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World’s Longest Rail and Road Tunnel Approved
- 7 November 2020
The world’s longest combined rail and road tunnel project connecting northern Germany to Denmark costing US$8-billion has been recently approved, according to The Local on 03 November. The Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link is an 18-kilometre submarine link between the two countries constructed under an investment of US$8 billion, funded by Denmark and the European Union. The project is expected to ope...
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Singapore Launches Track & Trace for Construction Workers
- 5 November 2020
In an effort to halt the spread of COVID-19 among the mostly foreign construction workforce in the country, Singapore started distributed 450,000 contact-tracing tags on 18 October to all construction, shipyard and process industry workers. The workers wear the water-resistant tag on their wrist so any worker who comes into close contact with them can be identified via Singapore’s TraceTogether...
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Construction of 500-hectare Kampong Speu Industrial Zone Begins
- 22 October 2020
The construction of OCIC’s 500-hectare industrial zone project located between National Roads 51 and 44 has begun, according to the project manager Kou Borin. Mr Kou Borin told Construction & Property Magazine on 21 October that the working team are currently filling in the land and preparing some of the project’s internal infrastructure. “Besides a factory and residential area, this ind...
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Floods Damage More Than 90 Roads Nationwide
- 16 October 2020
According to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, as of 15 October, at least 90 roads or over 200 sections nationwide have been affected by floods. In the meantime, the ministry is temporarily fixing some sections and will re-evaluate some others after the waters recede. These damaged roads are at least 300 kilometres long in total, including National Roads 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, 20A, 21, 21A, ...
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Bentley Systems Announces Finalists in the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards Program
- 29 September 2020
Bentley Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, has announced the finalists in the Year in Infrastructure 2020 Awards program. The annual awards program honours the extraordinary work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations thr...
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Australia Supports World’s Biggest Solar Farm to Power Singapore
- 23 September 2020
The Australian government has approved in principle construction of the world’s biggest solar farm in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) with the electricity to be sent via a 3,700-km-long undersea cable to provide 20% of Singapore’s annual power needs. The US$15.7 billion, the 12,000-hectare solar farm will big enough to be visible from space, according to project developer Sun Cable, with th...
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Myanmar Divides “New Yangon” To Generate Investor Competition
- 21 September 2020
Photo by UK-ASEAN Business Council The government of Myanmar has divided its “New Yangon City” commercial development project to generate competition against the giant Chinese-government backed contractor responsible. New Yangon City was planned as an 8,100-hectare industrial-commercial zone on the Yangon River costing around US$8bn. Conceived by Aecom, two bridges, a 13-sq-km industrial es...
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Contracts Awarded for Philippines Rail Project
- 19 September 2020
The government of the Philippines has awarded civil engineering projects worth a total of US$728 million to international firms for the initial construction phase of the 51km Malolos–Clark Railway which part of the Philippines’ long-term plan to boost connectivity and regional economic growth by linking Clark International Airport and the planned economic zone of New Clark City, 80km northwest of ...
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Bentley Systems’ Acceleration Fund Announces the Launch of Virtuosity, a Bentley Company
- 18 September 2020
Photo: Allan Murphy, Virtuosity CEO Bentley Systems, a leading global provider of comprehensive software and digital twins services for advancing the design, construction, and operations of infrastructure, on July 9 announced that its Acceleration Fund has invested in launching Virtuosity, a Bentley company. Virtuosity exclusively offers Virtuoso Subscriptions that bundle — with a Bentley in...
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Bentley Systems Announces Launch of The Cohesive Companies, Advancing Infrastructure Digital Twins
- 14 September 2020
Photo by: researchgate Acceleration Fund of Bentley Systems on July 13 launched The Cohesive Companies, a wholly-owned subsidiary, anchored by the acquisition of Atlanta-based Cohesive Solutions. The new business venture will include the services team from Bentley’s AssetWise business and the offerings of Bentley, Cohesive, and IBM’s Maximo to support the digital transformation of infrastruc...
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