Construction, infrastructure, engineering and property development news from Kenya, Africa and international markets.
The first stage of the Bungama Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) near Port Pirie in South Australia has begun commercial operations, adding 150 megawatts (MW) / 300 megawatt-hours (MWh) of fast-responding storage to one of the world’s…
1.5GW Elementl Power nuclear power plant in Ohio is advancing with PJM filing and a GE Vernova reactor deal. The firm has filed for grid interconnection and selecting GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy’s BWRX-300 small modular reactor. The…
USACE has provided more insight into the $9bn “Project Skye” data center campus by Google in Chesterfield County, Virginia. In a further filing shared with the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Google provided more information about the…
The $10bn Energy Way Tech data center campus by Amazon and Duke Energy is set for a public hearing in Richmond County, Virginia. State regulators are drafting two air quality permits for Duke Energy and Amazon Data Services, connected to a…
French water and environmental services giant SUEZ has secured a €2 billion (US$2.28 billion) contract to operate and maintain water and wastewater services across key regions of Oman. The 15-year agreement is the company’s largest-ever…
The race to expand South Korea’s offshore wind capacity has taken a major step forward after a consortium led by Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power (KHNP) was selected as the preferred bidder for the 800MW Jeonbuk Southwest Offshore Wind…
Construction has begun on the first vertical development at The Point, a planned 600-acre mixed-use district in Draper, Utah, marking the transition from early-stage preparation into above-ground building activity within one of the state’s…
Implementation of a proposed 900-acre data center by MidAmerican is taking shape in Salix, Iowa despite fierce opposition. Energy company MidAmerican is interested in developing a campus on the land parcel, which was annexed by the Salix…
A 419-acre land parcel in Pasco County, Florida, has been acquired for the Explore by Del Webb Verona project, a planned residential development along the SR-52 corridor in one of the state’s fastest-growing regions. The acquisition…
The proposed Las Vegas Diamond Arena has reached a key development milestone after securing full control of its planned arena footprint near the Las Vegas Strip, strengthening its positioning as a potential future home for an NBA…
The South Korea semiconductor mega-project is the largest industrial bet the country has ever placed, an 800 trillion won programme worth roughly $518 billion that will plant four new memory chip fabrication plants in the nation’s…
Kazakhstan has officially broken ground on the Mirny wind project, a landmark 1-gigawatt (GW) renewable energy development in the southern Zhambyl Region that combines large-scale wind generation with advanced battery storage. The…
Kazakhstan officially launched the construction works of a landmark 1-gigawatt (GW) wind power project in the southern Zhambyl Region on June 29. This project marks one of the largest renewable energy investments in the country’s history.…
FSO Chalchi, a Suezmax-type floating storage and offloading (FSO) vessel being built to support the Trion deepwater project in the western Gulf of Mexico, has reached a major project milestone after securing US$465 million in project…
Peab has been commissioned to construct the data center FIN04A in Kouvola. The customer is atNorth and the order is valued at EUR 130 million, which is equivalent to SEK 1,440 million. Scope The project entails the construction of a new…
Norwegian state-owned energy group Statkraft has submitted a licence application to the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) to build a new Mår hydropower plant in Rjukan, in Tinn municipality, Norway. The project would…
The 1.5 GW Mona Offshore Wind Project off the coast of North Wales has cleared an early but significant hurdle on its path to construction, with the completion of a complex, four-phase ground investigation survey campaign along its onshore…
A 360‑megawatt AI Factory campus will be built in Batam, Indonesia, after Firmus Technologies and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to create one of Southeast Asia’s largest dedicated AI compute hubs. The Batam AI Factory will…
Independent Power Producer FARIA Renewables has placed an 81.66 MW order for high-efficiency solar modules from manufacturer LONGi, locking in the supply needed to build out two utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) plants in Greece’s Thessaly…
Cenomi Centers, Saudi Arabia’s leading mall developer and operator, is set to begin construction of the Al Khobar Downtown Mall and Boulevard. This project is located in the kingdom’s Eastern Province. This project will add to a list of…
The consideration of a second permanent parallel runway is in consideration of Kahului International Airport in Hawai’i. The decision comes after nearly a year of expert analysis which narrows the options down to two in reconstructing the…
The $250 million Incobrasa expansion in Gilman, Illinois has formally come online, with Governor JB Pritzker cutting the ribbon on June 22, 2026 at a new soybean crushing plant and solar array that nearly doubles the family owned…
The Ford Kentucky Truck Plant expansion is moving from rumour to planning in Louisville, with Ford Motor Company evaluating a potential $2 billion investment that would grow manufacturing operations at its largest assembly complex in the…
Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem has selected 16 long-duration energy storage (LDES) projects to move into the next stage of its flagship cap-and-floor support mechanism. The projects, announced on June 26, 2026, represent a major…
