The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan of $415 million to finance the improvement of a stretch of high-altitude mountain road in Georgia, in line with its commitment to favour economic, sustainable growth, which is resilient and inclusive, in the Asia-Pacific region. The project, ...

The second edition of EXPOBIM, the largest international BIM fair in Latin America, took place on August 7 and 8, 2019. The main focus has been Mining and Construction in the fields of innovation, virtual construction, suppliers and training. The event was held at the Autonomous University of ...

Commemorating the centennial of the Metro of Madrid, last May, the conference entitled "100 years of the Madrid Metro and its international translation" was held at the School of Mining Engineering of Madrid. These hand-on talks highlighted the great work of Spanish companies in the design and ...

Rail Baltica is the greenfield rail transport infrastructure project that will integrate the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia), Poland, and indirectly Finland into the European rail network. For this challenge, IDOM has been awarded five out of the seven contracts to design the main ...

On July 10, 2019, the Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure of Republic of Croatia, Oleg Butković, presented to the media, the new tolling system to be implemented in the country. Multi-lane free flow and ALPR (automatic license plate recognition) technologies will be used. The scope ...

From 23 to 25 May, the "Fair Water: Tackling Global Water Challenges" conference was held in Washington D.C. (US), organized by the ICEX. Several multilateral organizations (the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, USAID and the Millennium Challenge Corporation) presented their ...

The city of Vitoria-Gasteiz is preparing itself to receive high-speed rail in the best possible way: using the land that has been freed up by sinking of the railway to extend the city public space and make it greener. The decision brings with it a challenge of improving the quality of life of the ...

The Presidents of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega Saavedra; Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado; and El Salvador, Salvador Sánchez Cerén (at the date of the meeting), jointly agreed on the launch of the Master Plan for the Gulf of Fonseca for the implementation of trinational investment and ...