By Andrej Frizler, Technical Director at TA Europe The opinion is my own, founded on three years experience in this project. The sources are public announcements and press. 350 kilometres between two glamourous metropoles, the first of its kind in SEA. One of the very few worldwide. The competition for delivery of this prestigious project, … Read more
Infrastructure
Successful model: Over 10 years PPP schools Cologne
TA Europe continues to monitor the PPP schools Cologne for the financing bank consortium. The city of Cologne has awarded the renovation and ongoing maintenance of Cologne schools in 2005 on the basis of a public-private partnership agreement (PPP model) to HOCHTIEF PPP Beteiligungs GmbH & Co. KG in Essen. The project has a total … Read more
Outlook for European infrastructure investment 2017
On 17th January 2017, Technical Advisors Europe participated in the event “Outlook for European Infrastructure Investment 2017” hosted by the Infra Finance Breakfast Club at KfW IPEX-Bank’s office in Frankfurt, Germany. The panel discussion was led by Christian Bevc, Managing Director Transport and Social Infrastructure (PPP) at KfW IPEX-Bank. The panel members included Thilo Rose, … Read more
America’s infrastructure soon to be great again?
Who is going to pay for it THIS time? Despite the vehement discrepancies during and after the American presidential elections, the nation seems to agree unanimously on the fact that America’s ageing infrastructure requires significant upgrade. At the moment, traffic jams cost the U.S. economy more than $50 billion annually and without improving the current … Read more
Lenders Technical Advice A7 – first section complete
Minister Torsten Albig inaugurated the 6.5km long six-lane section of the A-7 between Neumünster north and the Bordesholmer triangle in Schleswig-Holstein. By the end of 2018, the entire 65 km long route, which is divided into a total of eight sub-sections, is to be expanded from the Hamburg-Nordwest motorway triangle to the Bordesholmer triangle on … Read more
Demanding projects coming up for technical advisors in Norway
Technical advisors in Norway will face a demanding challenge in the upcoming motorway projects in Norway. The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (“Statens vegvesen”) will procure three projects as availability-based public-private partnerships with investment volumes between €500m to €1bn. Given the modest pipeline in European infrastructure projects at the moment, fierce competition among sponsors, investors, lenders and … Read more
