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The Ariz-Basauri stretch of Bilbao's metro forms the end of Line Two, and was constructed as part of project's fourth phase. There are two stations constructed in this section, Ariz [...]

Bogong power station in Australia was always envisaged as part of the Kiewa Valley hydroelectric development in Victoria, but it was never built. However project owner AGL recognised that completion [...]

The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is engaged in an extensive program to upgrade the present water delivery system to satisfy the water supply needs of 46 communities and 2.4 [...]

The 2160 MW Caruachi power plant in Venezuela is one of the most talked about projects in South America. Industry experts reveal construction plans for the $2.lbn station, which will [...]

The Superconducting Super-Collider (SSC) Laboratory is a technologically advanced high-energy physics research facility. When completed, it will house the world's most powerful particle accelerator and the largest detectors. The SSC [...]

THE reconstruction of Kuwait is not the mammoth task that was once expected. Outside the oil sector, the pace of awards and volume of work have been modest compared with [...]

Oman tourism is to benefit from a giant development including a marina, several hotels and more than 1,000 villas and apartments. The deal between property company Orascom Hotels and Developments [...]

Question marks still linger over the Mayoral Commission's recommendation to build a pounds 300m convention centre in central London, following approval by the London Development Agency. Although support for an [...]

Specialist contractor PCE has topped out the Isle of Man's new Pulrose power station with a 24m architectural stainless steel spire atop a 75m high tower stack. PCE was responsible [...]

* Oman Refinery Company set an October deadline for bids to build a diesel hydro-desuiphurisation unit at its Minaal-Fahal refinery. The 1 8-month contract covers the supply and installation of [...]

Paige Wilson [*] William O'Rourke and Paige Wilson (*) summarise the engineering and construction of the Antamina project Bechtel's involvement with the Antamina project has so far spanned a four-and-a-half-year [...]

* Oman Just RO 40,000 ($105,000) separates the two lowest bidders for the contract to build a new hospital in bra. The Tender Board received bids from six companies for [...]

A four-strong Danish consultancy group headed by COWI signed in late September the first-phase contract for the planned Qatar-Bahrain causeway project. Valued at DKr 60 million ($7.4 million), the 10-month [...]

The local Khansaheb Civil Engineering signed on 5 September a AED 240.4 million ($65.5 million) contract for the first package on the Dubai convention centre project (MEED 17:8:01). The contract [...]

Saudi Arabia The first unit has been commissioned at the Ghazlan power station in the Eastern Province, Saudi Electricity Company (Eastern Province) director-general Saad Mansour announced in late July. A [...]

n A third runway, due to open at Finland's main airport Helsinki-Vantaa in November 2002, will provide an immediate 40% increase in runway capacity. When the terminal and apron operations [...]

The Thunder Bay Regional Hospital remains at the top of the list for major construction projects in the City of Thunder Bay for 2001. The hospital, with a price tag [...]

The US' Callison has been awarded a contract to carry out preliminary designs for a project to build a retail centre and a show area on the second phase of [...]

A letter of intent for the main construction contract on the San Stefano development in Alexandria has been issued to a consortium of South Africa's Murray & Roberts Contractors (Middle [...]

UAE The local Al-Hashemi Consultants has been appointed consultant for a project to construct four lowcost office blocks at Dubai Internet City (DIG). The project is estimated to cost AED [...]

* Syria Japanese and Syrian officials on 23 April celebrated the rehabilitation of Banias power station, which was financed by a Japanese grant totalling about $9 million. The refit is [...]

* Saudi Arabia A request for expressions of interest has been issued for an estimated $1 million-5 million contract to build anew operations centre at the Prince Sultan Air Base. [...]

Kalba hospital: 10 lowest bidders (AED million) [] SS Lootah Contracting Company 69.5 [] AI-Moosa Contracting (Poineer) 74.9 [] AI-Shafar General Contracting Compa 78.6 [] AI-Hamed Development & Construction 78.9 [...]

UAE The local SS Lootah Contracting Company has submitted a low bid of AED 69.5 million ($18.9 million) for the Kalba hospital project in Sharjah emirate. Twelve local companies submitted [...]

Oman's other ammonia/urea project, the Suhail Bahwan Trading Group proposal for a $450m complex at Sohar, in the north of the country, has pre-qualified the five contractors who are interested [...]

