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From Sydney Harbour to the South Pacific: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
From Sydney Harbour to the South Pacific: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific Forty-five metres beneath a Sydney sports ground, two machines weighing 4,350 tonnes each are driving towards the harbour. Patyegarang and Barangaroo are 15.7 metres in diameter, making them the largest tunnel boring machines used in the … Read more…
From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia
From Tokyo to Ulaanbaatar: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across East Asia Beneath central Tokyo, a heavily used section of urban expressway is being rebuilt while the transport system around it continues operating. The 1.8 km Nihonbashi section of the Metropolitan Expressway carries around 100,000 vehicles a day. Its ageing elevated structures are being replaced … Read more…
From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China
From the Himalayas to the Yangtze: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across China On the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo, construction has begun on a hydropower project expected to cost around RMB 1.2 trillion. The development will comprise five cascade hydropower stations in Xizang, where the river cuts through some of the most difficult terrain … Read more…
From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across South Asia
From the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across South Asia Beneath the waters of Thane Creek, two enormous tunnelling machines are working towards Mumbai as part of the 21 km underground section of India’s Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail corridor. Sixteen kilometres will be driven by tunnel boring machines, while 7 km … Read more…
From the Hudson to Mexico: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across North America
From the Hudson to Mexico: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across North America At the end of September 2026, a machine weighing 1,680 tonnes began cutting into the Palisades west of Manhattan. More than 500 ft long and carrying a cutterhead almost 29 ft in diameter, the tunnel boring machine is excavating the first major … Read more…
From the Baltic to the Alps: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Europe
From the Baltic to the Alps: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Europe Deep beneath the Alps in July 2026, excavation crews working from Austria and Italy broke through the final rock separating the two main tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel at the national border. A month later, tunnel boring machine Wilma completed the … Read more…
From Brazil to Bogotá: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Latin America
From Brazil to Bogotá: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Latin America Latin America’s geography has always imposed a price on movement. The Andes divide the continent from north to south. The Amazon and other great river systems make conventional transport infrastructure difficult across enormous areas. Agricultural and mineral-producing regions can lie hundreds or thousands …… Read more…
From Lobito to Lagos: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Africa
From Lobito to Lagos: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Africa Across Africa, some of the continent’s most consequential infrastructure projects are doing more than reducing journey times. They are changing where roads and railways lead. In Southern and Central Africa, new investment is creating alternative routes from the mineral-rich Copperbelt towards ports on the … Read more…
From Manila to Singapore: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Southeast Asia
From Manila to Singapore: 10 Infrastructure Projects to Watch Across Southeast Asia Across Southeast Asia, some of the region’s largest infrastructure projects are overcoming geography that has always complicated movement. The Philippines is building a 147 km commuter railway through one of the world’s largest urban regions while boring its first underground metro beneath Manila. ̷… Read more…
Uber Freight Builds Out European 4PL Operations with Krakow Expansion
Uber Freight Builds Out European 4PL Operations with Krakow Expansion Uber Freight is expanding its European logistics operation with a new control tower planned for Krakow, Poland, dedicated technology investment and a new regional head, as the company looks to connect more of its North American managed transportation business with customers operating across Europe. The … Read more…
MIE and International Trade Council Expand Market Access Across Global Exhibitions
MIE and International Trade Council Expand Market Access Across Global Exhibitions International exhibitions increasingly have to deliver more than floor space, visitor numbers and a few days of networking. For companies entering unfamiliar markets, particularly across Africa and the Middle East, the harder work often begins after the stand has been dismantled: identifying credible partners, ̷… Read more…
Geospatial Accord Takes Surveying Standards to Government and Industry
Geospatial Accord Takes Surveying Standards to Government and Industry The information beneath a major infrastructure project often begins with work that is barely visible once construction starts. Surveyors establish the position of boundaries, structures, utilities, terrain and existing assets, creating the spatial evidence on which designers, engineers and contractors subsequently depend. The G… Read more…
Aninver and ARGON Build Joint Platform for Infrastructure and PPP Advisory
Aninver and ARGON Build Joint Platform for Infrastructure and PPP Advisory Infrastructure advisory firms Aninver Development Partners and ARGON Consultores have formed a strategic alliance combining international project experience with specialist financial and PPP expertise, while leaving both businesses operationally independent. The agreement gives the two Spanish firms greater capacity to purs… Read more…
