Bakheng water treatment plant
_ Water infrastructure: in the United Kingdom, the Thames Tideway (East works package), a vast programme to extend the system that transfers and stores London’s wastewater and stormwater in an effort to prevent polluting the Thames; in Morocco, the Abdelmoumen 350 MW pumped-storage hydroelectric plant; in Senegal, the Sambangalou dam on the Gambia river, which will generate energy, improve irrigation and supply drinking water to neighbouring regions; in Cambodia, the Bakheng water treatment plant, which will eventually supply drinking water to close to 2 million people in the north-east of the capital, Phnom Penh; in Canada, the new contract for the construction of a series of structures designed to protect people living in the wider Calgary region by diverting and temporarily storing water from the Elbow river during peak volume events.
High Speed 2 rail line London–Birmingham
_ Complex transport programmes under way: in the United Kingdom, the consortium encompassing VINCI Construction and Balfour Beatty is working on the main civil engineering works packages of the High Speed 2 line and on construction of Old Oak Common station in London.
In Denmark, the Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link, which will be the world’s longest immersed tunnel (18km long, 89 prefabricated concrete sections, each 200 metres long) and connect the Danish and German coasts by road and rail.