Jacobs Wins Contract from INEOS for LAO Unit in Texas
PASADENA, Calif. - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE:JEC) announced today it received a contract from INEOS Oligomers to design and build a large linear alpha olefin (LAO) unit at the INEOS petrochemical complex in Chocolate Bayou, Texas. The LAO unit is expected to come online in November 2018, with a production capacity of 420,000 metric tons per annum. Jacobs is providing engineering, procurement and construction services for the new unit, which is based on proprietary and differentiated...
Ratch Australia Appoints AECOM for $360m Mount Emerald Wind Farm
SYDNEY — As a result of its deep technical capability in the renewable energy space, AECOM has recently been appointed as the Owner’s Engineer for the A$360 million, 180 Megawatt (MW) Mount Emerald Wind Farm in North Queensland. AECOM, the premier integrated infrastructure firm, will use its local and international wind farm experience to assist with all key technical aspects of the 53 turbine project. Working alongside the Ratch project team, AECOM brings a deep understanding of constructabi...
Gilbane Building Company Begins Construction of the Luxury 1000 Park Avenue Project
Atlanta, Georgia – September 2016 – This signature high-rise residential tower will be located in the heart of the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta. Gilbane Building Company, a leader in construction services and multi-unit construction, is serving as the construction manager for Wood Partners, a progressive multifamily investment firm in Atlanta. The 27-story luxury tower will offer 267 units of apartments and four stories of parking with podium-level parking deck and private garage options....
Imperial College White City Handover
Laing O’Rourke has handed over a £200m science building to Imperial College London. The Translation & Innovation Hub will be located on the college’s 25-acre White City Campus in West London. The new site houses laboratories, incubator and accelerator space as well as flexible office space, and will provide a place for corporate partners, fast-growth companies, spin-outs, start-ups and entrepreneurs to work alongside Imperial academics to grow ideas and translate cutting-edge research into...
‘Living Walls’ Can Play Significant Role in Tackling Toxic Air Hot Spots in Cities
Cities are being encouraged to ‘turn green’ to help tackle rising toxic air hot spots. The report shows that the contribution of ‘green building envelopes’, such as moss and vegetated walls, vertical farming and roof gardens, has been underestimated. Worldwide, 3.7 million premature deaths in 2012 were attributed to exposure to poor air quality. Approximately 200,000 of these were in Europe and 900,000 in south-east Asia. Green envelopes, often dismissed as “architectural window dressin...
AECOM Selected by INDOT for MAASTO Truck Parking Design
LOS ANGELES — AECOM, a premier, fully integrated global infrastructure firm, announced today that it has been selected by the Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) to provide design services for its initial Truck Parking Information Management System (TPIMS) deployment. This project is part of the Mid-American Association of State Transportation Officials (MAASTO) US$25-million Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant to provide innovative solutions to critica...
Unicorns Exist. They Live in Sweden
It’s Tuesday morning and 20 people are gathered around a table, facing a large screen. What they are looking at is a 3D model of the new subway line in Stockholm, a massive and very complex project. They are all specialists with different expertise and they are discussing the location of a new emergency exit to the station “Odenplan”, in the centre of Sweden’s capital. The Virtual Reality (VR) specialist then turns the model around to figure out whether the suggested locations might collide w...
Fluor Completes Citral Facility for BASF PETRONAS Chemicals
IRVING, Texas & KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that it has achieved mechanical completion on a citral facility and associated infrastructure for BASF PETRONAS Chemicals in Kuantan, Malaysia. As part of the Integrated Aroma Ingredients Complex, Fluor performed front-end engineering and design, engineering, procurement and construction management on the citral facility and its associated infrastructure. The facility will produce citral, among other aroma...
Clark Celebrates Milestone on the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Project
SAN FRANCISCO – After nearly a year of construction, Clark has completed the steel structure for San Francisco’s new Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in the city’s Bayview neighborhood. San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, city officials, and local residents watched as the final beam of the two-story, 46,000 square-foot building was hoisted into place. Clark is working hand-in-hand with San Francisco Public Works and KMD Architects to deliver the state-of-the-art facility. From the project’s outse...
New Ways with Nye Veier
Building roads in Norway is rumoured to be expensive and slow. In January 2016, a new governmentally owned company called Nye Veier was launched. Their bold goal is to build roads faster, cheaper – and more innovative. And Ramboll has ceased the opportunity. Recently the company won a large contract and have already started working on the 50,000 hour job. “Use of experts from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the UK was a winning factor”, says Ruth Gunlaug Haug, Division Manager from Roads Rambo...
Stormwater Interview with Robert Page, P.E., Vice President, HNTB
Santa Barbara County North Branch Jail Expansion
February Issue 2026