8 of the Most Common Challenges in Construction Logistics
8 of the Most Common Challenges in Construction Logistics Even a construction project with excellent plans, skilled workers, and the right equipment can fall behind schedule when there are logistical issues. Materials may arrive late, equipment may face transportation challenges, and unexpected road and weather conditions may cause significant disruption. Understanding these issues can help …… Read more…
AMP Secures $70m for AI-Powered Waste Infrastructure
AMP Secures $70m for AI-Powered Waste Infrastructure AMP has secured $70 million in project debt financing for the next stage of a waste-processing network in Portsmouth, Virginia, designed to handle more than half a million tons of municipal solid waste each year. Led by Galvanize, the financing will fund a new sortation facility and an … Read more…
US$34m Lavalle Port Investment Opens New Route for Corrientes Freight
US$34m Lavalle Port Investment Opens New Route for Corrientes Freight A 140-metre quay on the Paraná River could change how agricultural and forestry products from southern Corrientes reach domestic and export markets. The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) has approved investment of up to US$34 million for the first phase of the Lavalle … Read more…
Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds
Construction Marketing is an Asset that Compounds Construction companies are accustomed to buying things that remain after the invoice has been paid. A new excavator enters the fleet. A batching plant increases capacity. Software becomes part of the operating system. A factory extension provides another production line. Training leaves people with capabilities they did not … Read more…
AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You
AI Can Empower You or Overwhelm You Artificial intelligence can save somebody ten minutes writing an email, or allow the same person to attempt work they could not previously have done at all. The distinction between those two uses may prove more important than the headline numbers showing how quickly AI is being adopted. The … Read more…
Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales
Mascus at 25 and the Evolution of Used Equipment Sales Selling a used excavator across borders was a considerably more cumbersome business when Mascus launched its first website in Helsinki in January 2001. Machinery dealers still depended heavily on printed classified advertising, established trading relationships, physical yards and telephone enquiries, while presenting hundreds of thousands … Read more…
Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara
Asplundh Connects Tens of Thousands of Vehicles and Equipment with Samsara Managing a fleet becomes a very different exercise when the assets being tracked extend from road vehicles and aerial lifts to wood chippers, trailers, electrical testing equipment and smaller tools scattered across thousands of jobs. Asplundh is bringing much of that operational picture together … Read more…
AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore
AI is Becoming an Operating Cost Construction Can No Longer Ignore Artificial intelligence has acquired something that every construction business understands: a meter. Generative AI systems consume tokens as they process instructions and generate responses. At the scale of an individual engineer asking an AI assistant to summarise a document, the economics can appear almost … Read more…
Road Authorities Face a New Question: Prove Why the Algorithm Deferred That Segment
Road Authorities Face a New Question: Prove Why the Algorithm Deferred That Segment A resurfacing segment sat in a 2027 programme for two cycles. An authority brought in a condition-prediction platform, reran the prioritisation, and the segment came out at 2031. Same pavement, same traffic, same visual survey. Different answer. The contractor asked why. The … Read more…
Turning Southern Africa’s Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects
Turning Southern Africa’s Infrastructure Plans into Bankable Projects Southern Africa does not lack infrastructure ambitions. The harder problem is getting projects far enough through feasibility studies, engineering, legal structuring and financial modelling for somebody to finance them. Afreximbank and the Development Bank of Southern Africa are putting up to US$10 million each into a new …… Read more…
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business
HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Building a Bigger Compact Machinery Business HD Construction Equipment and Manitou Group have agreed to exchange compact construction equipment across their respective product portfolios, creating a cross-distribution arrangement that gives both manufacturers a faster route to broaden their machinery ranges. For HD Construction Equipment, the agreement carries… Read more…
Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show
Documenting the Expertise Your CV Cannot Show Put two civil engineers in the same room. Both have spent twenty years working on major infrastructure projects. Both have managed difficult jobs, solved problems that were never anticipated in the design office and accumulated the sort of judgement that only comes from seeing things go wrong as … Read more…
The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge
The Half-Life of Construction Knowledge The most valuable asset on any construction project has never appeared on a balance sheet. It is the accumulated judgement of the people who design, build and maintain infrastructure: the engineer who has spent three decades on bridges, the plant manager who can diagnose a machine from the sound it … Read more…
Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development
Trump Tower Tbilisi Anchors $2 Billion Downtown Development A 280-metre skyscraper planned beside Tbilisi’s Central Park will become the first tower in a much larger attempt to create a new commercial and residential district in the Georgian capital. Trump Tower Tbilisi is now specified as a 62-storey building and is intended to become the tallest … Read more…
Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst
Infrastructure as an Economic Catalyst New roads through developing parts of Vietnam have often produced an effect that extends well beyond the carriageway. Once access improves, houses begin appearing beside the route. Shops, workshops and other small businesses follow. Development stretches along the road, sometimes joining previously distinct settlements into long, linear communities whose econ… Read more…
Building the Grid Behind Türkiye’s Energy Transition
Building the Grid Behind Türkiye’s Energy Transition A US$207 million financing package is being directed into the less visible side of Türkiye’s energy transition: the electricity distribution networks that have to accommodate rising demand, renewable generation and increasingly electrified transport and industry. Enerjisa Enerji has secured a seven-year loan from the European Bank for Reco… Read more…
Africa’s Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives
Africa’s Green Infrastructure Problem Starts Before the Money Arrives Africa does not lack infrastructure proposals. The harder problem is turning those proposals into projects sufficiently developed, structured and de-risked for investors to finance. A $10 million commitment from Proparco to the Africa Green Infrastructure Alliance Project Development Fund, known as AGIA-PD, is aimed at that R… Read more…
ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle
ADB Backs the Next Five Years of the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle More than $3.7 billion of Asian Development Bank support was benefiting areas within the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle by August 2026, as the three countries prepare a new five-year programme covering transport links, economic corridors and regional development projects. The Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand G… Read more…
Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam
Building a New Tungsten Supply Chain Through Vietnam Tungsten concentrate mined in South Korea is set to travel to Vietnam for conversion into ammonium paratungstate and tungsten oxides under a long-term processing agreement between GB Innovation and Masan High-Tech Materials. The movement of material across those borders tells a larger story about the tungsten market. … Read more…
From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content
From Prompt to Production: The Changing Economics of Visual Content A commercial photograph can begin with an idea that takes seconds to describe and end with days of work involving a photographer, location, equipment, models, transport, permissions, post-production and approval. Illustration, architectural visualisation and sophisticated product rendering carry their own production chains, with m… Read more…
Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production
Bechtel Turns to Wet Processing for its Next Century of Materials Production A quarry and materials business founded in southern Germany in 1926 is preparing for its second century with an investment that says rather more about the changing economics of aggregates than the anniversary itself. Bechtel Group is developing a new wet processing plant … Read more…
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada
Industrial Drones Become Flying Sensor Platforms in Canada The industrial drone is becoming less important than what hangs underneath it. Across surveying, mining, utilities and environmental monitoring, increasingly specialised instruments are being adapted to fly aboard commercial UAV platforms. Ground-penetrating radar can search below the surface, magnetometers can map variations in magnetic f… Read more…
Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance
Reputation is Infrastructure You Build in Advance Somewhere, a construction company is being researched by somebody it has never met. It might be a contractor looking for technology to solve an unusual engineering problem, a distributor searching for a specialist manufacturer to represent in a new territory, or an infrastructure owner investigating unfamiliar approaches. It … Read more…
Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance
Trans-Kalahari Railway Moves From Feasibility to the Harder Question of Finance After more than a decade of bilateral planning, Botswana and Namibia are moving the Trans-Kalahari Railway towards procurement, bringing one of Southern Africa’s most ambitious proposed freight corridors closer to the point where engineering feasibility must be converted into a commercially viable railway. The &#… Read more…
Private Finance Backs Bihar’s 336 km Greenfield Expressway Plan
Bihar Plans 336 km Buxar–Bhagalpur Expressway Under DBFOT Model Bihar has approved plans for a 336 km, six-lane greenfield expressway between Buxar in the west of the state and Bhagalpur in the east, setting in motion one of its more ambitious road projects and placing private finance at the centre of its delivery strategy. The … Read more…
Crane Worldwide Opens Nordic Offices as Sims Crane Develops Commercial Strategy
Crane Worldwide Opens Nordic Offices as Sims Crane Develops Commercial Strategy Crane Worldwide Logistics is establishing new operations in Copenhagen, Gothenburg and Stavanger, giving the Houston-headquartered freight and supply chain company a direct presence in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, whilst in the United States, Sims Crane & Equipment is strengthening its commercial management with the… Read more…
Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase
Dominican Republic Takes National Toll Network into its Next Digital Phase The Dominican Republic is preparing to upgrade 20 toll plazas and 183 lanes under a new national deployment of Kapsch TrafficCom’s SmartToll technology, extending a programme that has already brought electronic payment, new toll infrastructure and digital monitoring to some of the country’s busiest … Read more…
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