Costain wins 120 million pound waste plant contract

Mon Aug 11, 2008 7:41am BST

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(Reuters) - Construction company Costain Group (COSG.L) on Monday said it won a 120 million-pound contract from Swiss plant construction company Von Roll Inova to design and build a waste plant in south-east London.

The company said construction work on the main site of the Riverside Resource Recovery facility at Belvedere started in July and the overall investment in the project is estimated at 350 million pounds.

Costain is providing design, site infrastructure and building works for the main building, jetties, roads and offices, it said in a statement.

(Reporting by Tresa Sherin Morera in Bangalore)

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