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A key section of the UK’s important A14 upgrade project is opening to traffic ahead of schedule. Work to deliver the new stretch of dual carriageway for the A14 bypass is being completed a full 12 months early. The bypass section will open to drivers in December 2019, cutting congestion and journey times. Work on the 19km bypass section commenced in October 2016 and forms part of a programme of 33.6km of road works in Cambridgeshire, costing £1.5 billion. The road building project has been carried out by

AECOM, Arcadis-WSP/PB, CH2M-Fairhurst and Highways England are among the finalists for this year’s Bentley awards for outstanding use of BIM – building information modelling. Bentley Systems, a provider of infrastructure software solutions, said that the winners will be announced at The Year in Infrastructure 2017 Conference to be held in Singapore this year, October 10-12. “The annual awards honour the extraordinary work of Bentley users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations through

Global US infrastructure firm Jacobs Engineering Group and one of its main rivals, CH2M, are to merge under a US$3.27 billion deal. In a written statement, Jacobs said it will acquire all of the outstanding shares of CH2M in a cash and stock transaction, including around $416 million of CH2M debt. CH2M had global revenue in the past 12 months of around $4.4 billion and about 20,000 employees. Its contracts are in the water, transportation, environmental and nuclear sectors.

4782 Femern, the company charged with building what will be the world’s longest submerged tunnel, has prequalified companies for consulting work.

The companies will be able to tender for two framework agreements, one for client consulting services and the other for technical in-house consulting services.

Femern is responsible for building the 18km Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link immersed tunnel between Rødbyhavn in Denmark and Puttgarden in Germany. The estimated cost has increased over the past several years to reach around €7.4 billion.

Four road infrastructure projects under the Doha Expressway programme in Qatar will be designed and supervised by CH2M HILL Halcrow under terms of a contract awarded by the Qatari government.. The projects consist of two 10km, dual five-lane carriageways for the East-West Corridor, an 11km road for the Al Wakrah Bypass, and another 11km highway Al Wakrah Main Road. CH2M HILL Halcrow is a merger of US-based engineering and construction consultancy CH2M HILL and UK peer Halcrow Group.