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World Bank pledges $1bn for Africa’s Great Lakes region
24/05/2013: New hydropower schemes will be built in Africa’s Great Lakes region as part of a US$1bn (£664m) package of new funding announced this week by the World Bank Group. more »
Eight teams cleared to bid for Chile’s Chacao Bridge
24/05/2013: Chile’s public works minister Loreto Silva has outlined the schedule for building the Chacao Bridge following presidential authorisation for bidding to start. more »
First win for Broadway Malyan's expanded Warsaw office
24/05/2013: Broadway Malyan’s team in Warsaw has secured its first major win following the expansion of the practice’s operations in Poland. more »
Orders up 25% at L&T
24/05/2013: Indian contractor Larsen & Toubro has reported a 25% surge in orders and a 14.4% revenue increase for the year to 31 March. more »
Aecom to manage US$2.7bn LA college scheme
23/05/2013: Aecom has won a US$94.6m programme management contract for the final US$2.7bn phase of the US Los Angeles Community College District’s (LACCD) building project. more »
PwC advises on how to run mega projects
23/05/2013: PwC’s industrial products practice has published a report on how engineering and construction (E&C) firms can achieve their cost, schedule and performance quality goals when carrying out mega capital projects. more »
Spain to bid on $17.5bn Brazilian railway
23/05/2013: Spain's development minister has said that her country is organising a consortium of public and private companies to bid on the contract to create a high-speed passenger rail service linking Brazil's two largest cities. more »
Mace scoops £1bn Russian deal
22/05/2013: Mace has won the £1bn-plus contract for a landmark residential project in St Petersburg, Russia. more »
Drake & Scull wins contract to complete Lamar Towers
22/05/2013: Lamar Investment & Real Estate Development has awarded Drake & Scull Construction (DSC) a SAR1.725bn (£302m) contract to complete the stalled Lamar Towers project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. more »
Contract let for $1.2bn Washington airport line
21/05/2013: Clark Construction Group and Kiewit Infrastructure South have won the design-build contract for a metro line to Washington Dulles International Airport in the USA. more »
Impregilo scoops €1.7bn Qatar metro scheme
21/05/2013: A group led by Italy’s Impregilo has won the contract to build a 13km underground metro line in Doha. more »
Turner & Townsend opens new Russian office
21/05/2013: Turner & Townsend has opened a new office in St Petersburg as part of its continued expansion in Russia and the CIS. more »
Obayashi JV wins 14-building Doha complex
21/05/2013: Msheireb Properties has awarded a QR2.5bn (£438m) building contract to a consortium of Obayashi Corporation and HBK Contracting. more »
European construction drops 7.2%
20/05/2013: Europe’s construction output in March was 7.2% lower than the same month last year. more »
Middle East tops global construction dispute league
20/05/2013: The Middle East has continued to experience the highest value construction disputes at an average of £41.8m, whilst disputes in the US had the lowest value at £5.8m. more »
Australian port set to generate 4000 construction jobs
17/05/2013: Federal environment minister Tony Burke has approved a major port project in Western Australia. more »
Zaha Hadid wins Saudi station design
17/05/2013: The ArRiyadh Development Authority has announced that Zaha Hadid Architects will build the new King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD) Metro Station in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. more »
Motts to design six stations for Indian metro
17/05/2013: Mott MacDonald is to provide the detailed design for six new metro stations on Phase II of the rapid metro rail network in Gurgaon, India. more »
Virginia pumps extra $4bn into road and rail
16/05/2013: The governor of the US state of Virginia has allocated an additional US$4bn (£2.6bn) in funding for transport improvements. more »
Turkey awards $2.4bn power plant
16/05/2013: Turkish company Hattat Holding and China-based Harbin Electric International have signed a deal to build a coal-based power plant in Amasra, Turkey. more »