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On November 22, 2011, SGS CORREL Rail officially presented the Railway Industry Supplier Approval Scheme to Eversholt Rail’s Chief Executive Officer, Mary Kenny, at the company’s offices in London, UK. Eversholt Rail Group has now become the second major rolling stock company (ROSCO) to achieve RISAS certification.

In order to prove the highest level of capability in buying, managing and overseeing maintenance of the most critical aspects of rolling stock—which are crucial to…

The Certificate of Conformity Europe (CE Mark) is a seal that indicates that the product to which it is affixed is in conformance with EU Product Safety Directives, which apply to all products that are put into service for the first time within the European Economic Area. SGS responded to the fact that the European Community has required most stone products to bear the CE mark since 2007, by opening its laboratory for natural stone and homogeneous material in Xiamen, China on August 7, 2009.…

On December 5-7, 2011, SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company, is participating in the Global Infrastructure Financing 2011 Conference (GIF) which takes place in The Cumberland Hotel, London, UK. Throughout the event, SGS’s team of experts will hold an informative presentation on ‘Risk Management’ as well as a workshop on ‘Renewable Energy Infrastructure Financing’.…

On October 10, 2011, SGS Industrial Services was assigned a contract to conduct comprehensive third-party services for the construction of 72 kilometers of new roads in Mumbai, India. During the entire contract, scheduled from October 2011 to August 2012, SGS will perform Project Monitoring services to ensure the project meets all quality and performance requirements.

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, established in 1882, is the primary agency responsible for urban…

In 2010, SGS Industrial Services, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification company, was awarded a contract to provide comprehensive monitoring services of the BP-1413 highway’s viaduct over Can Fatjó (Cerdanyola del Vallès - Barcelona) in Spain.

A team of highly skilled SGS experts monitors the main stretch of the BP-1413 highway’s viaduct via two 25-meter long optic fibers…

The King Fahd Causeway is a 25-kilometer long and 23-meter wide marine, four-lane road connecting Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, supposed to support road traffic and significantly reduce travel time between the two kingdoms.

Since constructing a causeway with these dimensions and situating it in a harsh environment of the Middle East presented a big challenge due to the high risk of early damages to the concrete, the project owner looked for a reliable…

In January 2010, SGS Industrial Services was awarded a contract to provide Project Management Services, Health, Safety and Environment Management and Quality Control inspections for one of the biggest road building projects in the recent history of Senegal by AGEROUTE, the Road Administration Agency in Senegal.



Beginning in January 2010 and planned for completion in April 2012, the Senegal infrastructure project, comprising 120 km of bitumen roads, 65 km of tracks and 16 km of urban…

In May 2011, SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, was awarded a contract by Abigroup to provide comprehensive Pavement Engineering for the Reid Alexander Interchange in Perth, Australia. As a sub-contractor, SGS is performing periodic pavement surveys to evaluate the quality of the newly constructed highway.

SGS was assigned a contract to provide complex Pavement Engineering for the Reid Alexander Interchange Project in Perth,…

SGS, the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, successfully offers testing and CE (Certificate of Conformity Europe) certification for stone exports to European countries at its laboratory for natural stone and homogeneous material in Xiamen, China. Strategically positioned in one of the major stone production and export regions of China and a leading source of stone in the world, the SGS lab, offers excellent support for local and international trading…

SGS Industrial Services was awarded a contract to provide comprehensive inspection and testing services for the construction of a thirty-eight storey steel structured building, located at Chin Shan South Road in Taipei City, Taiwan, on April 28, 2011.

Throughout the entire contract, scheduled for construction from July 2011 to March 2012, SGS Industrial Services will perform Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)…

As an independent third-party company, SGS INTRON was assigned a contract to provide extensive Certification Services for TenCate Grass and its partners in 2010. During the entire contract, SGS INTRON has developed and implemented various certification schemes and conducted Certification Services. With SGS INTRON’s Certification, TenCate Grass is the first company in the international synthetic grass industry to offer its clients an insured performance warranty on the performance and…

From June 28-30, 2011, SGS will be sponsoring the 18th Projects and Infrastructure International 2011 in Brussels, Belgium, a leading infrastructure and energy finance conference. SGS experts, Jale Cairney and Len Beale, will give a presentation entitled ’Risk Management on Mega Projects’ and chair a part of the PPP and Transport Finance Forum on Greenfield Projects on June 30. Furthermore, SGS will showcase a wide range of services for Project Finance, Risk Management and Collateral…

Within the framework of the project by OJSC SUEK and Omega Minerals International Group SGS has completed Construction Supervision works for the construction of a new processing plant for ash and slag residuals from coal-fired power plants located in Belovo, Kemerovo Region in Russia.

The new processing plant for ash and slag residuals from coal-fired power plants located in Belovo, Kemerovo Region in Russia, commissioned at the end of March 2011, will perform the integrated…

SGS Industrial Services in India won a tender to provide complex inspection services for storm water drainage project in Chennai, India, issued by the Corporation of Chennai, the oldest municipal institution in India, in July 2010. During the 26-month contract, SGS will provide a wide range of inspection services, including Construction Supervision and Quality Assurance and Quality Control.

In order to assure the quality during the construction works of the storm water…

On February 17, 2011, SGS was selected out of many competitors to conduct Project Management Services, including but not limited to Project Coordination, Quality Assurance and Quality Control and Safety Management, during the construction of the new corporate office by Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in Kolkata, India. The contract is scheduled over a period of 32 months.

Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), a…

For the first time the Russian subsidiary of the SGS Group, SGS Vostok Limited, obtained the authorization to supervise construction works at hazardous, technically complex and unique construction sites.

SGS Vostok Limited is one of the first expert organizations to obtain an authorization to provide Construction Supervision services for complex construction sites. The Self-Regulating Organization of Builders StroyRegion issued the Certificate of Authorization which is…

For the road works on the Spanish highway ‘Eix Diagonal’ SGS has provided its supervision services. The project is worth 375 million Euros and covers a route of 70km between the Pyrenees and the coast near Barcelona.

SGS has been providing comprehensive supervision services for the Spanish highway ‘Eix Diagonal’ road works, including quality assurance, quality control, construction supervision and project monitoring services.



The goal of the project is the improvement of…

Based on its extensive experience and competence, SGS has been assigned to provide Project Management and Coordination services for health and safety throughout the integral maintenance road works for the Rondas and Gran Via Norte routes in Barcelona, Spain.

The ‘Rondas’ of Barcelona, ring roads which extend for 36 kilometers, are vital to the road infrastructure of Barcelona, serving as they do the municipalities of the Metropolitan Area and enabling urban mobility. With…

As the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company, SGS is pleased to announce that it is playing a major coordinating role in one of the biggest road building projects in the recent history of Senegal. The entire project comprises 120km of bitumen roads, 65km of tracks and 16km of urban works. The project goal is to improve the road network, with great emphasis lying on further regional integration of the trade routes of the North and West African Road…