Peter Reina

<p>A University of Oxford analysis proposes breaking up the company, including the creation of a business to take care of large wastewater capital projects.</p>

<p>The long-planned 10,800-ft-long bridge would connect Sicily to mainland Italy.</p>

<p>Global construction volume will grow by 1.2% this year and by 3% annual average over the rest of the decade, forecasts London-based Global Construction Perspectives in a report released Jan. 23.</p>

<p>The project was budgeted to cost $57 billion at 2019 prices, but an executive says poor planning and construction cost inflation are impacting the price.</p>

<p>Construction of the 90-mile rail line began in 2022. </p>

<p>Thames Water Utilities says the project is needed to address leaks and to be better prepared for drought.</p>

<p>With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.’s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 high speed railroad is shifting into the fit-out stage with more than $6 billion of track and system work being readied for procurement. </p>

<p>CPB Contractors Pty Ltd, Ghella Pty Ltd and Acciona Construction Australia Pty Ltd. are scheduled to start tunneling in 2026.</p>

<p>One team in England recently achieved one of the world’s most sustained single tunnel-boring machine drives on a mine project, says its contractor, while another secured a design-build contract for the country’s longest road tunnel,</p>

<p>Undulating timber roofs now shelter passengers using a new railroad station at the Norwegian city of Ski. It lies close to the south portal of the multibillion-dollar underground high-speed Follo Line railroad to the capital city, Oslo.</p>

<p>Officials have increased the maximum strike price for future projects following September auction that had no lease site bidders.</p>

<p><span style=” font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;”>Cross passages between both bores of London’s 0.7-mile Silvertown tunnel are nearing completion, marking the end of excavations on the River Thames crossing.</span></p>

<p>Plans now call for completion of only half of the 340-mile HS2 network launched 13 years ago.</p>

<p>Toll road operators are preparing to fight the proposed tax, which would raise an estimated $630 million in its first year.</p>

<p>But the megaproject’s current chances of successful delivery was rated “unachievable” by the government’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority in its recent annual review.</p>

A public inquiry into the cause of the 2017 fire that killed 72 found the design, materials and manner of construction for a refurbishment contributed to the disaster.

Contractors have launched five of the 10 tunnel boring machines planned to bore 64 miles of tunnels for the $46.5-billion project.

Plastic water-filled pipes feeding heat exchangers cast into 130-ft-deep shaft retaining walls of a new train station were effective, researchers say.

Plastic water-filled pipes feeding heat exchangers cast into 130-ft-deep shaft retaining walls of Melbourne train station project were effective, researchers say.

Peter Reina is Correspondent London, U.K.