Projects How the world’s longest span connected Asia and Europe Turkish contractor Limak gave GCR a tour of the 1915 Çanakkale Bridge, which links Asia and Europe across the Dardanelles Strait. Completed in 2022 after four years, the bridge has…
Projects Checking in with Limak on Barcelona’s new Camp Nou In its ongoing project to renovate FC Barcelona’s home stadium, Spotify Camp Nou, Turkish contractor Limak told GCR that it had now removed the old stadium’s third and top seating…
News Iraq opens bidding on $17bn road and rail link with Turkey Bidding has opened for a 1,200km motorway and rail link that will connect southern Iraq with Turkey, the World Highways website reports. Iraq approved the “Development Road”, as the project…
News UK facilitates €780m loan for Turkey’s new high-speed railway UK Export Finance (UKEF), the UK government’s export credit agency, has underwritten €781m of financing for a 286km high-speed railway across southern Turkey. Its Buyer Credit Facility will help contractor…
News Turkey in talks with China, Russia, and Korea over more nuclear plants Turkey has entered into talks with China, Russia, and South Korea on possible deals to build the country’s second and third nuclear power plants (NPPs), and with the US and…
News Hill to manage port expansion in quake-hit Turkey US-based Hill International is project managing the expansion of Assan Port in İskenderun, southern Turkey. İskenderun was among the cities devastated by the major earthquake in Turkey and Syria in…
News Renzo Piano’s Istanbul gallery refurbishment opens to public A renovation of the Istanbul Modern, Turkey’s first museum of modern and contemporary art, designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, has opened to the public. The five-level, 10,500 sq m…
Markets Turkey’s quake reconstruction could top $68bn: World Bank The earthquakes of 6 February caused around $34.2bn in physical damage in Turkey.
News Nato ships heated containers to Turkey to house homeless Nato yesterday shipped the first 600 of more than 1,000 containers to be used for temporary housing in earthquake-devastated Turkey. Nato said the containers are normally used as deployable headquarters…
News Turkey ‘rounding up contractors’ as critics slam lax regulation Authorities in Turkey have begun targeting contractors after last week’s catastrophic earthquakes destroyed some 25,000 buildings in southern Turkey and northeastern Syria, leading to the combined deaths of at least…
News Turkish, Syrian cities destroyed in violent earthquakes A series of major earthquakes and aftershocks have devastated multiple cities in the southeastern Anatolia region of Turkey and northwestern Syria starting in the early hours of 6 February, with…
News South Korea offers to build four reactors for Turkey The Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco) said yesterday that it had contacted the government of Turkey to propose the construction of four reactors with a total power output of 5.6GW,…