Construction, infrastructure, engineering and property development news from Kenya, Africa and international markets.
Five years after Guangdong’s Shunde District launched its ambitious plan to develop 10 ultra-large modern thematic industrial parks across the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the initiative has largely evolved from a…
Update 1st July 2025 – The UK’s largest solar project, Cleve Hill Solar Park in Kent, is now fully operational, exporting clean energy at its full 373 MW capacity. Developed by Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners, the massive project is more…
As of June 2026, the Milner M2 natural gas plant near Grande Cache, Alberta, the roughly 204 megawatt facility that Maxim Power Corp. first brought online in 2020, has finished the combined cycle upgrade that was only an option when the…
Sizewell C nuclear power station project in Suffolk, England, has moved decisively into its delivery phase following the UK government’s final investment approval and the completion of a multi-billion-pound financing package. The 3.2 GW…
The Kanoya Osaki Solar Hills solar power plant is located across Kanoya City and Osaki Town in Kagoshima Prefecture. It is fully operation following construction of a ground-mounted installation with approximately 100 MW peak capacity and…
The Pyeongtaek Samsung Electronics P2 facility is a semiconductor complex in South Korea with EUV-based foundry lines and memory production. Samsung undertook a major expansion of the facility between May 2020 and 2021. Aim for this was to…
The Western Downs Green Power Hub solar project in Queensland, Australia is a large-scale renewable energy development designed to supply clean electricity to the national grid. Located near Chinchilla in the Western Downs region, the…
Equatorial Guinea plans to convert the existing Punta Europa methanol plant (AMPCO) on Bioko Island into a modular crude refinery as part of its Gas Mega Hub strategy. The initiative is driven by concerns over declining gas production from…
As of June 2026, the Ulsan liquid hydrogen plant, a joint venture between South Korea’s Hyosung Group and German industrial gas supplier Linde built at the Hyosung Chemical Yongyeon site in Ulsan, has moved well past the planning stage…
The execution of the planned US$ 3.5bn Soyo oil refinery project in Angola was expected to start in early 2023 according to officials from the US-led Quanten Consortium that includes Cisco Systems CSCO.O and KBR Inc. However to date…
Updated November 20, 2025 – Avangrid has secured the final permit for the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line project, clearing regulation for planned energization by end-year 2025. The permit comes after approval…
Construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was cancelled and shelved following TC Energy’s termination of the project in 2021. This was after years of legal battles and regulatory reversals. While the original cross-border crude oil pipeline…
Japanese renewables developer Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions secured an EPC contract for the Onikoube Solar Power Plant in 2021. Onikoube is a 154.98 MW (initially 147 MW) ground-mounted solar PV facility to be built in Osaki City,…
Municipal wastewater utilities increasingly adopt modern technologies to improve treatment efficiency and energy recovery. In Downers Grove, Illinois, United States, operators upgraded digester mixing infrastructure to improve sludge…
Dogger Bank Wind Farm continues to strengthen the UK’s renewable energy infrastructure as construction advances across all three phases of the world’s largest offshore wind project. Since work began in 2021, the development has progressed…
The Mati road is a 103-kilometer stretch of road linking Embu, Tharaka-Nithi and Meru counties in the Eastern region of Kenya that was completed in 2020. The completion of the road, was launched by President Uhuru Kenyatta, and came 20…
Rising complaints about missed completion timelines and lack of information on final products in the off-plan housing market points to a gaping hole in customer service in the real estate sector. Customer trust has been eroded and the…
The Hoima oil refinery project in Uganda has recently entered a critical development phase, marked by a significant shift in regional investment and strategic partnerships. Currently, the project, estimated at $4 billion, is moving forward…
Monitoring devices able to detect high levels of carbon dioxide have been introduced to the local market to help detect poor air quality that can lead to sick building syndrome. Distributed and supported by local technology provider, Euca…
Smart cities rely on smart grid technology that includes traditional and renewable energy sources in its mix of power supply. Driven by the advanced technology of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), the smart grid technology is able to…
How an understanding of Geology and Geotechnics can aid Structural Design report by Oliver Woodruff (CEng MICE). Uganda, a land of rich geological history, sits upon the African Techtronic Plate which encompasses the majority of…
Glory Paints is a brand manufactured by Nasib Industrial Products Limited, which is an organically Kenyan business established in Nairobi, Kenya. From humble beginnings in 1992,Glory Paints has rooted itself in the Kenyan market as a…
Construction of a 13 MW solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant meant to provide electricity for Nordgold’s Bissa and Bouly mines in Burkina Faso, is a planned project that has not yet seen the light of day. The project was slated to have…
The Cairo International Airport Terminal 4 is a fourth passenger terminal planned for the airport at Heliopolis in northeast Cairo, and Egypt has now attached firm numbers to a scheme that sat without a budget or a schedule for years.…
