Tutor Perini Building (TPBC), a subsidiary of US-based civil, building and specialty construction company Tutor Perini, has been selected by the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma to design and build the Choctaw Casino and Resort expansion project in Durant, Oklahoma, US.
TransStroyMekhanizatsiya (TSM), a subsidiary of Russian heavy construction company Mostotrest, has won a RUB5.1bn ($75m) contract from the Voronezh Region Transport and Road Department to build the Southeast Bobrov Bypass in the Bobrov Municipal District.
Spanish company Ferrovial, through subsidiary Cintra, has achieved financial closure on the Ruta del Cacao toll road concession in Colombia.
American e-commerce giant Amazon has announced that it will establish its second headquarters (HQ2) at a site in Northern Virginia, US.
UAE-based property developer Aldar Properties has awarded an AED335m ($91m) contract to Al Rakha Contracting and General Transport for the infrastructure buildings and early works package for the first neighbourhood in Phase Two of its AED10bn ($2.72bn) project Alghadeer, located near the border of Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Sheffield Resources has signed two agreements that will advance and de-risk development of the Thunderbird Mineral Sands Project in northern Western Australia.
CapitaLand has won a bid for a mixed-use scheme on a 4.7-hectare greenfield site in Huangpu district within Guangzhou Science City in Guangzhou, China, for RMB882m ($127m).
Scottish company Morrison Construction has been appointed for the construction of the University of Edinburgh’s new Health and Wellbeing Centre at 7 Bristo Square, to promote health and wellbeing for students.
ITM Monitoring, a SOCOTEC Group company, has secured a contract from Transport for London (TfL) to provide critical baseline measurements, including manual monitoring of the surrounding assets such as the Emirates Air Line and Docklands Light Railway viaduct, for the £1bn Silvertown Tunnel, a twin-bore road tunnel under the Thames in east London.
Saudi Arabia has announced a new airport development project in Yemen, which will accommodate two million travellers a year.
Zaha Hadid Architects, together with TPO Pride Architects (Russia), has been selected as one of the consortiums to build the new Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye smart city in Russia.
Amey Consulting has won a £49.7m contract to design the motorways and major A roads in Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire and South Lancashire in the North West of the UK.
The Teachers’ Retirement Board, trustees of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), has approved a 275,000ft² expansion of its West Sacramento headquarters.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Gulf SRC have signed a $227.7m loan agreement to finance the construction and operation of a 2,500MW combined-cycle power plant in Chonburi Province, Thailand.
Swedish construction and development company Skanska will invest €170m (SEK1.8bn) in the third phase of Generation Park, an office project located in Warsaw, Poland.
A joint venture between Hammerson and Ballymore has unveiled revised proposals for the regeneration of the Bishopsgate Goodsyard to create a 10-acre, mixed-use urban quarter in Shoreditch, east London.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $500m loan to Turkmenistan to strengthen the country’s transmission network, improve the reliability of power supply, and increase export of electricity to neighbouring countries.
Italian renewable energy company Enel Green Power (EGP) has broken ground on the Magdalena II, a 220MW solar park, in the municipalities of Tlaxco and Hueyotlipan, in the Mexican state of Tlaxcala.
Toshiba has decided to wind up NuGeneration (NuGen), a subsidiary formed for the construction of a nuclear power plant on the West Cumbria coast in northwest England, and withdraw from the project.
Birmingham City Council and The NEC Group have launched the NEC Masterplan and unveiled plans for the development of the NEC Campus in Solihull, a town in the West Midlands, England.