News
Seasons Greetings 2022
As we close out our 15th year, wishing all of our clients, colleagues and friends, wherever you are in the world, a safe and Merry Christmas.
Hong Kong Infrastructure Pipeline
Hong Kong is entering a 'golden age' of infrastructure development with the government's annual infrastructure spending expected to reach HK$200bn per year. What's planned? Check out our latest...
The Northern Metropolis
The Northern Metropolis is the buzzword in Hong Kong at the moment and a topic we have covered over the last two years - see our last article from February this year looking at rail projects for the development. Hong...
More details of the six Hong Kong infrastructure projects
More details of the six Hong Kong infrastructure projects announced by John Lee in his policy address have emerged. These are all significant and technically challenging projects and add to the huge raft of other...
Hong Kong Third Runway Commissioned
Congratulations to AAHK on official commissioning of the new third runway at Hong Kong Airport today, just one element of the massive 3RS programme. Contract Dispute Consultants have been working with contractors...
Happy Thanksgiving 2022
Wishing all of our clients, colleagues and friends, a Happy Thanksgiving!
Tsing Yi Lantau Link Bridges Announced
Our article earlier this month looked at new road connections to Hong Kong’s Northern Metropolis, particularly Route 11. Streets Ahead – Hong Kong Major Road Expansion to 2035 The government today announced the missing...
Streets Ahead – Hong Kong Major Road Expansion to 2035
Earlier this year, we looked at the Hong Kong government’s ambitious plans for the development of the northern New Territories into the Northern Metropolis. The plan was recently reiterated during the Policy Address by...
Infrastructure Drive in Forthcoming HK Policy Address
Hong Kong Chief Secretary John Lee to announce big infrastructure drive in forthcoming policy address according to SCMP - 3 rail links, 3 highways - UPDATED for item 6 1. Hong Kong-Shenzhen West Rail Link connecting...
How California’s SFO to LA Bullet Train Went Off the Rails
How California’s SFO to LA Bullet Train Went Off the Rails It's not just during the project construction period that problems can occur, as this article on California's High Speed Rail shows. "Political...
Long Beach International Gateway
Proud to have been involved in this great project which opened to the public two years ago today. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6983335315906138112/
Mid-Autumn Festival Greetings
Wishing all our client, colleagues and friends a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival
Interesting development on the Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge project in Texas
Interesting development on the Corpus Christi Harbor Bridge project in Texas where a threat of removal from the project if design issues were not resolved to the satisfaction of the TxDOT has forced a U-turn from the...
Hong Kong’s Chek Lap Kok Airport ~ 25 years ago
25 years ago, in July 1997 I was a young site engineer working at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok airport on the Landside Infrastructure project - recently found a few photos from a rare visit to the terminal building, Ground...
Cathay Pacific freighter passing the Hong Kong Terminal 2 Expansion Project
Cathay Pacific freighter passing the Hong Kong Terminal 2 Expansion project.
Goodbye to the Gerald Desmond: Long Beach’s old bridge is being demolished
Following the completion of Los Angeles’ new Gerald Desmond Bridge (now renamed the Long Beach International Gateway) in 2020, the decommissioning of the old Gerald Desmond Bridge has taken a major step forward with...
Another milestone for the Hong Kong airport expansion
Another milestone for the Hong Kong airport expansion with the first commercialflight touching down on the newly completed third runway this morning. CDC are proud to be assisting contractors on various contracts...
Inside Hong Kong’s Massive Underground Upgrade
Another excellent video from The B1M on Hong Kong infrastructure, this time the Shatin Central Link. A hugely challenging project not without its problems. CDC were engaged on several of the station contracts providing...
Happy Independence Day
Happy 4th of July to all of our clients, colleagues and friends in the USA.
Opening of the East Rail line will make a massive difference to mobility
Opening of the East Rail line will make a massive difference to mobility from Admiralty which will become a complex interchange station for four separate lines. CDC have been involved in several SCL throughout the...
Zaha Hadid’s The Henderson under construction in Admiralty, Hong Kong
Zaha Hadid's The Henderson under construction in Admiralty, Hong Kong last month. This will be a landmark building to rival the adjacent IM Pei's Bank of China and Norman Foster's HSBC Headquarters....
