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Carlsbad Desal Plant Projects, California
Water North AmericaThe Carlsbad Desalination Plant in California is the first large-scale ocean-water desalination project constructed in the Western hemisphere
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IJGlobal Awards 2022 – North America Company Winners
Oil & Gas North AmericaThe infrastructure community amassed last night in the glorious Guastavino’s to celebrate the successes of 2022 at the IJGlobal Awards, achieving levels of razmataz that can only be attained at a New York event
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IJGlobal Awards 2022 – North America Deal Winners
Oil & Gas North AmericaThe infrastructure and energy community for the Americas gathered last night at the glorious Guastavino’s in New York to celebrate the IJGlobal Awards 2022
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IJGlobal Annual Report 2023
Renewables North AmericaIJGlobal is today publishing its annual report that will be printed and made available to guests at the London awards night on Thursday 9 March
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Major Bridges P3, Pennsylvania
Transport North AmericaAlmost 7 years after Pennsylvania signed its first P3 agreement, the Commonwealth reached financial close on another significant bridges project – Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s first package of the Major Bridges P3 programme
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IJGlobal ESG Awards 2022: CIBC and Hydrostor
Renewables North AmericaOff the back of CIBC’s recent ESG Adviser of The Year award for the Americas, Robert Todd, managing director in the bank’s energy, infrastructure and transition business, and Curtis VanWalleghem, co-founder and CEO of Hyrdostor, discuss the evolving area of energy storage
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JFK Terminal 6, NY
Transport North AmericaThe final piece of New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport transformation plan is finally underway after Terminal 6 reached financial close last month
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Infra Dig – Lars Carlstrom, the Gigafactory man
Renewables North AmericaGigafactories are flavour of the day for this latest Infra Dig podcast as Lars Carlstrom – founder and chief executive of Italvolt and Statevolt – pulls up a chair for a fireside chat on his favourite subject
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Clackamas County Courthouse P3, Oregon
Social & Defence North AmericaOregon’s first courthouse P3 project reached financial close this summer, in a deal that will replace Clackamas County’s more than 80-year-old structure which has become functionally obsolete and seismically unsound
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REFF Wall Street 2022 – the webinar
Renewables North AmericaPrior to hosting REFF Wall Street last week in New York, IJGlobal hosted a webinar as a teaser for delegates and sponsors, giving a flavour of what as to come. That taste of the market is shared today...
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Infra Dig – Toll Road to Damascus Experience
Transport North AmericaWhen it comes to asset ownership in the infrastructure and energy space, commonly-used metrics have become synonymous with good governance… but what if one of them was fundamentally flawed?
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JFK New Terminal One, NY
Transport North AmericaThe single largest airport P3 project in the US reached financial close this summer, a development that is expected to change the aviation landscape in New York for years to come
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LIBOR phase out of Sterling and the US Dollar markets
Renewables North AmericaAfter decades of service, LIBOR effectively ceased to be used as an interest rate benchmark at the end of 2021 in most markets. Synthetic LIBOR will continue to be published for Sterling until the end of 2022 but only to support legacy deals that hadn’t transitioned to an RFR by the end of 2021
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The Mariana dam collapse and its impact on infra
Mining North AmericaThere has been extensive commentary on the SEC’s recent action against Vale in New York for violating antifraud and reporting provisions of the federal securities laws by making false and misleading statements about dam safety in the company’s sustainability reports and other environmental, social and governance disclosures. The alleged violations relate to the building of the Brumadinho dam
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Washington DC Smart Street Lighting P3
Social & Defence North AmericaThe District of Columbia reached financial close on its inaugural P3 project - DC Smart Street Lighting - last month with a final debt package of roughly $160 million
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ESG – another person’s poison
Renewables North AmericaWhen ESG first reared its head, most folk furrowed brows and disappeared down the rabbit hole of debate which featured repeat analogies where meat and poison feature repeatedly
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Maryland Purple Line transit P3
Transport North AmericaThe Maryland Purple Line Light Rail P3 has a new debt financing package in place, replacing an earlier loan and allowing the beleaguered project to commence construction and transit operations to commence in 2026
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Bernhard acquisition, US
Renewables North AmericaIn December 2021, DIF Capital Partners announced the completion of its acquisition of Bernhard - the largest privately-owned Energy-as-a-Service solutions company in the country
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Capital availability drives US project finance
Oil & Gas North AmericaThe project finance market has been especially dynamic since the start of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. Here Will Marder of Wilmington Trust takes a look at how it has evolved in that time