Plenty River has completed its feasibility study on the projected 600,000 t/a ammonia and 726,000 t/a urea plants, to be sited on the Burrup Peninsula in Western Australia. The cost [...]

Kvaerner has announced that it has been awarded the engineering design contract for a 5,000 t/d (1.65m t/a) methanol plant at Point Lisas on Trinidad. The award has come from [...]

The Agriculture & Fisheries Ministry has invited bids for a contract to build a new harbour in Saham, in the northern Al-Batna region. The scope of works covers land reclamation, [...]

Last month, Lurgi Metallurgie signed a contract with Union Miniere Pirdop Copper (UMPC) to upgrade the Pirdop plant in Bulgaria in compliance with European environmental standards within a two year [...]

The UK's National Power on 17 July was formally awarded the 275-MW Al-Kamil independent power project (IPP), bringing the first stage in Oman's fast-track utility privatisation programme to realisation. Al-Kamil [...]

A group of investors led by Germany's Steag is to build a $1,500 million power plant in Iskenderun, in the southeast. A financing agreement for the 1,210-MW, coal-fired plant was [...]

A $50 million contract awarded to Romania's Industrialexport for work on a refinery project has been cancelled by the client, Alexandria Petroleum Company (APC). Project sources say the client is [...]

An Israeli partnership (Electra Dirum Construction Company) will build a 40-storey commercial tower costing $70 million in Warsaw, Poland. The tower will include apartments, offices, a shopping mall, restaurants and [...]

Kaltenbach-Thuring has completed work on an 80,000 t/a ammonium nitrate plant at Cubatao in Brazil for Ultrafertil. Detailed engineering work was conducted by local engineering firm Jaakko Poyry [...]

Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR) has confirmed that it has been awarded contracts from Ferrostaal and the Caribbean Nitrogen Company (CNC) to build a 620,000 t/a ammonia plant at Point [...]

* Kuwait South Korea's LG Engineering has started engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) work on the gas-oil-desulphurisation (GOD) plant at the Mina al-Ahmadi refinery after being awarded a KD 28.5-million [...]

* The local Aziz Company has been awarded a SR 96 million ($26 million) contract for construction of a new 100,000-cubic-metre-a-day sewage treatment plant at Riyadh for the Water & [...]

* Seven groups representing 17 banks in all submitted financial offers on 9 April for the $442 million Sohar and Salalah gas pipelines project. A finance committee made up of [...]

Shortlisted international contractors are to be invited in the next few weeks to bid for the construction of the Cairo Financial Centre, an ambitious new development situated just to the [...]

Athens-based Consolidated Contractors International Company (CCC) and Dodsal of India have been awarded letters of intent for two subcontracting packages, each worth $60 million, for the Qatar Chemical Company (Q-Chem) [...]

The US/German Alliance Bechtel Linde is understood to have had its scope of works expanded at the site of the Abu Dhabi Polymers Company (Borouge) petrochemicals project in Ruwais. Sources [...]

Three international groups are expected to submit bids by the end of January to build a fifth 130-MW steam turbine generating unit at Yanbu industrial city for the Royal Commission [...]

Bids were submitted on 15 January by local and international contractors for the main package on the Royal Plaza commercial building project in central Doha. Details on the bidders or [...]

The country's sole polyvinyl chloride (PVC) manufacturer Electrochemical Industries is negotiating with several companies the construction of a new power station at its site in Acre. The 30-MW plant will [...]

A partnership of the US' Contrack International and the local AA Nass Contracting has won a $20 million contract from the US Army Corps of Engineers for the expansion of [...]

South Korean and Chinese firms have been awarded two contracts together worth about $250 million to expand facilities at Isfahan Steel Company (Isco) in the central city. Samsung Corporation is [...]

* UK consultancy group Mouchel has announced that it is acting as detailed design consultant to Belgium's Six Construct for the new container terminal serving the Ruwais polyethylene complex. Six [...]

Project manager picked for airport expansion The US' Parsons International has been awarded the project management contract on the estimated $600 million Abu Dhabi International Airport expansion project. Five other [...]

Contractor selected for NBAD headquarters The local Al-Habtoor Engineering Enterprises, in joint venture with South Africa-based Murray & Roberts Contractors (Middle East), has received a letter of intent to build [...]