Construction and Infrastructure

Birmingham Highways Limited (BHL) the purpose vehicle (SPV) between joint shareholders Equitix and PIP Infrastructure Investments has published a shortlist of two prequalified contractors for the operation and maintenance of the Birmingham PFI road network project.

For the next 12 years, the GBP2.7 billion (USD3.33 billion) project will operate and maintain 2,500 kilometres of road, nearly 100,000 street lights, and over 850 highway constructions and bridges throughout Birmingham, England's West Midlands region.

Perhaps more than any change currently underway in Africa, the continent’s ongoing massive investments in developing the infrastructure's economic enablers point to a highly prosperous and brighter future. The pace of progress is furious.

Anyone who has read about World War I in any depth will be familiar with the Battle of Çanakkale - also known as the Gallipoli Campaign. When British and French forces attacked Istanbul in an attempt to overthrow the Ottoman Empire, they got quite a lot more than they bargained for. The Turkish resistance was so mighty that it became encapsulated in the now common Turkish phrase: “Çanakkale is impassable.” And now, over a century later, it gives its name to a megaproject.

Despite a national history of international wayfaring, strong domestic infrastructure, and several world class companies spread across multiple industries, Portugal’s companies have been relatively slow to globalize, when compared to companies from other European countries. Thanks to the example set by a small cohort of companies, the renowned construction company Mota Engil among them, that may all be about to change.

A Scottish-based manufacturing facility which will enable the production of lower carbon cement products has secured a £500,000 award from Zero Waste Scotland’s Circular Economy Investment Fund.

Metro Istanbul first inaugurated its urban rail systems in 1988 by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality. The company, which continues its activities as a subsidiary of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), operates the existing metro, tram, and funicular and cable car lines in Istanbul.

The Paris Metro is renowned the world over for being a work of art as much as a transit system. A total of 86 of the system’s stations retain their original art nouveau-inspired entrances, a throwback to the Belle Epoque. But this historic beauty, undoubtedly part of the metro’s charm, also tells of its need to modernize. 100 years ago, the Paris urban area held a population of less than 5 million people. In 2021, that number has tripled.

Transportadora de Energía de Centroamérica S.A. –TRECSA– is a Guatemalan subsidiary of Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) which provides management, development, operation and maintenance services for energy transportation infrastructure. Through electrical infrastructure and state-of-the-art technology, the company transports reliable and safe energy to Guatemala. 

It is a long-held open secret of Rome that the city is traversed underground by a labyrinth of tunnels. The city’s tunnel network has been used for everything from catacombs to mushroom farming, and from bomb shelters to an unofficial sewer system. Protecting the historic legacy of this tunnel network is just one of the engineering challenges that the team behind Roma Metropolitane has to overcome in bringing the project to realisation.