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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration - Region West has awarded Veidekke Entreprenør the NOK 331 million (€ 37.2 million) Construction Project BRU 01 Concrete Work contract for construction of the Hardanger Bridge.
Lee Morgan, who was chairman and CEO of Caterpillar from 1977 to 1985 has died after a long illness. He was 89.
Halliburton has agreed to pay fines totalling US$ 559 million in relation to bribes paid by its former subsidiary KBR.
A fleet of Bomag asphalt rollers including ten pivot steered BW174 and BW184 models have compacted 81000 tonnes of asphalt at Zurich airport in Switzerland
Hawaiian state governor Linda Lingle and state transportation officials have unveiled a US$ 4.2 billion dollar, six-year Highway Modernization Plan.
Demand for cement in China is forecast to rise by +6% annually through 2012 to 1.8 billion tonnes, according to Cement in China, the latest study by US-based research company The Freedonia Group.
Prices for materials and other inputs into the US construction industry rose at their slowest rate since 2002 last year.
Caterpillar had record sales of US$ 51.3 billion last year, a +14.5% increase on 2007. However its net profits were unchanged at US$ 3.56 billion, due to a difficult fourth quarter.
Research by iC shows that stimulus package spending could add US$ 375 billion per year to the world's construction output in this year and a similar amount again in 2010.
Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) and Halcrow have won a joint venture contract to construct the 330 MW Kishanganga hydro-electric project (HEP) in India.
Xi’an municipality sees profits in construction waste.
Growth in China’s construction output will be strong in 2009 compared to the rest of the world, but it will be down on the double-digit rises the industry is used to. Chris Sleight looks at how the government’s US$ 585 billion stimulus package should help.
Zaha Hadid Architects has won the competition to design the new headquarters for Antwerp, Belgium's Port Authority.
India's Larsen & Toubro (L&T) and Oman's Zubair Corporation have won a joint venture IND 1198 Crore (US$ 245 million) construction contract for the 2nd Asian Beach Games, which will be held in Muscat, Oman in 2010.
Transparency International's latest Bribe Payers Index (BPI) shows construction companies are among the most likely to pay bribes when dealing with the public sector.
Hitachi Construction Machinery Europe (HCME) has announced plans to introduce temporary "work time reduction" for 310 direct and indirect workers at its factories in Amsterdam and Oosterhout, the Netherlands.
Reconstruction of Gaza following the conflict with Israel could "cost billions", according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
Komatsu has cut its net profit projection for the fiscal year ending on March 31 to JPY 110 billion (US$ 1.24 billion) - a -47.2% fall on t last fiscal year.
Construction output in the 27 EU countries was down -4.2% in November, compared to a year previously according to new data from Eurostat.
Operating profits on CNH's construction equipment sales fell -71.2% in 2008 to US$ 116 million, compared to US$ 412 million in 2007. Sales were down -11.1% to US$ 4.46 billion.
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