McDermott International, Inc. (NYSE:MDR) (“McDermott” or the “Company”), announced today that a subsidiary of J. Ray McDermott, S.A. has entered into a joint venture with a subsidiary of state-owned China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (“CSIC”).
The joint venture company, Qingdao McDermott Wuchuan Offshore Engineering Company Ltd. (“McDermott Wuchuan”), plans to establish a new facility on over 111 [...]

Axis Technologies Group, Inc. announced today that Kirchhoff Construction will join the company as an efficiency advocate in energy saving partnering. Kirchhoff, a leader in innovation, recently installed in their own facility the energy efficient lighting fixtures by Crescent/Stonco, a division of the Genlyte Group, Inc. that is equipped with the Axis Dimming/Daylight Harvesting [...]

Aker Kvaerner’s multi-million dollar integrated subsea oil and gas centre in Malaysia was officially opened, marking the successful conclusion of an ultra fast-track schedule to bring the facility on stream. Located in Port Klang Free Zone, Pulau Indah, Klang, the purpose-built manufacturing centre, with a total investment value of USD 100 million, is the first [...]

The Faculty of Engineering at NUI, Galway is to offer a new full-time, four-year degree programme in Project and Construction Management starting in September 2007.
The honours BSc degree is being offered in response to the shortage of suitably qualified professionals across all sectors of the built environment following the enormous investment in physical [...]

Hill International (Nasdaq:HINT), the worldwide construction consulting firm, announced today that it has received a contract from Tanmiyat Real Estate Co. to provide project management services during the construction of Bin Samikh Tower in Doha, Qatar. The 2-year contract has an estimated value to Hill of approximately QR9.0 million ($2.5 million).
The 73-story skyscraper will feature [...]

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. received a contract from Arabian Amines Corporation (a joint venture between Huntsman MA Services Corporation and Zamil Group Holding Company) to provide the completion of front-end engineering and design and project management contractor services for a world-scale, $150 million ethyleneamines facility at Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia.

OCEAN CITY — Organization is probably the skill Edward Panuska most relies on these days.
Panuska is vice president of project management for George Harms Construction Co., which is in charge of the first phase of construction on the new Route 52 causeway.
If anything keeps him awake at night, it’s scheduling, he said.
“Anything that has to [...]

Poyry’s Infrastructure & Environment business group has been awarded two important projects related to urban environmental engineering. The total value of the contracts is EUR 2.5 million. The municipality of the City of Brno, the Czech Republic, has assigned Poyry for planning the general arrangement of the dewatering system. Poyry’s assignment comprises hydraulic calculations of [...]

Technip has been awarded a contract worth approximately $150 million by Petrobras for the development of the Roncador field, located off the Brazilian coast. The Roncador P-54 project consists of eleven production and six water injection subsea wells, located at water depths down to 1,740 meters and connected in direct tie-back to the P-54 FPSO [...]

Granite Construction Incorporated announced an organizational realignment of its business operations. The realignment is designed to accommodate growth of the Company’s vertically integrated Branch business in the west and improve profitability on its large, complex Heavy Construction Division (”HCD”) projects. Implementation of the strategic and organizational realignment is currently underway and is expected to take [...]

Tiscareno Associates today announced the hiring of architect Jim Cade to lead the rapidly growing architecture and urban design firm.
A practicing architect for 29 years, Jim Cade has served as project manager of many well-known Seattle projects, including Benaroya Hall, Swedish Medical Center’s 1101 Office Tower, Norm Dicks Government Center, and the Seattle Ferry Terminal [...]

Interior Motives, a full-service interior design studio and showroom that specializes in pre-construction and pre-renovation design, announced today the launch of a powerful solution to meet the burgeoning demand for effective project management between designers, architects, builders and contractors.
Using leading web-based business intelligence platform and online collaboration tools, Interior Motives will now have the ability [...]