by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | International News
Swedish construction firm Skanska has a contract worth approximately NOK3bn ($339m) from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration for the construction of a highway in Norway.
Under the terms of the contract, the company will be responsible for the construction of a motorway between Bærum and Hole municipality in Eastern Norway.
The project aims to replace the existing road with a modern four-lane motorway, which is expected to improve the safety and accessibility for the travellers on what it claimed to be an important exit and transport route in Eastern Norway.
The scope of the work will include the construction of four tunnels and eight bridges.
The company said that on the new 8.4 km-long road, approximately three million cubic metres of different masses will be moved
by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | International News
US-based Granite Construction has won a $101m contract for the construction of Segment 4C (Summerland) of the Highway 101 Santa Barbara to Carpinteria project in Southern California.
The contract has been awarded by the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans).
Under the contract, Granite will serve as the construction manager/general contractor (CM/GC) for the project.
It is the second contract that has been awarded to Granite of the five-segment $410m CM/CG project.
Construction on the project is underway and is expected to be completed by August 2023.
by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | International News
The state government of Western Australia has awarded a contract to the Mitchell Extension Joint Venture (MEJV) to deliver the A$215m ($162m) Mitchell Freeway extension in Western Australia (WA).
MEJV is a consortium of BMD Construction and a building and civil construction company Georgiou Group.
The freeway extension begins from Hester Avenue in Clarkson to Romeo Road in Alkimos and is expected to improve safety and reduce the travelling time from the Narrows Bridge to Alkimos.
Additionally, it will reduce the congestion on the freeway and local road networks within the outer northern suburbs of Yanchep, Butler, Alkimos, Eglinton and Nowergup.
The government said that the major construction works at the project is expected to commence early next year, with completion planned for late 2022.
by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | International News
The government of Uganda has commissioned Bumbobi-Lwakhakha road, which was recently upgraded from gravel/earth road to bitumen standard roads.
The road has a width of 10 m. This includes a 7 m carriageway that features two lanes each of which is 3.5 m wide. The road also has paved shoulders on either of its sides, each measuring 1.5 m in the rural area and 2.0 m wide in trading centres.
The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) was the implementing body for the Bumbobi-Lwakhakha road project.
An additional 3.5 m wide parking lanes were constructed in built-up areas along the route. The width of the existing road has been widened in certain places, and all the existing culverts extended and headwalls replaced.
by Sawon Banerjee | Jan 15, 2021 | International News
Japanese construction firm Penta-Ocean Construction has been awarded a S$932.8m ($697m) civil contract for the construction of the Johor Bahru – Singapore Rapid Transit System (RTS) Link.
The contract involves the construction of the RTS Link Woodlands North station, tunnels and the Customs, Immigration, and Quarantine (CIQ) building in Singapore.
The Johor Bahru–Singapore RTS is a rail shuttle service between the Singapore terminus at Woodlands North station and the Malaysia terminus at Bukit Chagar station in Johor Bahru.
The construction work on the project is expected to start in the first quarter of next year and the passenger services expected to begin in the end of 2026.
At present, it is building the Bright Hill and Orchard stations on the Thomson-East Coast Line (TEL) and has previously worked on the TEL Woodlands North station as well as the Downtown Line’s Bendemeer station.
