Construction, infrastructure, engineering and property development news from Kenya, Africa and international markets.
NEOM is regarded as the world’s most ambitious project as it seeks to revolutionize Saudi Arabia’s tourism landscape. However, this ambitious project has not had a smooth sail. Earlier last year, amid speculations of its scope and…
The GIGA Green Turtle battery park is a major battery energy storage system (BESS) being developed by GIGA Storage Belgium at the Rotem/Dilsen-Stokkem industrial area in Limburg province, north-western Belgium. The project is designed to…
A major modernization effort is taking off at Chicago O’Hare International Airport, as Turner Paschen Aviation Partners—a joint venture of Turner Construction Company, FH Paschen, d’Escoto Inc., GMA, SPAAN Tech, and Brown & Momen—has been…
The alarming climate crisis has necessitated an urgent transformation in many industries, such as CornWall. The reliance on tiles in the past years has seen it being used in all building constructions, large scale or small scale. The…
Caterpillar, the world leading in construction OEM (original equipment manufacturing), has indicated its full intention to adopt Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Construction to improve its own business along with its clientele. Scope The…
Kolkata Metro Railway, as it is getting geared up to construct the Mominpur-Esplanade Section of Joka-Esplanade Corridor in Kolkata Metro. A project with an aim to uplift Kolkata passengers’ travel experience by providing those…
520 Fifth Avenue, which is under construction in the heart of Midtown, Manhattan, is set to be the tallest residential building on New York’s Fifth Avenue Street upon completion at 1000 feet or rather 305 meters and 88 floors tall. The…
Brightline commencing its $12 billion high speed rail effort is going to be starting next week to link between Las Vegas and Southern California. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg heads up this operation along with directors,…
The Brightline West project is a planned high-speed rail development intended to connect Las Vegas, Nevada, with Southern California. The project is designed to provide intercity passenger rail service between the two regions. A…
The world’s first pure octagonal high-rise residential building is currently under construction in Birmingham, a city in the West Midlands region of England, approximately 160 kilometres from London. To be precise the building, dubbed…
While long time ago the construction sector was involved in experiments made with the new materials, some were really so peculiar that we could not believe them at first sight. And you’ve already heard soy plastics, but did you that…
Findings by the Building Industry Bargaining Council (BIBC) indicate that businesses not registered with the organisation do not have the basic infrastructure in place to deliver on quality outcomes. In addition, they often miss deadlines…
Sandton Gate Phase 2 Project has commenced with earthworks having begun in April. The project is scheduled to be completed some time next year. The project scope Sandton Gate Phase 2 is to incorporate the construction of 10 000 square…
The construction of the world’s tallest timber tower, which will also be the tallest in Africa draws near. There is a possibility that the construction of the tower could start as soon as the end of 2024. The Burj Zanzibar, the planned…
The Legends Tower in Oklahoma City continues to move forward despite significant regulatory hurdles and public skepticism. As of mid-2025, developer Scot Matteson of Matteson Capital confirmed that the project, part of the larger…
The Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing is a wildlife infrastructure project under construction in Southern California. The project is intended to provide a safe passage for wildlife across U.S. Highway 101 and improve habitat connectivity…
505 State Street is New York’s first all-electric skyscraper. Located in Downtown Brooklyn, the 44-story residential tower was completed earlier this month. The structure stands at 482-feet and is fully electric-powered. It features 441…
Innovative self-cleaning coatings and paints offer numerous opportunities to reduce maintenance costs, enhance building aesthetics, and possibly improve air quality. However, challenges such as ensuring durability and scalability remain.…
A height increase request for the Legends Tower, which will become the tallest building in the United States, has recently received approval in the city of Oklahoma thereby allowing the project to proceed to its next stage of development.…
Bekaert, a global market and technology leader in the material science of steel wire transformation and coating technologies, has been appointed to provide mooring solution analysis for the Nautical SUNRISE project. The latter aims to…
As of April 2024, the Monsson battery energy storage system in Constanța County is the largest of its kind in Romania. With an installed capacity of 24 MWh – (6MW x 4h), the facility was built and inaugurated on April 2024 by Monsson.…
The implementation of the world’s longest interconnector project, the Morocco-UK interconnector project faces a major setback. The proposed project has seen a projected cost rise to £24B according to the project developers Xlinks. The…
Shenzhen’s newest skyscraper, The China Merchants Bank Headquarters, has officially been topped out. Located in ‘Smart City’, the project was undertaken by Foster + Partners, a British architecture studio. The 388-metre-tall structure has…
Segesca studies have recently brought affirmation that feasibility studies of the Morocco-Spain High-Speed Rail project and a projected timeline for the execution of the project at a timeline of up to five years. Rabat has began its…
