Global Construction Review

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Joe Quirke

Creed has been with Caterpillar for 28 years and succeeds James Umpleby III who will stand down after eight years in the role and almost 45 years with the company. Creed joined Caterpillar in 1997 and has held the position of chief financial officer and group president of energy and transportation. Creed said: “For 100 years, our incredible people have been the foundation of Caterpillar’s success.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Joe Quirke

Built over 100 years ago, the church stopped holding services in 2023. Its listed historic features will be preserved, and a swimming pool will be added into the nave. The pool’s floor can go up and down to give different depths. Raised all the way for social events, it will hold a layer of water shallow enough to create the illusion of walking on water, while reflecting the church’s interior. Changing rooms will be added, and a cafe at the back, separated by a glass wall.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | Joe Quirke

One of the main aims of the work is to make the building better able to resist earthquakes. And one of the main challenges will be to carry out the renovation without interrupting worship at the mosque. Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, Türkiye’s culture and tourism minister, said the dome’s exterior would be temporarily covered with steel to protect against the weather and shield the interior mosaics. Lead coatings would be removed and repaired.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The facility was to have been sited in a former paper mill in the town. International Recycling Group (IRG) said the tariffs imposed by President Trump would have increased the cost of the plant’s equipment. There was also doubt about whether a $192m loan from the Environmental Protection Agency would go ahead following a temporary freeze on federal funding commitments issued by the Department of Energy’s Loan Programmes Office.

1 week ago | globalconstructionreview.com | David Rogers

The public-private deal will turn a 140km single-lane road into a dual carriageway linking Nairobi to the Rift Valley city of Nakuru and Mau Summit. It was signed in Paris in 2020 by Uhuru Kenyatta, the president at the time, with a team that also contained finance company Meridiam and Vinci Concessions. The Vinci team were to have designed, financed, built, operated and maintained the highway under a 30-year concession, recovering its investment through tolls.