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Some 265km of metre-gauge track in Uganda will be rehabilitated (US Army Africa/CC BY 2.0)

Uganda’s rail upgrade gets $300m loan from African Development Bank

The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lend Uganda $301m to upgrade the Kampala–Malaba Metre Gauge Railway (MGR) to link the landlocked country to Kenya and its port of Mombasa. AfDB…

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Calatrava redesign of Greek Orthodox Church destroyed in 9/11 attacks opens

WSP office (Public Domain/Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine)

Companies

WSP acquires Swiss engineering consultant

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Uganda’s rail upgrade gets $300m loan from African Development Bank

Calatrava redesign of Greek Orthodox Church destroyed in 9/11 attacks opens

Vinci takes charge of 13 Mexican airports

Taiwanese chip maker triples Arizona investment to $40bn

Bjarke Ingels Group and Safdie Architects towers complete in Quito

Adjaye Associates designs Cleveland Riverfront masterplan to “recapture lost heritage”

Innovation

Co-founders Jani-Mikael Kuusisto, left, and Jarno Vehmas show their 0.3mm-thick printed film with tiny heaters, which they say can be integrated into a building’s interior surfaces (Courtesy of The Warming Surfaces Company)

Save money by heating a room’s surfaces, not its air, tech firm says

Berge Olympus’ four sails would cut its emissions by 19 tonnes of CO2 a day, companies said (Images courtesy of Bar Technologies and Yara Marine Technologies)

Cargo ships to get steel sails to cut fuel and emissions

The agency believes space solar power could provide baseload power to European grids the way nuclear, hydro, and coal plants do now. Pictured is a solar power satellite concept developed by Nasa in 2011 (Nasa/Public domain)

European Space Agency to probe solar power from space

Companies

WSP acquires Swiss engineering consultant

Officials from Calibre and Egis shake on a deal (Calibre)

Egis to acquire companies in Middle East and New Zealand

Webuild saw the acquisition as a way to enter the markets of Western Australia, whose capital Perth is pictured here (Nathan Hurst/Unsplash)

Webuild abandons Clough takeover in Australia

Projects

Besix credited good teamwork across the project hierarchy for the safety milestone (Photograph courtesy of Besix)

Besix notches up 20 million injury-free hours on Dubai Uptown Tower

How the terminal will look when complete in 2028 (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)

Leighton Asia wins four Mumbai towers in the past three months

The office will be located on the Massachusetts Pike (SGA)

Work begins on SGA’s ultramodern Boston life sciences building

Perspectives

The study investigated 1,600 projects in 100 countries to chart the underlying causes of claims and disputes (©GCR, illustration by Denis Carrier)

35% of global project spend is burned up in disputes. This tragic waste is unnecessary

Ikea put 3,268 solar panels on a new Seattle-area store that opened in Renton, Washington State in 2017. It expected the system to produce more than a million kWh of electricity a year for the store (Photograph courtesy of Ikea via Businesswire)

Solar panels on superstore roofs would power 8 million US homes, so why don’t they do it?

The planned railway station in Ibadan (FrankvEck/CC BY-SA 4.0)

China’s reluctance to fund Nigerian rail schemes signals shift to ‘small is beautiful’ policy

Trends

The arrangement reflects both countries’ geographical constraints: Israel doesn’t have enough land to develop big solar schemes, while Jordan has plenty of desert but no easy access to open seas. Map shows refugee and transit camps in Jordan (Joint Research Centre, ECHO, European Commission/CC BY 4.0)

Our sun for your water: Israel, Jordan renew ambitious solar-for-desalination plan

Photograph by Alireza Zarafshani/Unsplash

Tomorrow’s construction leaders come together in new CIOB community

Regionally, the Middle East had the most difficulty with delays, with the average time-extension claim adding 83% to schedules (Courtesy of HKA)

Disputes batter world’s major capital projects, study finds

Markets

Demand for civil engineering is buoyed by low-carbon energy and transport schemes, but the prospects for residential output dragged the outlook downward (Hadi Yazdi Aznaveh/Unsplash)

