RZD The work involved laying and ballasting the rail line, rebuilding a bridge and installing signalling gear. The northeast corner of North Korea, adjacent to China and Russia, is showing incipient signs of development. The Rason Special Economic Zone, where foreign investment is permitted, includes an ice-free port and offers potential as a trans-shipment point. China needs greater access to the sea to assist in moving cargo out of its landlocked northeast provinces. China leases one pier at Rason’s port to ship coal to southeast China and has offered to lease two additional piers. But Rason’s electricity grid is antiquated,
In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration owns, builds and operates most control towers and provides air-traffic-control services at 264 airports.In contrast, air-traffic control in some countries is privatized. For example, Nav Canada, a private non-profit corporation, has been responsible for air traffic control since 1996 in Canada, and other countries in which private air-navigation-service companies operate include Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, the Ukraine and Indonesia.Air-navigation technology
Northern Ireland's first new hospital in ten years was also the first project in Northern Ireland to be built under a public-private partnership agreement.
Related Links: Haiti Fires Up Oil-Fired Power Plant Italy Turns to Oil-Fired Power Plants as Russia Trims Supply While oil plays a commanding role in global energy markets, its position as a fuel source for electric powerplants ranges from dominant in certain countries to modest or non-existent in others.Oil is mostly used by countries who have abundant supplies of it, such as the Persian Gulf countries, Russia and Venezuela. “If you don’t have to use oil, you’re not going to build oil-fired plants unless you’re sitting on it,” says Chris Bergesen, editorial director for UDI Productsat Platts—like ENR, a unit
Related Links: ENR Building News The World's Tallest Building The essential function of all tall towers is to enable broadcasters to transmit line-of-sight signals to their customers."Broadcasting is a big stick industry, where one tower can cover a whole market," according to Kelly Williams, senior director of Engineering for the National Association of Broadcasters. "You put up a tower to facilitate broadcasting wirelessly."Towers host a wide variety of antennae, which transmit over the air (analog) television signals, AM and FM radio, telco long lines (which transmit data), pager signals and emergency service channels (including two-way radio).But tower owners have long
Related Links: Engineering News Record Architectural Record Bid/Proposal DatesOregonThe City of Sandy is seeking bidders to build the Portland Water Bureau inter-tie project. The project entails building a 1-million-gal, partially-buried circular prestressed concrete reservoir; a 1-million-gal-per-day potable water pump station; a 1.5-mgd potable-water package pump station; 13,190 ft of 24-in.-dia transmission main; and 13,800 ft of 18-in.-dia transmission main. The work also includes electrical controls and connections into existing water, sewer and storm drain systems. The project is valued at $10 million. City of Sandy, Attn: Mike Walker, Public Works Director, 39250 Pioneer Blvd., Sandy, 97055. DR#12-00677795. Contracts/Bids/ProposalsWashingtonThe Berschauer Phillips
Sports facilities range from Olympic and World Cup venues, professional team stadiums, to high school and college facilities. Professional sports team owners often push the envelope in their quest to build excitement for and attendance at their events. Some major residential and resort developers also build record-breaking recreational facilities as drawing cards.The sports construction market sector has suffered along with the overall market downturn in recent years. According to McGraw- Hill Construction Research & Analytics, the value of construction starts of sports facilities in the U.S. has declined from $4.8 billion in 2006 to $2 billion in 2011.Some firms have
Crystal Lagoons Corp. Lagoon-like structure on the Sinai Peninsula will use similar technology to one built by the same developer in Chile in 2006, but the Egyptian pool will be larger. Crystal Lagoons Corp. The pool, seen here in an early construction photo, will be the centerpiece of a luxury resort and residential development. What appears to be a dried-up pond in the middle of a vast construction site at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt could set a new record as the world’s largest swimming pool. Details are sketchy, but Crystal Lagoon is set to be the