The rich history of Islamic architecture and the beauty of the region's palm trees and volcanic mountains inspired the design of the $1.2- billion Prince Mohammed Bin Abdulaziz International Airport expansion in Medina, Saudi Arabia—the first public-private aviation project and concession in the country and the Gulf region.
What might have taken months of lane closures took a fraction of that time during installation of a 2,860-ton, tied-arch cable-suspension bridge over a major highway.
In October 2013, when SUMMA Turizm Yatirimciligi A.S. signed its design-build contract for the $68.3-million Dakar International Congress Center in Senegal, the race began to produce the 14,270-sq-meter project in just one year.
Photo Courtesy U.S. State Dept. Photo Courtesy U.S. State Dept. Related Links: 2015 Global Best Project Awards The $110-million phase one of a project to relocate the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane, Laos, has put in place some 7,673 sq meters of office space on a 7.4-acre site south of downtown.A $35-million, phase-two project has entailed the remodeling and repurposing of an existing compound in the city's center into a recreational and cultural outreach facility. Phase one finished in October 2014 on schedule and under budget, and phase two is on track for completion in September 2015.The general contractor, BL Harbert
Visitacion Development LLC is planning to build a mixed-use development on a site at the intersection of Bayshore Boulevard and Leland Avenue in San Francisco.
Few construction professionals are more familiar with today's infrastructure crisis than the staffers of the country's various departments of public works-and few are more misunderstood. Unlike larger public owners that shepherd attention-grabbing mega-projects, DPW officials are routinely labeled as wrench-turning, snow-removing, garbage-collecting civic servants charged with small-potatoes projects not worthy of national interest.DPWs are frequently stereotyped as managers of the nation's "roads and commodes, with the big yellow trucks for pushing snow," says Kurt Blomquist, public-works director for Keene, N.H., and a member of the American Public Works Association.ENR's "Low & Slow Across America's Infrastructure" road trip visited with dozens
Courtesy of SOM / SOM | AtChain Near Cairo, the 35-acre campus will contain 9 million sq ft. Construction is scheduled to begin by the end of the year on the 9-million-sq-ft campus of Egypt's National Cancer Institute. When the campus is finished, NCI, already the largest comprehensive cancer center in the Middle East, Europe and Africa, will be able to serve 1.7 million patients each year.The campus, located on a 35-acre site in Giza’s Sheik Zayed City, also will be an international center for cancer research and education. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP is the architect and master planner;
If all goes as planned, the growing season for lettuce and herbs will begin before year-end in a 69,000-sq-ft converted steel plant in Newark, N.J.Crews are transforming the plant into a $30-million vertical farm. The team includes the grower AeroFarms, which will be headquartered there, and the building owner-developer, RBH Group.When completed, AeroFarms will have the capacity to grow up to 2 million lb per year of baby leaf greens and herbs in an environmentally controlled, safe and sanitary facility, says AeroFarms, which hopes to create a model for sustainable indoor farming.Annual production per sq ft will be 75 times
There had been a magnificent palace next to the River Spree in central Berlin since the 15th century, apart from a few decades after World War II. With the recent topping out of a huge concrete structure on the same site, a Baroque-style replica is taking shape in the German capital, but the project still needs $30 million more for the facade.After some 27 months of work, Hochtief Solutions A.G., Hannover, finished the structure of the emerging Berlin Palace–Humboldtforum on June 12, formally completing its $53-million core-and-shell contract on time and on budget, says Bernd Pütter, Hochtief’s chief spokesman.With 100,000
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