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BAM Nuttall wins major contract for Olympic Park

Olympic Park Legacy Company has awarded BAM Nuttall (the UK civil engineering company of Royal BAM Group NV) contracts to ‘Clear, Connect and Complete’ the Olympic Park. BAM Nuttall has won two separate contracts to deliver €90 million (£76 million) of improvement work in the North Park and South Park areas of the site.

The contract includes removal of several temporary venues, such as a warm-up track, a basketball arena, water polo pool and spectator stands and the Athletes’ Training Centre at Eton Manor. BAM Nuttall will also connect the surrounding communities to the heart of the Park with new footways and cycle paths. This will require the reconfiguration of 30 Games-time bridges and underpasses to improve public access.

Several facilities will be converted for alternative use. For example, the Press and Broadcast Centre will be prepared for incoming tenants after removing the catering village and gantry and BAM Nuttall will create the Velopark including the addition of a 1.6km outdoor cycle circuit and a 6.5km mountain bike trail. Visit: www.bam.eu

Astaldi wins new contract for the Jonica National Road

Astaldi Group, as leader of the Astaldi SpA-Impregilo SpA joint venture (in which Astaldi holds a 60% stake), has been awarded the general contracting project to construct Mega-Lot 3 of the Jonica National Road (NR-106) in Italy, worth a total of €791 million.

The project will consist in the works to upgrade the section of the Jonica National Road running from the junction with National Road 534 (NR-534) to Roseto Capo Spulico, measuring a total of approximately 38 kilometres. The planned total duration of activities is 7 years and 8 months, 15 months of which for design activities (final and executive design) and activities needed prior to the start-up of works, and the remaining 6 years and 5 months for the construction phase. Visit: www.astaldi.com

HOCHTIEF sets up joint venture for offshore wind farms 1

HOCHTIEF Solutions and Ventizz Capital Partners have set up a joint venture for the development of offshore wind farms. The two partners each hold a 50% interest in the company HOCHTIEF Offshore Development Solutions Srl. The partners are aiming to tap further earnings potential in the high-growth market for offshore wind energy.

Plans include, for example, to acquire and develop wind farm concessions and capitalise on the resulting value growth by selling them on before construction begins. The new company will focus on readying the subsequent construction of the wind farms in a way that significantly reduces the risk of cost overruns and delays. This will benefit the companies that later go on to construct and operate the wind parks at the sites concerned, avoiding risks seen on projects currently in progress. The company will thus help advance the German government’s target of 10,000 megawatts of installed capacity in the German offshore wind power market by 2020. Visit: www.hoctief.com

Mostosal wins waste plant contract

The City of Sosnowiec, Poland, has awarded Mostosal a contract for the construction of a Municipal Waste Processing and Treatment Plant. The contract, worth almost PLN 60 million, will be carried out in consortium with Acciona Infraestructuras SA.

The goal of the project is to upgrade the existing plant in Sosnowiec to meet the appropriate Polish and EU requirements and ensure that the city of Sosnowiec will be able to further treat waste in an environmentally safe manner for many years to come.

The scope of work covers construction and assembly works, supply and assembly of technological equipment. Mostosal will build green waste composting installations, a bulk waste dismantling station, a hazardous waste warehouse, a construction materials warehouse and chambers for waste containing asbestos.

It will also be responsible for training the plant team. Visit: www.mostosal.waw.pl

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Bouygues Construction to build new Paris Law Court complex

The Arelia consortium and the Etablissement Public du Palais de Justice de Paris (the governing body of the Paris Law Courts), acting on behalf of the French Government, have signed a contract for the financing, design and construction of the new Paris Law Courts complex, and the provision of maintenance and upkeep services for a period of 27 years.

Under the contract, Bouygues Bâtiment Ile-de-France will be responsible for design and construction, for a total of €575 million. Exprimm, a subsidiary of ETDE (the Energy and Services division of Bouygues Construction), will provide facilities management services for the complex for an annual sum of €12.8 million.

The future Paris Law Courts building will unite five facilities currently spread all around Paris in a single location. Located in the Batignolles urban development zone, it will house the Paris regional court, the police court and the public prosecution service. It will also include the district courts attached to each of the capital’s arrondissements. Visit: www.bouygues.com

Better concrete testing

Costain is the first company in the UK to receive formal approval to use new concrete testing technology that is quicker, safer and more environmentally friendly to use than the traditional method of testing.

The new lightweight single use cylinders are used to take concrete samples for strength testing. Developed and tested in collaboration with Innovation Technologies, a company based in Surrey, Costain Environmental Services was given formal accreditation by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) after trialling the technology for nine months.

While already widely used in the US and Europe, the lightweight cylinders are relatively new to the UK. Due to their reduced size and weight, they are easier to carry and can be transported in bulk, which cuts carbon dioxide emissions by reducing the amount of trips needed to transport them. Visit: www.costain.com

NCC to build out Oslo Gardermoen Airport

NCC Construction Norway has signed an agreement with Oslo Lufthavn AS for foundation engineering and concrete work at Gardermoen Airport for a total of approximately SEK 475 million. Gardermoen is beginning to reach its capacity ceiling and will be expanded with a new pier, thus expanding arrival and departure halls to increase capacity. NCC’s contract pertains to the expansion of the Sentralbygning Vest (Central Building West).

