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(Press release Hardt:) Delft, the Netherlands, 10 June 2020 - Amsterdam Airport Schiphol will expand its involvement in hyperloop by continuing the partnership with Dutch hyperloop company Hardt Hyperloop, that was first announced in 2018. Since then, the parties have conducted a joint study, that shows hyperloop can play a major role in Schiphol becoming the envisioned sustainable multi-modal hub. The study predicts that hyperloop can substitute up to 12.5 million of the passengers that will travel through Schiphol by 2050.

(Press release TNO:) Delft, the Netherlands, 6 June 2020 - After years of research, experimentation and testing, a new generation of solar panels comes onto the market that can be unwitnessed incorporated into large surfaces. This week, the solar-powered facade panels were installed in the facade of BAM's head office in Bunnik. They can be fabricated in any size and colour pattern, and will help to make the built environment energy-neutral in an attractive way.

Antwerp, Belgium, 3 June 2020 - LANTIS, the project developer responsible for the prestigious ‘Oosterweel link’, which will complete the Antwerp Ring Road, has awarded the contract for the construction of the Scheldt tunnel to the Tijdelijke Handelsvennootschap Combinatie Oosterweeltunnel (THV COTU) consortium today, 3 June 2020.

Rohbau für Gebäude A5 steht | Modernste Infrastruktur für generationenübergreifende Krankenversorgung wird vervollständigt

(Pressemitteilung Universitätsklinikum Jena:) Jena (ukj / ane), 28. Mai 2020 - Vor dreieinhalb Jahren, im November 2016, ist am Universitätsklinikum Jena in Lobeda der zweite Bauabschnitt feierlich eröffnet worden. Heute sind für den noch ausstehenden Gebäudekomplex A5 des größten Krankenhauses im Freistaat Thüringens die Rohbauarbeiten offiziell abgeschlossen worden. Insgesamt werden 49 Millionen Euro investiert, der Freistaat Thüringen stellt dabei eine Fördersumme von 36 Millionen Euro zur Verfügung.

• The completion marks the latest milestone for the £140m UK Antarctic Infrastructure Modernisation Programme commissioned by UKRI-NERC and undertaken by the British Antarctic Survey.
• The new wharf and mooring dolphin provide the extra capability required to berth the new UK polar research vessel, the RRS Sir David Attenborough. The MV Pharos SG, fishery patrol and logistics support vessel, will also use the new wharf.
• Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia celebrates Shackleton Day on 20 May in South Georgia with a public holiday. Ernest Shackleton arrived on this day in 1916 at the whaling station in South Georgia after travelling from Elephant Island in Antarctica to South Georgia in an open boat.

(London, 20 May 2020 - Surrounded by spectacular scenery, dominated by mountains and glaciers, construction has completed on a new £11 million wharf, dolphin and slipway to serve the King Edward Point Research Station (KEP).

(Press release Network Rail:) 14 May 2020 - Figures released today confirm that an additional £3m has been spent locally in south Devon between June 2019 and May 2020 by Network Rail and its contractors as a result of the government funded project to build a new sea wall at Dawlish.

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 13 May 2020 – Femern A/S has issued the Commencement Notice to the Femern Link Contractors joint venture so they proceed with the execution of their contracts for the design and build of the world’s longest immersed road and rail tunnel, the Fehmarnbelt link between Denmark and Germany.

München, 7. Mai 2020 – Rund elf Streckenkilometer, davon sieben Kilometer Tunnel und drei unterirdische Haltestellen – die 2. Stammstrecke München ist ein Infrastruktur-Großprojekt und für die gesamte Metropolregion von enormer Bedeutung. Die Deutsche Bahn hatte die ersten beiden Aufträge für die Hauptbaumaßnahmen  (VE 10 + VE 30) an die Firmen Wayss & Freytag Ingenieurbau AG, Max Bögl Stiftung & Co. KG , Ed. Züblin AG, und BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH, vergeben. Die Leistungen umfassen den Bereich „Oberirdisch West“ – von der Station Laim bis zur Donnersberger Brücke – und den Hauptbahnhof inklusive der Tunnelstrecke von der Donnersberger Brücke bis zum Marienhof.

Hemel Hempstead, 6 May 2020 - Manchester’s newest school, Chorlton High School South, has appointed the region’s best known builders to create its new teaching facilities.