David Rogers

Contributing Editor at Global Construction Review

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Big Chinese and Egyptian builders team up for African megaprojects

3 days ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Madbouly said the deal supported a strategic partnership between the two countries. Egypt’s housing minister Sherif El Sherbiny said the agreement resulted from his recent visit to China, adding the aim was to share resources to “implement megaprojects in Egypt and across Africa”.
ICE raid detains more than 100 workers in Florida

5 days ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

Masked officers in camouflage were seen detaining workers at a site near Florida State University’s Doak Campbell Stadium. A spokesperson for the university later said it had not given information to ICE. Those detained were nationals of Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, and Honduras, among others. One individual was taken into custody for resisting arrest and is facing four counts of assault on law enforcement officers.
Hawaii’s $2.4bn telescope scheme axed for lack of funds

5 days ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

Work on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea is being threatened by a cut to the budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The foundation’s budget proposal, published at the end of last week, reduced its funding request from $9 bn to $3.9bn for the next fiscal year. The foundation is also working on the $2.5bn Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile’s Atacama desert. It had already indicated that it will not be able to pay for both projects (see further reading).
Google reportedly investing $10bn in Arkansas datacentre

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

West Memphis lies to the west of Memphis, Tennessee across the Mississippi River. The Memphis Business Journal reports that it will have five server farms, offices, a road network and a substation big enough to handle the enormous amount of power the facility will require. A special purpose vehicle called Groot LLC is developing the project, the Journal reports.
India’s Sobha to build six-tower luxury scheme in Dubai

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The towers at “Sobha Central” will be linked by an elevated path giving access to a gym, theatre, clubhouse, mall, restaurants, supermarkets and a Grand Hall. Out of doors, the project will have landscaped terraces, infinity pools and private courtyards in the central park. Ravi Menon, chairman of Sobha Group, said the towers were “a bold expression of our vision to shape the future of urban living in Dubai”.
Bumper year for Strabag AG as Germany tackles old infrastructure

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

Work won included the renovation of the Hamburg-Berlin railway, the replacement of the Leine and Leineflut bridges south of Hanover, and construction of a 900m viaduct across the Uttrichshausen Valley near Kalbach in Hessen. This last carries the A7, which at 1,000km is Europe’s longest motorway. The company’s work on road building also showed growth, rising 6% to some €4bn.
Mexico starts first four lines in $58bn rail expansion plan

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The first to start will be a 220km link between Mexico City and the industrial hub of Querétaro to the northwest. This route acquired some notoriety after a previous government hired a Chinese-Mexican consortium to build it in 2014, but later cancelled the project over cost concerns (see further reading). This version of the link is expected to cost $7.6bn and to serve 5.6 million passengers a year.
First Nation Peoples in Canada sign nuclear deal with Westinghouse

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The plan is to install an AP300 unit in the Port of Belledune. Local developers such as the Belledune Port Authority and New Brunswick Power will buy the electricity produced; other possible customers are factories and data centres. Belledune has four terminals and 650ha of development land. The port authority wants to set up a green energy hub and use it to attract low-carbon industries. It identified SMR technology as a way to do this back in 2022.
Work completed on East Africa’s longest bridge

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The bridge has a total length of 4.7km, including a 520m low-pylon cable-stayed section, making it the longest in East Africa. It will be declared open by Tanzanian president Samia Suluhu Hassan on 19 June. The project was funded entirely by her government. In the past, communications along the south of Lake Victoria relied on ferries, which added three hours to journeys and stifled economic activity between Lake Zone towns.
Chelsea FC plans branded tower complex in Dubai

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

Damac showcased Chelsea Residences last week at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge ground in Fulham, west London. It said the “exclusive event” attracted investors and high-net-worth individuals. Combined, the towers will have 1,400 apartments, with Chelsea branding “woven into their fabric, from the concierge service to the high-performance spaces”, according to Chelsea FC’s website.

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