NCC secured the construction contract on the basis of several criteria, of which NCC’s extensive expertise in concrete work was central, together with a reliable and realistic schedule and excellent proposals for technical execution, as well as its solutions for logistics and cooperation with other contractors during the project. Visit: www.ncc.se

Impregilo subsidiary awarded new motorway concession in Brazil

EcoRodovias, of which Impregilo International Infrastructures NV holds joint control, has won the BR 101 motorway concession bidding process in the state of Espirito Santo, Brazil.

The contract strengthens the Impregilo Group’s international positioning in the concessions business, and in motorways in particular, where it now manages approximately 2600km of infrastructure in Brazil, Argentina and Colombia.

The BR 101 is a 476km highway linking the state of Rio de Janeiro with the state of Bahia. The initiative requires the operator to improve and expand the motorway doubling the present carriageway and installing new toll stations. With the acquisition of the new BR 101 motorway concession, Ecorodovias, which is listed on the São Paulo stock exchange, now manages an infrastructure network of approximately 1900km in Brazil, as well as important logistic terminals and intermodal platforms in the south and south-east of the country. Visit: www.impregilo.it

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STRABAG wins Polish Expressway contract

Representatives of Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (GDDKiA) and STRABAG subsidiaries HERMANN KIRCHNER Polska as well as STRABAG Sp. z o.o. have signed an agreement to build an approx. 40km section of the Expressway S8 with a contract value of about €254 million. Work is set to begin in January and is expected to last 27 months.

In addition to the construction of the four-lane expressway using concrete technology, the 19km section of S8 between Walichnowy and Zloczew, situated approx. 240km south-west of Warsaw, comprises construction under traffic of a junction to the busy National Road 45 as well as of 16 bridges. The extremely difficult geological conditions require the subsoil to be strengthened with a total of 60,000m of piles and 700,000m of geotextiles. The construction works will be carried out by the group subsidiaries HERMANN KIRCHNER Polska, STRABAG Sp zoo and HEILIT+WOERNER Budowlana Sp zoo. Visit: www.strabag.com

Transportation infrastructures project in Poland - the construction of 106km of A2 Motorway between Nowy Tomysl and Swiecko.

Veidekke to build office building for Diligentia in Malmö

Veidekke Entreprenad has started work on building the first of Diligentia’s new commercial buildings in the new Masthusen city district in Malmö. It will be an office building with space for around 100 employees with shops on the ground floor. The value of the contract is approx. SEK 110 million excluding VAT.

“We are currently developing the new city district of Masthusen in Malmö’s Västra Hamnen. It is to become a city district that is alive around the clock. The assignment of building the first commercial building requires a professional project group. That was why we chose Veidekke,” says Andreas Ivarsson, market area manager for Diligentia in Malmö.

The office building is to be heated using geothermal heat, and will have a floor area of approx. 9300m, whereof approx. 7000m are offices and 1800m shops. The building will be six storeys high and have a dark brick and limestone façade. Takeover will take place in December next year. Visit: www.veidekke.se

YIT expands its residential production into a new city in Moscow region

YIT has won the auction for the sale of lease rights to a land plot in the city of Lytkarino, Moscow region. This means that the geographic scope of YIT Moskovia’s activity will include one more city in Moscow region.

Lytkarino is located close to Moscow 15km away from the Ring Road and has the status of a ‘green zone’ adjoining the large Tomilino forestpark. The Moscow River flows close to residential districts, and there is a unique man-made lake with a sand beach which is a favourite place for local citizens and visitors from Moscow.

Construction of the new residential micro district is planned to be launched by YIT Moskovia in 2012. The plan is to construct in different phases seven modern high-rise houses of about 79,000m2 . Visit: www.yitgroup.com

GDF SUEZ, VINCI and CDC Infrastructure to build and operate wind farms off the coast of France

GDF SUEZ, VINCI and CDC Infrastructure have submitted their bids to the French Government to develop offshore wind energy, further to a call for tenders covering an expanse off the coast of France, encompassing 3000 MW of wind energy, from 2015.

GDF SUEZ, VINCI and CDC Infrastructure are bidding on four of the five zones identified by the State as holding potential: Courseullessur-Mer (Calvados), Dieppe-Le Tréport (SeineMaritime, Somme), Fécamp (Seine-Maritime) and Saint-Brieuc (Cótes d’Armor).

GDF SUEZ, VINCI and CDC Infrastructure will combine their complementary expertise in renewable energies and the construction of major infrastructures, to put forth the best bid.

Xavier Huillard, CEO of VINCI, stated: “VINCI provides its partners with comprehensive know-how in finance packaging, fully-mastered technical solutions to address the complete range of operating conditions underwater and on the ocean floor.” Visit: www.vinci.com