Construction and Infrastructure

Sulaiman Al-Rumaih, vice president of the Energy and Industrial division of the Tamimi Group, talks about the dynamic expansion of the business within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and beyond. Jayne Alverca reports.

Steel making facilities in Singapore are among the most modern and ecologically sound to be found anywhere, as Alan Swaby learns.

There’s no doubt that Singapore punches well above its weight. Barely 40 kilometres at its widest, the island is so developed that buildings can only go skywards. And despite decades of development, work continues at a rapid rate, with the construction industry consuming over 1.25 million tons of reinforcing steelwork each year.

ECG Engineering Consultants Group S.A. is a group of highly qualified consultants whose expertise in large and complex projects covers all major disciplines of design and construction management/supervision and lies behind some truly outstanding building throughout the Middle East and beyond.

A Balfour Beatty joint venture has been awarded a £414 million contract by Bord Gais Networks in the Republic of Ireland.

The infrastructure group, along with CLG Developments Ltd, was awarded the nine-year contract for the installation and maintenance of vital gas transmission and distribution networks across Ireland, including the delivery of new construction, emergency response and planned maintenance services.

Work will begin early in the New Year, Balfour Beatty said.

AHEB Investment Group and Quicksilver Project Management have formed a joint venture to create the largest biomass-to-energy installation in the world as part of a new UK eco-park.

The Centre of Excellence Eco-Park, based on a sustainable ecological design, will be spread across 300 acres of land and boast a large waste-to-energy facility in addition to the world's largest aquaponics installation.

Vulcan Materials Company, the largest producer of construction aggregates in the US, has confirmed that Raleigh, North Carolina-based Martin Marietta Materials has made an unsolicited offer for the company.

Birmingham, Alabama-based Vulcan said it would “carefully review the proposal and determine the course of action that it believes is in the best interests of the company and its shareholders”.

There’s a mining boom in Namibia that is placing extra demands on electricity supply—necessitating a complete restructuring of the industry, as Alan Swaby learns.

Let a private company sell below cost for any length of time and it will inevitably end up staring down the barrel of disaster. But when the seller is a public body, it’s much easier to fudge the true situation and avoid a similar fate.

French power utility EDF has announced plans to construct a 900 MW supercritical coal-fired power plant on the Rybnik site in Poland.

The project, worth around €1.8 billion, will involve the replacement of the four oldest units at the Rybnik plant with a single, more efficient one.

EDF said the advantage of the supercritical technology is its capacity to achieve the highest net efficiency in the market—equivalent to 45 per cent.

United Engineering Construction (UNEC) is responsible for some of the most innovative and iconic buildings in the United Arab Emirates. Now, it has its sights set on neighbouring Arabian markets and the Maghreb.

Proposals for a four-runway airport in the Thames Estuary were unveiled yesterday by Lord Foster, the founder of UK architects Foster & Partners.

The Thames Hub would encompass a new flood barrier and river crossing, rail and shipping infrastructure and an international airport at the Isle of Grain in Kent.

The project was unveiled by Foster & Partners alongside planners and builders Halcrow and consultancy group Volterra.