The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has agreed to provide a $152.2m loan to the Riverside County Transportation Commission (RCTC) for the completion of Interstate 15 Express Lanes Corridor Project.
New York governor Andrew M. Cuomo has unveiled $5.6bn project to transform the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) to strengthen the city’s transportation infrastructure.
Commercial property developer Eshton has announced plans for a £45m project to add nearly 600,000 sq ft extension to its Burnley Bridge scheme in Lancashire, UK.
Downer York Joint Venture, a joint venture of Downer EDI Works and South Australian company York Civil, has bagged the City Tram Extension Project in Adelaide, Australia.
Italian construction firm Salini Impregilo has announced the start of $450m tunnel work in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jacobs Engineering Group has won a contract to provide services as a lead trackwork design consultant for the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) Sungai Buloh-Serdang-Putrajaya (SSP) Line in Malaysia.
Cross Yarra Partnership (CYP), a consortium led by Lendlease Engineering, John Holland, Bouygues Construction and Capella Capital, has been chosen to construct the Metro Tunnel and five new underground stations.
The UK government has awarded contracts worth £6.6bn to construct the new high-speed railway between London and Birmingham.
Planning applications have been submitted for two major infrastructure projects, including Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside project as well as Glasgow Airport Investment Area project.
Transport for Greater Manchester has signed an agreement with MPT, a consortium of Laing O’Rourke, VolkerRail and Thales, to deliver the £350m next phase of the Metrolink expansion.
GMR Goa International Airports Limited (GGIAL), a subsidiary of GMR Airports Limited, has secured INR13.3bn ($206m) in financing from India-based Axis Bank for the development of Mopa airport inGoa, India.
The Flemish-Netherlands Scheldt Committee has selected Sassevaart consortium as the preferred bidder for the construction of €753m lock in Terneuzen in the Netherlands.
Highways England has unveiled its preferred route for its planned £50m scheme to improve the roundabout at Junction 19 of the M6 near Knutsford in Cheshire, UK.
The government of Alberta is set to provide CAD1.53bn ($1.17bn) in funding for the construction of the first stage of Green Line LRT in Calgary.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Indian government have inked a $220m loan agreement for improving connectivity as well as transport efficiency and safety on state highways of Rajasthan.
A joint venture of Vinci Construction and Spie Batignolles has won a civil engineering contract worth €156m for the construction of Noisy-Champs railway station in France.
Skyway, an equal stake joint venture (JV) of BMD Constructions and CIMIC Group’s CPB Contractors, has clinched an AUD400m ($306.4m) Airfield Works contract for Brisbane Airport in Australia.
Indian infrastructure company Hindustan Construction Company(HCC) has bagged INR7.97bn ($123m) contract from the Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation.
US-based construction and engineering firm Bechtel has secured a five-year contract to manage London City Airport’s development plan.
A joint venture of Italian construction firm Astaldi and CLF has won a contract worth €82m to upgrade a section of the E-59 Warsaw-Poznań railway line (Lot IV) in Poland.