Lithuania’s natural gas transmission system operator Amber Grid launched an international tender for the construction of Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL). The deadline for submitting bids is August 8, according to the competitive tender notice on the European and Lithuanian public procurement websites. Amber Grid and its Polish partner, Gaz-System, in late May signed a grid…
Costs of construction and assembly services in Ukraine rose by 23.4% YoY in January-April. Over the period under review, costs of construction and assembly of civil engineering facilities, as well as commercial buildings and complex industrial facilities increased the most – by 28.1% and by 23.8%, respectively. The lowest increase was recorded in the construction…
Pulp mill developer Est-For Invest board members Aadu Polli and Margus Kohava want the planned EUR 1-billion mill to be built near the town of Tabivere. According to Est-For, the mill should be built in a forest near the town of Tabivere, located 21 km from Central Tartu. “Located deep in the forest, the mill…
Tbilisi City Hall is launching a project of a gradual replacement of Soviet time residential flats, the so-called “khrushchovkas” in Tbilisi. Khrushchovka flats were built in the Soviet Union, in the early 1960s during the time of the leadership of their namesake Nikita Khrushchev. There are about 700 khrushchovka buildings in Tbilisi whose lifespan expired…
Kazakhstan launched the construction of the Big Almaty Ring Road (BARR). The project envisages construction of a 66-km long bypass road around Almaty with six lanes. Intensity of traffic on the BARR is estimated at more than 38,000 cars per day. Along with the construction of the highway, the project provides for the construction of…
Amobi Capital and Helios Royal Energy will be constructing solar power farms capable of producing 500 MW of solar power in Ukraine over the next three years and an additional 1 GW in 10 years. The construction will begin on the first 35 MW solar park in the Boguslav area this year. The first 4…
According to information released by Statistics Estonia, in the first quarter of 2018 the combined production of Estonian construction enterprises in Estonia and foreign countries increased by 21% YoY, while construction on the domestic market alone increased by 29%. In the first quarter the production value of construction enterprises amounted to EUR 559 million, of…