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Birmingham PFI roads row goes to judicial review

Construction Law

Birmingham City Council is proceeding with a judicial review process to challenge a Department for Transport refusal to approve a £2.7 billion highways contract. A hearing is expected later this month. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Federal Infrastructure Bill Paves the Way Toward More Transportation Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships

Constructlaw

Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation (TIFIA) loans are a crucial source of financing for certain surface transportation projects, such as highways and bridges, because they offer low interest, long-term financing. surface transportation P3s that have reached financial close. transportation infrastructure.

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BIM – Attempting to Run before you can Walk? – BIM EU-wide Procurement Initiative

Building Information Management

more efficient procurement and management of the existing numerous renovation, repair, sustainability, and minor new construction projects required to meet sustainability and economic imperatives. BIM Technology and Process Road Map. Adjusting priorities would provide more significant value such as: 1. RSMeans Strategic Partner.

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Is PFI about to be reborn?

Construction Law

Just when you might have been excused for imagining that the discredited Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was dead as a construction procurement route, up it pops again. In London, Transport for London (TfL) has said it may increasingly turn to private finance to pay for future infrastructure schemes.

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Characteristics of Strategic Collaboration and Efficient Construction Project Delivery

Job Order Contracting

Integrated planning, procurement, and project delivery processes and team. The benefits of strategic collaboration vs. traditional construction planning, procurement, and project delivery are well documented and partially listed below (Chan et al., procuring partners in construction projects. cooperative procurement procedures.

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Job Order Contracting - Untitled Article

Job Order Contracting

Reports, such as ASCE’s Failure to Act: Closing the Infrastructure Investment Gap for America’s Economic Future, give the Federal Sector a D+ average grade for managing structures associated with surface transportation, water and wastewater, electricity, airports, inland waterways and marine ports infrastructure.

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RESIDENTIAL BUILDING SITE PLANNING

The Constructor

There should be good transport facilities such as railway, bus service, for going to office, college, market, etc. Residential house site should be located away from the busy commercial roads. The site should be in fully developed area or in the area which has potential of development.