Construction of an anti-avalanche gallery of about 5.8 hectares will begin in 2019 on Bishkek-Osh highway, the Ministry of Transport and Roads of Kyrgyzstan reported. According to the ministry, the gallery will appear in Chychkan gorge at the 246th kilometer of Bishkek-Osh road. The width of the road inside the gallery will be 9.5 meters,…
President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Forish district of Jizzakh region and the site where the first nuclear power plant of Central Asia would be built in 8-9 years. The head of state spoke with the leaders of the UzAtom Agency and the Rosatom Corporation. He noted that the project was a new strategic area…
The preparations for the construction of a 200-meter high building, the highest in Uzbekistan, as part of the International Business Center Tashkent City project, has started. Currently, the construction is in its second phase. The calculations and analytics are done with use of IT technologies. Recently, the geological research of the soil has been completed…
A cement plant in Turkmenistan’s Balkanabat has mastered the production of sulfate-resistant cement from local raw materials. The first batch of about 7,000 tons of high-quality building material was manufactured. A method for producing sulfate-resistant (Portland) cement using iron oxide, a local raw material, has been developed in the country. This type of cement is…
Compared to December 2017, the level of construction costs in Latvia increased by 5.6% in December 2018. Labor remuneration of workers grew by 8.7%, and prices of building materials – by 5.8%, but maintenance and operational costs of machinery and equipment – by 3.1%. Compared to November 2018, level of construction costs in Latvia in…
The Union of Harju County Municipalities has submitted an appeal to the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications requesting the latter to instruct the parties responsible for the establishment of Rail Baltica to take into consideration the need for a bypass railway in the overlapping corridors of Rail Baltic and the Tallinn ring railway. In…
About $55 million will be spent on construction of Tyup-Kegen road in Kyrgyzstan, Renata Esembaeva, Acting Director of the World Bank Investment Projects Implementation Group, reported at a session of Onuguu-Progress faction. According to her, 50% of the amount is a grant, and the second half is a loan. “There is a project for the…