Weekly Quiz: What $186.5m project is being built to service Saudi Arabia’s The Line?

1) Granite has won a deal to implement seismic improvements to the Oakland International Airport Perimeter Dike with a cement deep soil mixing construction solution. What does the work aim to prevent?

• Water intrusion from the adjacent San Francisco Bay
• Cracking of the runway surface
• A shift in gradient of the runway

2) What has Saudi Arabian construction company Asas Al-Mohileb signed a deal to build, to service the construction of Neom’s The Line linear city?

• A 10,000 sq m canteen to feed construction workers
• A complex of concrete batching plants capable of producing 20,000 cubic metres of concrete a day
• A desalination plant to provide water to the residents who will eventually live there

3) The UK government has delayed a decision on whether to build which controversial project?

• The Lower Thames Crossing – a 2.6-mile tunnel under the River Thames east of London
• A £335bn bridge over the Irish Sea, originally proposed by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson
• The revival of London’s former principal airport in Croydon as a major new gateway to the capital

4) What new piece of technology has Austrian contractor Strabag successfully trialled, according to an announcement last week?

• A 3D-printed motorway bridge
• A fully autonomous asphalt paving system
• A teleportation device to transport materials rapidly to construction sites

5) Egypt-based Orascom Construction has signed a framework deal to be a primary contractor for the first phase of construction of what under Egypt’s biggest foreign investment deal?

• A new city on the country’s Mediterranean coast called Ras el-Hekma
• A nuclear power plant
• A second Suez Canal to alleviate pressure on the first

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