Laing O’Rourke formally Appointed Delivery Partner on £1Billion Redevelopment of Edinburgh St James
Laing O’Rourke has been formally appointed as the construction partner to deliver the £1 billion landmark redevelopment of the Edinburgh St James centre. TH Real Estate and Dutch pension asset manager, APG have formed a joint venture to develop one of the UK’s largest private sector regeneration projects. The 1.7 million sq ft retail and leisure centre development represents one of the largest inward investments for Scotland this year. Edinburgh St James will comprise 850,000 sq ft of retail...
The Nature Conservancy Entrusts CH2M to Design Oyster Habitat Restoration in Florida
DENVER, Oct. 20, 2016 - The Nature Conservancy selected CH2M to manage the monitoring, permitting and design of a 6.5-mile restoration project, which will help restore a healthy, functioning oyster habitat in East Bay near Pensacola, Florida. The Pensacola East Bay Oyster Habitat Restoration Project is the first phase in a multi-year effort to restore this critical estuarine habitat system that has been significantly reduced from its former range across the Gulf’s bays and estuaries. Phase 1...
ICA Fluor Awarded Gold and Silver Project in Mexico
IRVING, Texas & MEXICO CITY - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that ICA Fluor, its industrial engineering and construction joint venture with Empresas ICA, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV and NYSE: ICA), was awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management contract by Minas de La Alta Pimeria S.A. de C.V. (MAPSA), a subsidiary of Goldcorp, for the Pyrite Leach Project in Zacatecas, Mexico. Fluor booked its share of the undisclosed contract value into backlog in the third quarter...
AECOM Engineer Designs World Record-Breaking LEGO Bridge
AECOM engineer Dr Robin Sham has designed a Guinness World Record-breaking suspension bridge made entirely out of LEGO. The 31 metre long bridge is at the centre of a new exhibition that celebrates the civil engineers who have created some of the world’s greatest bridges. The Bridge Engineering exhibition at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London opens today for a six-month period. The exhibit demonstrates the complex challenge of creating such a vast suspension bridge using only...
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff Providing Services for Port Covington Development Infrastructure Improvements
BALTIMORE, MD – WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is providing advisory, coordination and technical services to the Baltimore City Department of Transportation (BCDOT) for the revitalization of Port Covington, a $5.5 billion plan to transform an industrial section of Baltimore City into a thriving, dynamic neighborhood featuring shops, restaurants, homes, businesses and public parks. The Port Covington project, being developed by the Sagamore Development Corporation, is expected to include the const...
Bechtel Delivers Largest Greenfield Program in Its 118-year History
Following a six-year global design and construction effort, Bechtel announced today it has completed construction of the Curtis Island LNG program with Australia Pacific LNG starting sustained production from Train 2 of its facility. Bechtel has now delivered all six liquefied natural gas (LNG) production trains to three customers – QGC, Santos GLNG, and Australia Pacific LNG – on Curtis Island, off the shore of Queensland, just north of the city of Gladstone. The three simultaneous construc...
Woolpert Providing Engineering Services for Dayton Metro Library Project
DAYTON, Ohio — The Dayton Metro Library has contracted with Woolpert to provide engineering services for several branches—Miamisburg, West Carrollton, West and Southeast—as part of the library’s comprehensive facilities upgrade. The upgrade, made possible by a $187 million bond levy passed in 2012, intends to transition the facilities from the traditional “books and bricks” libraries to modern community centers with cutting-edge technology. “They’re redefining libraries and building on the...
Parsons Awarded 3-Year Contract for Blue Water Bridge
PASADENA, CA – Parsons has been awarded a 3-year contract by the Michigan Department of Transportation to provide structural services for the Michigan-owned portion of the Blue Water Bridge. The Blue Water Bridge crosses the St. Clair River connecting Routes I-94/I-69 in Port Huron, MI, with Highway Route 402 in Point Edward, Ontario, Canada. This twin-span international bridge serves as a gateway linking Canada and the United States and is the second busiest crossing between the two countries....
Stantec to support Habitat for Humanity’s 2017 Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project in Canada
Stantec will be part of Habitat for Humanity Canada’s biggest build project ever. Habitat for Humanity’s 34th Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project will be taking place in every province and territory across Canada with a goal to collectively build 150 homes to mark Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, will be visiting Canada from July 9-14, 2017, focusing their efforts in Edmonton, Alberta, and in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Habitat...
CH2M 3D Virtual Reality Tools Bring Revolutionary Improvement to Global Project Design
DENVER - CH2M was recently presented with a challenge from a strategic global client: “Show us something completely new and innovative in engineering design and delivery.” The firm jumped at the opportunity to demonstrate some of the its latest innovative and client-centric solutions in virtual reality design technology. CH2M has developed a highly effective approach for leveraging affordable and readily available virtual reality (VR) viewers and the latest VR hardware as it hits the market....
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February Issue 2026
