Komatsu Ltd. decided to establish a company to manufacture construction equipment and utility equipment, including forklift trucks, in Yaroslavl, Russia. This will be the 47th production facility (12 in Japan and 35 overseas) for Komatsu Group’s construction and mining equipment. This will also be its second plant in Russia, following Kraneks International Co., Ltd., a [...]
Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. announced that it is providing civil, structural, and environmental design services to Peel Media Ltd for phase one of the mediacity:uk development in Salford, United Kingdom.
The first phase of this internationally significant development will provide new accommodations and studio facilities for the BBC and consists of the site infrastructure, three new [...]
Spanish builder FCC named Baldomero Falcones Jaquotot as CEO and Executive Vice-Chairman of the company. Baldomero Falcones is replacing Rafael Montes, who has been appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of the Group.
FCC’s new chief executive, Baldomero Falcones, was born in Mallorca in 1946; he holds a degree in engineering and an MBA from IESE.
SNC-Lavalin ProFac Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of SNC-Lavalin, Canada’s biggest engineering firm, has been awarded a contract by The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada to provide facility management services for its investment real estate portfolio. The five-year contract begins on January 1, 2008, with options for renewals.
SNC-Lavalin ProFac was selected by Standard Life [...]
URS Corporation announced that the company’s Washington Division (formerly Washington Group International) has entered into an alliance agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to provide engineering, procurement, construction, startup, and commissioning services for combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbine projects throughout TVA’s system under the long-term agreement. The first project will begin this month at [...]
Pascal Faidy, 50, is the new sales and marketing manager DuPont Fluoroproducts – Refrigerants for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Pascal’s predecessor, Phil Bardsley, becomes sales and marketing manager EMEA for the Consumer and Industrial Finishes business at DuPont Fluoroproducts. A graduate in agronomic engineering, French-born Pascal Faidy joined DuPont’s agriculture business unit in [...]
Aecon Group Inc., a Toronto-based construction and development services company, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Innovative Steam Technologies (IST), has been awarded a contract valued at $16 million to supply its Once-Through Steam Generator (OTSG) units to Bolivian power generation company Empresa Guaracachi S.A., a subsidiary of U.K.- based Rurelec PLC.
Under the terms of the [...]
Finnish elevator and escalator giant Kone has said that the Austrian cartel court has found Kone’s Austrian subsidiary and four other companies operating in the elevator and escalator industry to have been involved in anticompetitive practices, and consequently imposed a fine of EUR 22.5 million on Kone’s Austrian subsidiary.
The Austrian cartel court notified Kone’s Austrian [...]
Dover Corporation’s De-Sta-Co announced the acquisition of Industrial Motion Control, LLC (”IMC”), which has annual revenues of approximately $50 million.
From 2008, GaLaBau, the International Trade Fair for Urban Green and Open Spaces, is the new forum for the construction, maintenance and management of golf courses in Germany. The “German Golf Course Conference” offers German golf associations and their members – golf course operators, managers, architects and greenkeepers – the opportunity for joint presentation. Some [...]
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has appointed world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid as the architect of its new “Innovation Tower”. This building will be her first permanent architectural work in Hong Kong. The new Tower will be located at the northeastern tip of the university campus. Construction work will begin in 2009 and the whole [...]
The UK-based lighting company Thorn, a brand of the Zumtobel Group of Austria, is to illuminate heritage sites in the City of Jericho on the Palestinian West Bank. The project is one outcome of an initiative launched by The Lighting Urban Community International Association (LUCI), an international network of over 70 municipalities, universities, lighting designers [...]