A Lithuanian town is planning a development of wooden apartment buildings, saying it could serve as an example for the rest of the country. The government, meanwhile, wants to have all new public buildings include more natural materials. The town of Anyksciai, in northeast Lithuania, has set aside two plots of land for wooden developments…
The construction price index grew by a record amount in the fourth quarter of 2021 – by 14.7% YoY, state agency Statistics Estonia reported. Over the whole year, the index rose by 8.3%, while the growth between Q3 and Q4 2021 stood at 3%. Statistics Estonia analyst Ulo Paulus said: “Compared with the average for…
A small town will be built for the Pamir Kyrgyz in Chon-Alai district, press service of the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Migration reports. According to it, the head of the ministry, Kudaibergen Bazarbaev, announced it at a meeting with the Pamir Kyrgyz residing in Taldy-Suu village in Alai district. “The President Sadyr Japarov…
President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, as part of his working trip to Jalal-Abad region, got acquainted with the progress of construction of an alternative North – South road. In particular, he examined the progress of the construction of the tunnel through Kok-Art pass. The Ministry of Transport noted that construction of 2,991 meters of the…
A China-controlled Spanish firm that has won Lithuania’s tender to build a railway bridge over the Neris River poses a threat to national security, a government panel has decided. The bridge is part of the Rail Baltica European standard-gauge railway project implemented by Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG). “The commission has decided that LTG Infra’s…
A Spanish firm owned by a Chinese state company may be declared the winner of the tender to build a railway bridge over the Neris River, which is part of the Rail Baltica European standard-gauge railway project. Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LTG), the country’s state-owned railway company, is proposing to sign the contract, valued at…
Uzbekistan’s Energy Ministry and the Uzatom Agency have reached an agreement with the Hungarian delegation on sending Uzbek specialists to the construction sites of the PAKS-2 nuclear power plant NPP. The parties came to a mutual opinion that detailed monitoring of the work at the NPP in Hungary would be very useful for Uzbek specialists.…