Rod Sweet

London

Editor at Global Construction Review

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Articles

How a digital twin might help Nairobi go green

1 week ago | constructionmanagement.co.uk | Rod Sweet

Making Nairobi, one of Africa’s biggest cities, greener is a vast and complex task. Rod Sweet speaks to a team of researchers proposing a city-wide digital twin that might make it happen. Nairobi City County – comprising mostly Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi – wants to be greener. That means more trees and green space, fewer emissions, less embodied carbon, more wetlands and richer biodiversity.
Jacobs to rebuild US Virgin Islands eight years after hurricanes

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

Hired by the US Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority, Jacobs will work with the islands’ Super Project Management Office on rebuilding hospitals, schools, transit corridors, power, water and wastewater utilities over the next three years. It will advise on future project planning, environmental management, logistics, supply chain and workforce challenges. Some 90,000 people live on the Caribbean archipelago, mainly on the islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John.
Sany profits surge 32% in 2024

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

Some $6.8bn (64%) of revenue came from international sales, up just over 12% on 2023, the company said in its 2024 results. Most of the revenue (76%) came from earthmoving ($4.25bn), concrete ($2bn), and hoisting machinery ($1.83bn). Sales of road machinery grew 20.8% year-on-year. Asia and Australia drove growth in international sales, contributing $2.88bn, about 15.5% up on 2023. The African market surged by 44% to $750m.
Balfour Beatty lands $385m Miami hotel contract

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

Located at the intersection of 17th Street and Convention Center Drive, it will anchor the Miami Beach Convention Center District. The 996,00-sq-ft hotel will have 800 rooms, convention and meeting space and ground floor retail areas. It’s scheduled for completion in late 2027. At peak construction, the project will employ more than 500 workers. Balfour Beatty is also nearing completion of the $1.2bn Broward Convention Center & Hotel and expansion project.
Prices up, confidence down after 100 days of Trump 2.0

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

“Lumber and metals prices shot up in March, while contractors’ inboxes are bulging with ‘Dear Valued Customer’ letters announcing further increases for many products,” said Ken Simonson, chief economist at Associated General Contractors (AGC), in an 11 April note. “Rapid-fire changes in tariffs threaten to drive prices higher for many essential construction goods,” he added.
Japanese pumps to dewater underground power line between France and Spain

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

The overall €3.1bn transmission project is being carried out by the European “Inelfe” initiative – short for “Interconnexion Électrique France-Espagne”. A joint venture of the country’s grid operators, Red Eléctrica (Spain) and RTE (France), the project aims to increase Spain’s insufficient transmission connections to the rest of Europe, a vulnerability highlighted by yesterday’s blackouts in Spain and Portugal. The subsea line will have two, dual-cable links, each able to transmit 1GW.
Mace appoints Gary Sweeney to lead health and tech consultancy in Europe

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

He joins Mace after a spell as interim director of Turner & Townsend’s advanced manufacturing, industrial and logistics division in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Before that he was at ISG, where he led the firm’s “Hyperscale” business unit doing major programmes in automotive, aerospace, datacentre, pharmaceutical, battery and logistics. He has 30 years’ experience in manufacturing engineering. The appointment amalgamates a number of sectors under a single leadership structure.
Volvo joins group pushing for electric machinery standards

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

It was established by two Dutch associations, Emissionfree Network Infrastructure (ENI), and smart-charging federation ElaadNL. The idea is to attract others in the construction equipment value chain. Volvo CE signed up at bauma 2025. Komatsu is also a member. The goals are to foster pre-competitive collaboration among companies to scale up zero-emission equipment, establish design standards for big electric machines, and make a plan for continuing the group beyond this year.
World’s first low-carbon concrete rating system launched

2 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

It says the scorecard will rate products on a “clear and intuitive” eight-stage scale, from “AA” to “G”. The goal is to boost demand for low-carbon cement and concrete. The score for cement is based on kilograms of embodied carbon dioxide equivalent per tonne (KgCO2e/t). For concrete, it’s kilograms per cubic metre (KgCO2e/m3). The score is expressed as “Global Warming Potential” (GWP), calculated according to Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) standards.
Chinese executive arrested in wake of Bangkok collapse

3 weeks ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Rod Sweet

Forty-seven workers are now known to have died, and crews are trying to clear the building’s elevator shaft, where authorities believe the remains of 30 more are located. Officers of Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) apprehended Chuanling Zhang, described as a key shareholder of China Railway No.10, on Saturday at a hotel in Bangkok, The Nation reports.