Provisional costs of construction of the new “A” wing of Pauls Stradins Criminal University Hospital have grown by one-third or by EUR 30.684 million, as reported by the hospital’s board member Janis Komisars during a meeting of Saeima’s Public Expenditure and Audit Committee. According to him, initial costs of the project were estimated around EUR…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman says 6,500 km of roads have been repaired and/or built across the country over the past three years. “I have repeatedly said that we will make good roads in Ukraine. Over the past three years, about 6,500 km of roads have been repaired and built. Noteworthy, 900 km in 2016,…
The launch of a Hyperloop high-speed train project in Ukraine can take place in the next five to ten years, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said. “We are following the progress under Hyperloop technology. For Ukraine this is a prospect for the next five or maximum ten years,” Omelyan said. In June the Ukrainian…
DTEK Renewables and GE Renewable Energy entered into an agreement on the construction of the second phase of the Prymorska Wind Electricity Plant (WEP) with a capacity of 100 MW. The plant will be equipped with 26 wind turbines of the GE 3.8 MW class, which will be delivered to Ukraine and installed at the…
Construction of the new museum started on October 6, and if everything goes according to plan, the museum will open to the public in July next year. The museum’s cornerstone was laid on October 5. “We’re hoping very much to give the city another tourist magnet,” says Kaire Tooming, who is in charge of the…
A new 4-star hotel will be opened in Sighnaghi, in Georgia’s wine region of Kakheti, featuring 130 rooms, spa and fitness center, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, restaurant and all other necessary facilities. The hotel will be able to begin hosting guests in 2020. The cost of the project is $21 million and it is…
Ukraine has unveiled a solar plant in Chornobyl, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster three decades ago. Built in a contaminated area, which remains largely uninhabitable and where visitors are accompanied by guides carrying radiation meters, 3,800 panels produce energy to power…