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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…

Images courtesy of Santiago Calatrava

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

One of them is Acapulco International Airport, which opened a new terminal in 2018 (Microstar/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Vinci takes charge of 13 Mexican airports

TSMC will now build a second “fab” in Phoenix, Arizona, seen here from a plane in January 2022 (BubbaJuice/CC0 1.0 Universal)

Taiwanese chip maker triples Arizona investment to $40bn

BIG’s Iqon and Safdie Architects’ Qorner courtesy of Uribe Schwarzkopf

Bjarke Ingels Group and Safdie Architects towers complete in Quito

Renders courtesy of Adjaye Associates

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

The company’s portfolio includes these four luxury townhouses at an urban infill site in Los Gatos, California, designed by architect Metro Design Group and installed in just three days (Courtesy of Plant Prefab)

US modular housing firm Plant Prefab secures $42m for expansion

BCPG president Niwat Adirek (centre) at yesterday’s signing ceremony (BCPG)

Thai-Chinese venture plans $1.5bn onshore wind farm in Laos

The Paraguayan capital of Asuncíon. Paraguay presently has almost no functioning rail network (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Korean group in line to build, operate $1.6bn Paraguayan light railway

The new highway sections will have technology to accommodate self-driving vehicles and diagnose road-surface performance (Render courtesy of Webuild)

Webuild signs €1.26bn Italian roads contract

The signing ceremony for the hospital (Hill International)

Hill to oversee construction of $400m teaching hospital in Jordan

Trojena courtesy of Bechtel

Bechtel win management contract for Saudi Arabian ski resort

The company will help move 1,156 staff out of General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital to a new, $302m one (©GCR, illustration by Denis Carrier)

SNC-Lavalin wins $62m contract to decant old army hospital to new one

A visualisation of the A7 replacement bridge (DEGES)

Implenia-led team wins €250m bridge over the Kiel Canal

Image courtesy of Bam

Bam, Rambøll and Sweco begin six-month work programme at Antarctic research hub

Images courtesy of ZHA/Negativ

Zaha Hadid Architects designs Singapore science centre

The groundbreaking and bricklaying ceremony was held on Sunday (ECOWAS)

Ground breaks on China-funded HQ for league of West African nations

The Karun river near Iran’s border with Iraq (Geographer/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Iran starts building own-brand nuclear plant

Smog over Almaty in Kazakhstan gets trapped over the city by an atmospheric mechanism known as thermal inversion (Igors Jefimovs/CC BY 3.0)

Hill to convert polluting coal plant in Kazakhstan to gas

An artist’s impression of the Ska radio telescope (Ska Observatory)

Work begins on €1.9bn SKA radio telescope in South Africa and Australia

Creating 7,000 construction jobs, it will be the largest single private investment in Ohio’s history (Render of the New Albany campus courstey of Intel)

Bechtel lands role on Intel’s $20bn chip factory scheme in Ohio

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