Rod Sweet

London

Editor at Global Construction Review

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Articles

British Antarctic Survey starts using new Discovery Building

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

The two-storey, 4,500-sq-m building replaces several that had come to the end of their lives and will bring scientific and operations functions together under one roof. Rothera is the UK’s largest Antarctic research hub. Scientists there study climate, biodiversity, and ocean science. The international team delivering the logistically demanding project included BAM, Ramboll, Sweco, G&A Barnie Group, Turner & Townsend and Hugh Broughton Architects.
Builder fined millions after bosses’ WhatsApp chats expose bid-rigging

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

The main evidence in the case came from a trail of WhatsApp messages – complete with delight and laughter emojis – exchanged between the two companies’ bosses as they planned the fraud. Investigators from the Competition and Consumer Commission of Singapore (CCCS) found the messages when they raided the offices of local firm Trust-Build Engineering & Construction (TB) and Chinese firm Hunan Fengtian Construction Group (HFC) in 2023.
India mulls major ring road around Goa

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

He said the village of Patradevi near the Goan state border in the north would be one of the bypass’s termini, and that the new highway would cost between $1.4bn and $1.7bn to build. The highway would skirt the eastern boundary of Goa to avoid going through the middle “to decongest the national highway”, Gadkari said, The Times of India reported.
India’s ACE notches up best year ever

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

On a full-year revenues of approximately $400.5m (34.2 billion rupees), its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBIDTA) grew 26.2% to approximately $71m (6.06 billion rupees), while profit after tax grew 24.7% to $47.9m (4.09 billion rupees). Executive director Mr Sorab Agarwal said the country’s GDP is projected to grow at a steady pace of around 6.5% amid easing inflation and New Delhi’s enthusiasm for infrastructure development.
Skanska lands major Arctic road job

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

The old road is considered dangerous, slow and unreliable in winter. The terrain is mountainous and coastal, requiring fjord crossings. Skanska will build 21.5km of new road between Megården and Sommerset in Sørfold Municipality, which sits some 120km inside the Arctic Circle. A majority of the section will run through three tunnels, together comprising 13.8km. Open surface road accounts for 6.9km, and three bridges comprise 800m.
Trump administration makes U-turn on New York’s $5bn Empire Wind scheme

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

It came after extensive lobbying by New York State’s Democratic governor Kathy Hochul and Norwegian finance minister and former Nato Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg. The offshore wind sector was shocked when, on 16 April, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOEM) ordered the unprecedented halt.
Glamox lights up gigantic converter platform for North Sea wind

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

It’s for European grid operator TenneT’s DolWin5 wind-power project set to power more than a million households. Turbines at sea will send their three-phase alternating current (AC) electricity to the platform, named DolWin epsilon, which will convert it to a high-voltage direct current (HVDC). From there, HVDC electricity will travel 100km by undersea cable to Hamswehrum in East Frisia.
Korea National Railway to advise Poland on high-speed rail

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

CPK will reformat transportation in Poland with a new international airport, highway upgrades, and 2,000km of high-speed rail. It aims to make all major Polish cities no more than 2.5 hours’ travel time away from the new airport, to be sited some 50km west of Warsaw. KNR has built and now manages 657km of high-speed rail lines in South Korea. The agreement signed on Monday by CPK chief executive Dr Filip Czernicki and KNR president Seong-Hai Lee commits them to exchanging knowledge and expertise.
Bechtel picked for main phases of 1.3GW ‘Mammouth’ solar farm

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

Bechtel will design and build the “South”, “Central I”, and “Central II” phases, which together will provide 900MW of generating capacity, enough to supply 200,000 homes. Over the next two years Bechtel will install around 2 million solar panels, half of them made in the US. It will also install power cables and substations. It called the scheme “one of the nation’s largest solar projects”. At peak, the project will employ some 1,200 people, 15% of whom would be apprentices.
Joy as Norway opens bidding for 1.5GW of floating wind

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

The developments are expected to have a combined generating capacity of 1.5GW. Once the three areas have been allocated – each with a target capacity of 500MW – the three developers will have a chance to bid for state aid, with one winner eligible for around $3.4bn (NOK 35 billion). State-aid bidding will take place after what the Norwegian government called a “maturation period” lasting about two years. Interested parties have until 15 September to bid for one of the three areas.