European construction output to flatline in 2024: forecast

Among the vehicles using Nidec’s e-axle integrated drive system is the Guangzhou Group’s Zeekr saloon (Zotyefan/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Japanese EV motor maker plans $715m Mexican plant to meet demand

An aerial view of the Colorado River Bridge and the Hoover Dam in Nevada, Arizona (Vanja Terzic/Dreamstime)

Uganda’s rail upgrade gets $300m loan from African Development Bank

Calatrava redesign of Greek Orthodox Church destroyed in 9/11 attacks opens

WSP acquires Swiss engineering consultant

News

Uganda’s rail upgrade gets $300m loan from African Development Bank

Calatrava redesign of Greek Orthodox Church destroyed in 9/11 attacks opens

Vinci takes charge of 13 Mexican airports

Taiwanese chip maker triples Arizona investment to $40bn

Bjarke Ingels Group and Safdie Architects towers complete in Quito

Adjaye Associates designs Cleveland Riverfront masterplan to “recapture lost heritage”

Innovation

Save money by heating a room’s surfaces, not its air, tech firm says

Cargo ships to get steel sails to cut fuel and emissions

European Space Agency to probe solar power from space

Companies

WSP acquires Swiss engineering consultant

Egis to acquire companies in Middle East and New Zealand

Webuild abandons Clough takeover in Australia

Projects

Besix notches up 20 million injury-free hours on Dubai Uptown Tower

Leighton Asia wins four Mumbai towers in the past three months

Work begins on SGA’s ultramodern Boston life sciences building

Perspectives

35% of global project spend is burned up in disputes. This tragic waste is unnecessary

Solar panels on superstore roofs would power 8 million US homes, so why don’t they do it?

China’s reluctance to fund Nigerian rail schemes signals shift to ‘small is beautiful’ policy

Trends

Our sun for your water: Israel, Jordan renew ambitious solar-for-desalination plan

Tomorrow’s construction leaders come together in new CIOB community

Disputes batter world’s major capital projects, study finds

Markets

European construction output to flatline in 2024: forecast

Japanese EV motor maker plans $715m Mexican plant to meet demand

$60bn released for repairs to America’s crumbling roads and bridges

Construction jobs

Uganda’s rail upgrade gets $300m loan from African Development Bank

Calatrava redesign of Greek Orthodox Church destroyed in 9/11 attacks opens

WSP acquires Swiss engineering consultant

Uganda’s rail upgrade gets $300m loan from African Development Bank

Calatrava redesign of Greek Orthodox Church destroyed in 9/11 attacks opens

Vinci takes charge of 13 Mexican airports

Taiwanese chip maker triples Arizona investment to $40bn

Bjarke Ingels Group and Safdie Architects towers complete in Quito

Adjaye Associates designs Cleveland Riverfront masterplan to “recapture lost heritage”

Save money by heating a room’s surfaces, not its air, tech firm says

Cargo ships to get steel sails to cut fuel and emissions

European Space Agency to probe solar power from space

WSP acquires Swiss engineering consultant

Egis to acquire companies in Middle East and New Zealand

Webuild abandons Clough takeover in Australia

Besix notches up 20 million injury-free hours on Dubai Uptown Tower

Leighton Asia wins four Mumbai towers in the past three months

Work begins on SGA’s ultramodern Boston life sciences building

35% of global project spend is burned up in disputes. This tragic waste is unnecessary

Solar panels on superstore roofs would power 8 million US homes, so why don’t they do it?

China’s reluctance to fund Nigerian rail schemes signals shift to ‘small is beautiful’ policy

Our sun for your water: Israel, Jordan renew ambitious solar-for-desalination plan

Tomorrow’s construction leaders come together in new CIOB community

Disputes batter world’s major capital projects, study finds

European construction output to flatline in 2024: forecast

Japanese EV motor maker plans $715m Mexican plant to meet demand

$60bn released for repairs to America’s crumbling roads and bridges

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