The BAAK consortium, comprising Macquarie Capital (70% of SPC), Ballast Nedam (15%) and DEME (15%), has reached financial close on the €1bn Blankenburg Connection public-private partnership (PPP) road project in the Netherlands.
Italian construction and civil engineering company, Salini Impregilo, has won a €718.8m contract from Societé du Grand Paris (SGP) to build a section of a new metro line for Grand Paris Express, which is touted to be the biggest sustainable mobility project in Europe.
Danish engineering consultancy Ramboll has been appointed by Liverpool City Council to lead a technical team to develop a £50m, new permanent Cruise Terminal Facility on the River Mersey, UK.
A consortium comprising PORR, Gulermak and Energopol-Szczecin has signed a €150m contract for the construction of the Świnoujście tunnel in Poland.
American Airlines and Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) have broken ground on a $1.6bn modernisation project for Terminals 4 and 5 of Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) – the largest individual investment by American Airlines at an airport in its 92-year history.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) announced that Graham Contracting’s bid has been selected as the best-value proposal for the construction of the State Route 520 Montlake Project.
DP World, a port operator that was founded by a merger of Dubai Ports Authority and Dubai Ports International, has broken ground on the multi-purpose Berbera port in Somaliland.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has broken ground on new Terminal One at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, US.
Infrastructure and environment consultancy WSP Opus has been selected by City Rail Link as the design partner on the C7 workstream of the City Rail Link (CRL) project in Auckland, New Zealand.
Amey has won a £325m, 15-year contract from Highways England for the highways maintenance and to act as response contractor for Area 10 in the UK.
Dubai Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has awarded two contracts worth AED630m ($171.5m) for the last two phases (5 and 6) of the Roads leading to Expo Project.
Balfour Beatty Living Places, a subsidiary of British infrastructure group Balfour Beatty, has secured a seven-year, £103m contract from Telford and Wrekin Council for the maintenance of highways assets.
Lane Construction, the US subsidiary of Italian construction and civil engineering group Salini Impregilo, has won a $253m design-build contract for the Wekiva Parkway (Section 8) in Seminole County in the US state of Florida.
Texas Central, which is developing the high-speed train, has appointed Italian construction company Salini Impregilo – operating in the US with Lane Construction, to lead the consortium that will build the Texas passenger line.
The Buildings and Factoriesbusiness of L&T Construction, a division of Larsen & Toubro, has won an EPC order worth INR30.36bn ($411m) from Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) for the construction of Terminal-2 (T2) of the Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru, in the Indian state of Karnataka.
Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), in a joint venture with Hyundai Development Corporation (HDC), has secured a contract worth INR21.26bn ($290m) from the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) for design and construction of Package II of the Mumbai Coastal Road Project.
American multinational engineering firm AECOM has won a contract worth approximately A$70m ($50m) to provide a complete range of design services for the delivery of the A$11bn ($7.8bn) Melbourne Metro Tunnel Project.
A consortium comprising Van Oord, a Dutch contracting company involved in dredging and land reclamation, and Dredging International, a DEME Group subsidiary, has secured a €313m contract from the Maritime Office for the modernisation of the Swinoujscie-Szczecin fairway in Poland.
Bridging North America, a consortium comprising Aecon, ACS Infrastructure Canada and Fluor Canada, has reached financial close on the Gordie Howe International Bridge project.
CPB Contractors, a Cimic Group company and part of the Rail Infrastructure Alliance (RIA), has won a A$400m ($289m) design and construct contract from the Victorian government as part of a A$1bn ($722m) package of works for the A$11bn ($7.9bn) Metro Tunnel Project in Australia.