Turkish company Hakan Mining and Electricity Generation Industry Inc. has signed a power purchase and concessional agreement with Rwanda to design, build, finance, own, operate and transfer an 80-MW peat-to-power plant on the eastern African country’s marshland area of Gisagara, located on the border with Burundi.
Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction has filed suit to challenge a directive by Namibia’s President Hage Geingob halting a $477-million airport upgrade the company was awarded in early December.
Residential sector rises 5% from last month, but non-residential projects dip 1% and the non-building category declines 2%, Dodge Data & Analytics reports.
A cloud-based project-management software company releases new apps and pulls back the veil on its app marketplace, boasting plug-in partnerships in construction-relevant fields, from accounting to drone operations.
Aiming for an economic boost as part of China’s anticipated Silk Road corridor to Europe, the republic of Georgia has picked a local-U.S. joint venture, backed by global investors, to develop a $2.5-billion deep-sea port at Anaklia on the Black Sea.
Two recent employer surveys from ManpowerGroup predict no change in employment numbers from the majority of respondents in the construction and IT sectors.
A planned $2-billion flood-control project for the Fargo, N.D.-Moorhead, Minn., metro area allocates $5 million worth of construction funding from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in its 2016 work plan, said Terry Williams, corps project manager in St. Paul.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. (LACSD) accused two phony engineers of using stolen software to forge the engineering seal and signature of a former employer.
A combination of economics, technological advances and rapid change in the electricity business has halted a Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) project to construct a 400-MW pumped-storage hydroelectric project.
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