Hong Kong’s Tsing Ma Bridge emerges from the fog this morning
Hong Kong's Tsing Ma Bridge emerges from the fog this morning. Hope that Hong Kong will emerge from the fog of COVID shortly - there is a huge raft of infrastructure to deliver....
With the Omicron outbreak raging, construction sites are still working
With the Omicron outbreak raging, construction sites are still working around the clock in Hong Kong. Here's a shot from Zaha Hadid's Murray Road construction site in Admiralty this evening, on reportedly the world's...
Some more great visuals of the deconstruction of the main span of the Champlain Bridge in Montreal
Some more great visuals of the deconstruction of the main span of the Champlain Bridge in Montreal. This operation will soon be repeated on another of our projects, the Gerald Desmond Bridge in Long Beach, California....
International Women’s Day 2022
Celebrating the success of our women on International Women's Day 2022.
Many construction projects are facing the prospect of suspensions to limit the spread of coronavirus (Part 2)
With Hong Kong being impacted by an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, many construction projects are facing the prospect of suspensions to limit the spread of the virus. In early 2020, we reviewed...
Many construction projects are facing the prospect of suspensions to limit the spread of coronavirus (Part 1)
With Hong Kong being impacted by an outbreak of the highly transmissible Omicron variant, many construction projects are facing the prospect of suspensions to limit the spread of the virus. In early 2020, we reviewed...
Shatin Central Link A Direct Connection from Admiralty to Lowu and Lok Ma Chau
With extension of the East Rail line across the harbour, the Shatin Central Link will provide a new cross harbour rail link and a direct connection from Admiralty to Lowu and Lok Ma Chau. CDC have been assisting...
Hong Kong’s Pivot to the North
Northern Metropolis Development Will Drive New Rail Developments As a set of steep, mainly hilly islands in the South China Sea, the most pressing issue for Hong Kong has long been provision of sufficient land for...
MTR begins trial operations for East Rail Line cross-harbour extension
Trial operations begin on the cross harbour portion of MTR's new Shatin Central line ahead of opening in the middle of this year - construction was a massive undertaking with some very challenging individual projects....
Wishing you a healthy and prosperous year in 2022
Wishing you a healthy and prosperous year in 2022 from all of us at Contract Dispute Consultants.
June opening set for key MTR link
The cross harbour portion of MTR's new Shatin Central line is nearing completion - a massive undertaking with some very challenging individual projects. Target opening announced for June 2022. This new line will form a...
Major span of Champlain Bridge dismantled and taken away
Decommissioning of Montreal’s old Champlain Bridge across the St Lawrence River reaches a milestone with removal of the main span. CDC undertook a commercial review for the contractor on the new Champlain bridge...
CDC 2021 in review
If ever there was a year to fit our advertising byline, 2021 was that year! Globally, very little has gone to plan in 2021. However, notwithstanding the challenges of COVID, the year has been hugely busy for the CDC...
Happy New Year 2022
Happy New Year to all our clients, colleagues, and friends in construction - wishing everybody a healthy and prosperous 2022.
On this day in 2009, Hong Kong’s Stonecutters Bridge opened to traffic
On this day in 2009, Hong Kong's Stonecutters Bridge opened to traffic. At the time of the construction commencement, Stonecutters Bridge was the longest stay cable bridge in the world. Check out the case study to see...
Seasons Greetings 2021
Season's greetings to all our clients, colleagues and friends from all of us at Contract Dispute Consultants.
Happy Thanksgiving 2021
Happy Thanksgiving to all our US-based clients, colleagues and friends from all of us at Contract Dispute Consultants
Drone footage of Kai Tak Sports Park Nov 2021, Hong Kong
Watch the drone footage of progress at the Kai Tak Sports Park in November 2021, one of the many projects transforming the site of the former Kai Tak airport. The scale of the stadium and extent of development is now...
Huge boost to US construction spending
A huge boost to US construction spending with the signing of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill into law delivering $550 billion of new federal investment in bridges, airports, highways and transit and rail....