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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

Israel and Jordan have renewed a groundbreaking agreement to trade solar energy generated in Jordan, one of the world’s most water-stressed countries, for water desalinated in Israel. The MoU signed…

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

The 96m tower is planned for Fumba Town, the location of the “Silicon Zanzibar” initiative to attract tech companies to the fast growing island (Courtesy of OMT)

Developer unveils plans for Africa’s first hybrid timber tower in Zanzibar

Vancouver’s Canada Line is a 19km commuter railway running from the city’s downtown waterfront to its airport and the city of Richmond (Wikipedia user-Wpcpey/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Why Vancouver’s Canada Line is getting its own digital twin

Migrant workers in Doha, Qatar. While the hated kafala system of sponsored labour that kept workers in conditions of modern slavery has largely been dismantled, the ILO points to gaps in implementation (Alex Sergeev/www.asergeev.com/CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Qatar has more work to do on modern slavery, ILO says

Six UK professional institutes hatch plan to boost diversity

How a skills shortage in southern Europe could threaten the EU’s €750bn Covid recovery fund

Scheme to draw new Canadians into construction eases skills shortage

US records highest-ever construction vacancies amid pleas for federal help

Chinese supervisor becomes first foreign worker allowed to stay in Japan

California to test solar panels on canals as major source of energy

‘Decaying faith in the nation’: Kansas University gets funding to rethink bridge design

Plant-based egg factory breaks ground in Singapore

Three tips for 4D BIM success

We have enough tools now, focus on people: Skanska’s BIM challenge

Modified excavator gets paralysed operator back in the cabin

Taking off into turbulence: Hill boss Raouf Ghali on US infrastructure and the pandemic’s effects

Global coalition launches world’s first standard for counting projects’ carbon

750 years of delay: Study highlights ‘astounding’ cost of construction disputes

Inspired by giants, Finland constructs wooden demo building to promote timber

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