Edmund Nuttall Ltd has been awarded a contract valued at £4.2 million by the Highways Agency to undertake improvements to the communications infrastructure along sections of the M6 and M54 motorways in Staffordshire.
At the University of Leeds, construction has less to do with a centre of educational learning and more to do with students' social life studies – the HBG team here is extending and modernising the Student's Union building, and providing new bars and a concert hall.
HBG has gone back to college in Huddersfield where, for the second time in three years, its green hoarding has become a familiair sight on the University's town centre campus. The construction of a new three-storey teaching block for the School of Education and Professionl Development is well under way at a canalbank location.
Rijswijk, the Netherlands – Brewaba, HBG's German dredging subsidiary, has been awarded three contracts with a combined value in excess of €40 million.
Rijswijk/Inverness – Edmund Nuttall Ltd – the HBG, Hollandsche Beton Groep nv, group company active in the UK civil engineering market – is due to start work later this year on the construction of a pipeline crossing the northern end of Loch Ness, Scotland.
Rijswijk, the Netherlands – Flatiron Structures [a subsidiary of HBG Constructors, Inc.] has acquired a joint venture design and build contract for a cable-stayed bridge over Cooper River between Charleston and Mount Pleasant¸ South Carolina.
Dr Douglas Allenby, Chief Tunnelling Engineer with Edmund Nuttall Ltd, has been appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle in the Department of Civil Engineering.
Ritchies, the specialist geotechnical division of Edmund Nuttall Ltd, has recently completed a £0.10m contract for O’Rourke [Scotland] Limited on the new Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh.
Rijswijk, the Netherlands – The Enterprise Section of the Amsterdam Court of Appeal this afternoon decided – in response to a request by the Dutch shareholders’ lobby association VEB and several other HBG shareholders – to order an investigation of the policy pursued by HBG since 1 January 2000.
Amstelveen / Rijswijk, the Netherlands – On Tuesday, 26 June, after the close of trading in Amsterdam, the construction and the dredging groups Ballast Nedam and HBG signed the contract merging their two dredging companies.
Ritchies, the specialist geotechnical division of Edmund Nuttall Ltd currently undertaking the £14.2m contract to decommission the East Side Water Catchments in Gibraltar for Defence Estates, has added a new mobile drill rig to an already impressive fleet of seven units operating on the famous landmark.
Die Wayss & Freytag AG Projektentwicklung hat von den Stadtwerken Düsseldorf ein Grundstück in der Franziusstraße im Düsseldorfer Medienhafen erworben.
Wayss & Freytag Projektentwicklung konnte jetzt die letzten 6 freien Büroetagen mit insgesamt ca. 1.200 qm Nutzfläche im Eichenpark Garbsen an ein IT-Consulting-Unternehmen vermieten.
The Hague, the Netherlands – Tebodin, Consultants & Engineers, has been commissioned by the European Union to set up a Project Preparation Facility to assist the Polish government in carrying out some estimated 800 investment projects to be funded under the Social and Economic Cohesion Fund of the European Phare Programme.
On Tuesday, 26 June, after the close of trading in Amsterdam, the construction and the dredging groups Ballast Nedam and HBG signed the contract merging their two dredging companies. The merger creates a business with revenues of 635 million euros and a workforce of around 2,000. The company’s name will be Ballast HAM Dredging, and it will rank among the leading players in the international dredging market.
Rijswijk, the Netherlands – HBG, Hollandsche Beton Groep nv, is convening an informative shareholders' meeting, to be held at the HBG head office, Generaal Spoorlaan 489, Rijswijk, the Netherlands, at 10.00 a.m. on Tuesday, 26 June 2001.
Nuttall has beaten off some stiff competition within the civil engineering and construction industry to win the prestigious Quality in Construction Award in the training category.
At the end of May, the HAM 318 was launched. The vessel belongs to the largest trailing suction hopper dredgers of the world and has a hopper capacity of 23,700 m3.
