Norwegian road authority Nye Veier has selected BERINOR ANS, a joint venture of Besix and Rizzani de Eccher, to further develop the E6 Moelv-Roterud motorway project.
World Bank has signed an $82m financing deal with the state government of Himachal Pradesh in India to fund the $303.4m Himachal Pradesh State Roads Transformation Project to improve traffic flows on priority segments of the state’s core road network.
Strabag’s subsidiary Strabag Rail, in consortium with Czech partner OHL ŽS, has been awarded a €106m contract to upgrade 9.6km section of track from Dětmarovice to the Polish border in the Czech Republic.
Construction firm BAM has handed over the first phase of the £41m Health Innovation One building to Lancaster University in the UK.
UK-based construction firm Higgins has secured a £22m contract from Brent Council in the UK for housing redevelopment of Hillside and Milton Avenue sites.
The Power Transmission & Distribution Business of Indian construction firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has secured an order to construct power transmission lines and substations related to an infrastructure project in Telangana, India.
Engineering services provider Egis and its subsidiary Projacs have secured a contract from Riyadh Airports to project management consultancy services for airside projects at King Khalid International Airport (KKIA).
US-based real estate developer Thompson Thrift announced that its subsidiary Watermark Residential had acquired nearly 24 acres of land in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where it plans to develop The Grove by Watermark, a 320-unit apartment community.
Willmott Dixon has been selected by the Bedfordshire Police for the construction of a new £18m custody suite, replacing a temporary variant at Kempston headquarters in the UK.
Construction has officially commenced on the UK’s £106bn HS2 high-speed rail project, which runs between London and Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
The Province of British Colombia in Canada has awarded a contract, worth C$1.728bn ($1.31bn) to a joint venture (JV) of Spanish firm Acciona and Italian company Ghella to deliver the C$2.83bn ($2.08m) Broadway Subway Project.
Developer Helical along with its joint venture partner Ashby Capital has appointed UK-based firm Mace as its construction partner to construct a new office project in Farringdon, UK.
Royal Boskalis Westminster (Boskalis), a Dutch marine infrastructure services company, has secured two installation orders, including a floating wind farm and a suspension bridge.
The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has agreed to provide €50m to the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality for the Izmir Metro Expansion Phase 4 in Turkey.
Brookfield Properties has topped out the A$2bn ($1.4bn) office and retail development connecting Wynyard Station to George Street in Sydney’s central business district (CBD) in Australia.
Construction firm Lendlease has commenced construction on new £286m prison in Leicestershire, UK.
Austrian construction company Porr announced that it has completed excavation work for the construction of the 80m Franklinturm building to be located in Zurich, Switzerland.
Gulf Related, a partnership between Gulf Capital and US-based real estate firm The Related Companies, has inaugurated Antara, an SAR1bn ($267m) residential development in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $274.2m financing to upgrade 240km of highway in the western part of Uzbekistan.
Construction technology group Strabag, in a joint venture with Leonhard Weiss, has secured €700m contract for the construction of a 31km section of the A49 public-private partnership motorway project in Germany.