Qatar to award US$ 11Bn contracts for five projects

Emirates Business 24-7, 10 March 2010

Qatar's Public Works Authority (Ashghal) will award five contracts worth QR40 billion (Dh40.34bn) in the next three months, a senior official told Emirates Business.

"We are going to award five projects in three to four months worth QR40bn approximately. This is part of the budgeted $20bn (Dh73.46bn)," said Jamal Al Kaabi, Acting Manager, Ashghal Design Department.

Pilbara region alliance to go for feasibility study

Submitted by Rajvir Khanna on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 22:28.

An alliance representing the mining companies of the Pilbara region have decided to go ahead with the feasibility study of the proposed port expansion. The news was first reported by a Western Australian news agency.

The name of the alliance is North West Iron Ore Alliance (NWIOA).

The group of the Western Australia-based companies decided to do so after the capital cost of expansion of the port was estimated to be A$2.1 billion.

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No bids made on Sabina project

GARY HUFFENBERGER
Wilmington News - Wilmington Ohio

It’s not exactly a case of having to go back to the drawing board, but the first phase of Sabina’s sewer rehabilitation project will be reconfigured and then re-advertised due to no bids being submitted prior to last Friday’s deadline.

“It’s very unusual [to receive no bids],” said Jeff Kerr, project manager at URS Corp., an engineering firm working with the Village of Sabina on the project. In this instance, Kerr said only two general contractors had indicated interest, with one of them dropping out whereas the other one was too high on the price tag so they didn’t make a bid, either.

Taipei Accepting Bids For Electronics Shopping District Project

TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taipei's city government is accepting bids to develop and operate a NT$2.7 billion electronics shopping district modeled after Tokyo's Akihabara that it hopes will be completed in 2013, a government official said Tuesday.

"We want to develop the area into a modern electronics shopping district and help boost sales of Taiwan's consumer electronics," the official, who declined to be named, told Dow Jones Newswires.

W.Va. highway projects get $180 million infusion

CHARLESTON, W.VA.

More than $180 million in federal stimulus money is fueling 105 highway projects in West Virginia.

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association in Washington, D.C., says those projects created 5,015 jobs that would not otherwise exist.

Last year, the federal government set aside $48 billion for transportation improvements over two years, including $27.5 billion for highway, bridge and related construction projects nationwide.

City Council to be asked to appropriate $1 million for feasibility study

By Pamela Metaxas, The Republican
March 09, 2010, 8:30PM

CHICOPEE – A proposal to appropriate $1 million for a feasibility study to renovate the former Chicopee High School has been approved by the Human Resources Committee and is headed for a final vote before the City Council Tuesday.

Initial plans are to renovate the former high school into a middle school, replacing Fairview Veterans Memorial Middle School which would become an elementary school. The changes would promp some redistricting and save an estimated $250,000 in busing costs.

Saudi to launch $4.5 billion in airport tenders

by Sarah Blackman on Mar 9, 2010
The Saudi government plans to spend US $14.6 billion on airport projects over the next 20 years.

Saudi Arabia is set to float tenders worth US $4.5 billion (SR17 billion) in two months’ time to build a new airport in Madinah and a commercial centre near Jeddah airport.

The KSA government will soon announce airport projects costing around $14.6 billion, with work set to take place over the next 20 years.

GAM Tenders the 2nd Package of King Abdullah II Parks Project in Al Mgabalein

Posted: 25-02-2010 , 13:04 GMT

Greater Amman Municipality (GAM) recently completed the 1st package of King Abdullah II Parks project that included installing fences, gates, water harvesting and gray water tanks, and other repairing works in the location.

Executive Director of Engineering in GAM, Ibrahim Hashem, clarified that the whole idea of the project located between Al Mgabalein region, on the western side of Jordan TV and Radio, on a piece of land with space area of 505 dunums, came up from the incessant need for setting up a park in the east of Amman.

Alberta Electric System Operator announces findings of underground technical feasibility study

CALGARY, Feb. 24 /CNW/ - The Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) announced the results of a study on the technical feasibility of 500 kV underground transmission at a presentation in Edmonton earlier today.

"The study indicates the application of a 500 kV underground cable system is technically feasible with the condition that further testing be conducted to validate the feasibility of the cable and its accessories in Alberta's cold weather conditions," announced Neil Brausen, AESO Senior Planning Advisor.