Sunday, May 5, 2024
Russia is unlikely to construct a new aircraft carrier in the next ten years, the scientific director of the Krylov State Scientific Research Center Valery Polovinkin has said, adding that this class of ship is unlikely to appear before 2030-2035. “The manufacturing capability of Russian plants make it possible...
Austria’s formwork company Doka GmbH, a branch of the Umdasch Group AG, will initiate construction of its first formwork plant in Russia’s Lipetsk Special Economic Zone, RIA news agency reported. According to the press secretary of the Lipetsk Economic Zone, Elena Syomina, full works on the plant should start by...
Construction of Egypt’s first nuclear power plant will begin in the next two to two-and-a-half years, the country’s officials said Sunday, according to Reuters. The 4,800 megawatt (MW) capacity plant at Daba’a in the north of the country, to be built by Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, aims to be...
Work resumed Tuesday to lay the second string of the TurkStream gas pipeline in the Black Sea, with a total of 706 km remaining to lay, the Gazprom-owned operating company said, according to Rossiyskaya Gazeta. The first string -- which will transport Russian gas to the Turkish market from the...
Under pressure from Washington, Copenhagen is deliberately delaying the issuance of a construction permit for the Nord Stream 2 project, two sources in Russian diplomatic circles told the Izvestya newspaper. Denmark made special amendments to the legislation, which empower it to reject applications for the construction of pipelines in Danish territorial...
Eight of the 12 stadiums hosting the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia have been constructed using Tekla Structures software, American construction software heavyweight Trimble said, according to Russia Construction. According to a statement from the Sunnyvale, California-based company, Tekla Structures is an advanced Building Information Modeling (BIM) tool, which...
Ukraine announced the creation of a group within the European Union aimed to block the construction of Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, RIA news agency reports. The country’s President Pyotr Poroshenko wrote on Monday on his social media pages that Ukraine is currently creating a group within the European Union to...
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency issued a permit to Moscow’s Domodedovo airport to open the first phase of a new segment of the passenger terminal (T2), RIA Novosti reported. According to the airport administration, issuance of a permit for commissioning is a confirmation that the new terminal is ready for...
For more than 25 years, Omsk, one of Russia’s largest cities, located deep in Siberia, has had an ongoing project to build a subway to serve its more than 1 million residents. After spending billions of rubles over that period, engineers have almost nothing to show for their efforts: one...
A masterplan competition for the coastal city of Novorossiysk was awarded to Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), the studio announced, according to Arch Daily. ZHA teamed up with Russian practice Pride TPO to compete for the Admiral Serebryakov Embankment competition and was selected out of 40 teams from 13 countries. Miralles...