, in cooperation with the California Department of Transportation, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, and the Federal Highway Administration, seeks to improve traffic operations and relieve congestion with the construction of HOV express...
Iconic Projects Honoured with Global Architecture Award
At a great ceremony at the ASLA Conference in New Orleans Monday, Ramboll and Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl officially received two ASLA Professional Awards: One 'Honor Award' for the Bishan Ang-Mo Kio Park Project in Singapore (click for description) and one 'Award of Excellence' for the concretisation of the Copenhagen Cloudburst Mitigation Plan (click for description). Selected from 456 entries, the ASLA Awards honour top public, commercial, residential, institutional, planning, communications...
NYC’s Second Tallest Tower Starts
Ground was broken Oct. 18 on One Vanderbilt Avenue, a 1,401-foot class A office building that will become the second tallest tower in New York City. Thornton Tomasetti’s Construction Engineering practice is providing connection engineering and Tekla modeling services to development manager Hines to help the project team meet its aggressive construction schedule. The 1.6-million-square-foot building, designed by architects Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, is scheduled for completion in 2020. A de...
Fulton Center Wins 2016 FIDIC Award
Fulton Center was recently selected for a 2016 International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) Outstanding Project of the Year Award. FIDIC, the international “parent” organisation to ACEC, presents awards each year to projects that help world economies and communities develop a higher quality of life. With a commitment to integrity and sustainability, FIDIC awards projects based on the principles of innovation, transparency, and respect for the environment. Fifty international qu...
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