Construction, infrastructure, engineering and property development news from Kenya, Africa and international markets.
A massive data centre and battery storage site is planned for a site in the north Devon countryside. The scheme is attracting considerable opposition from residents, who are concerned about noise, water supplies, power usage and the impact…
The Jabali Towers construction project has entered its construction phase after Tatu City appointed China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) as the main contractor for the 88,000 m² mixed-use development. Located within Tatu Central in the…
The Hitachi Energy South Boston Virginia facility broke ground on June 29, 2026, advancing what the company describes as the nation’s largest plant for the production of large power transformers, the critical and increasingly scarce…
The proposed Lonza Clermont County facility in Williamsburg Township is shaping up as one of the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing bets in Ohio’s recent history, with the Swiss contract development and manufacturing giant weighing an…
Slovakia’s 471 MW Unit 4 reactor at the Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant has begun commissioning, loading its first fuel assembly on 29 June 2026, nearly 39 years after construction first started under the former Czechoslovakia, following…
Envision Energy, a global leader in green technology, has entered into a partnership with Elements Green, a global IPP, to deliver the 1600MWh Stadorf battery energy storage system (BESS) project. This was announced at Intersolar Europe in…
When the 150 MW / 300 MWh Riverina and Darlington Point Energy Storage System switched on in late 2023, it was the largest battery connected to the grid in New South Wales — a milestone moment for a state betting heavily on storage to…
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…
