Hill & Smith Holdings says it has delivered a performance in the first half of 2011 in line with the outlook given at the time of the full-year results in March.
RBF Consulting has been selected by the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority to provide transportation planning and engineering for the Measure R funded I-605 Congestion 'Hot Spots' Feasibility Analysis.
Only the last section of the Trans-Sahara highway remains to be built. The 4,600km highway is close to completion with just a 223km stretch in Niger requiring construction.
A civil engineering tender worth U$4.73 billion for work in Saint Petersburg, Russia, has been awarded to a consortium of Russian, Italian and Turkish companies.
A report from the VDMA (the German Engineering Federation) says that mid-year business situation is highly diverse for companies in the German construction equipment and building material machinery industries.
Key highway projects are being planned in Vietnam. The Ninh Binh-Thanh Hoa expressway will run 127km and is expected to cost US$1.6 billion to construct. The Nghi Son-Bai Vot expressway will cost $1 billion to build and Vietnam's Ministry of Transport (MoT) hopes to source a loan from the World Bank for this project. Vietnam's MoT is putting the projects through the tender process at present. The deals will be made under either the build-operate-transfer (BOT) or public-private partnership (PPP) models. So
