The first major infrastructure project to be built in Libya in nearly nine years, this 671-MW power plant in Tripoli faced very strict security requirements, international political restrictions and COVID-19 protocols.
Water processing facility for Iraq’s large West Qurna oil field improves treatment and reuse of produced water during oil drilling to avoid untreated release and enhance oil recovery, says team. Key challenges included the harsh desert climate, as well as unexploded ordnance and toxic gases in former war zone.
Hanoi’s Ecopark Daesung International School brought together a global team in the midst of a pandemic to construct a modern educational center inspired by a European modernist tradition that is rooted in the city’s Old Quarter.
Built to maximize daylight with minimal heat gain, the New College of Law at Qatar University features a 20-m x 50-m skylight made of low-E glass, with extensive use of low-E fritted glass on the exterior.
This building’s two-wing design reflects the classic planes it houses. The central fuselage area contains a freestanding cross-laminated-timber staircase in the form of a doubly curved spiral.
More than 100,000 artifacts all focused on the history of a civilization that began in Egypt more than 5,000 years ago have come home to the Grand Egyptian Museum, but construction of the 484,000-sq-ft structure reads more like a tale of ardor from the Old Kingdom.
The sleek cable-stayed crossing on the Adriatic coast provides a vital link for Croatia, connecting its popular Dubrovnik region by road to the rest of the country for the first time in 300 years.
Positioned within Manda Bay along the Kenyan coastline, the project’s strategic location at the intersection of major shipping routes is expected to boost regional trade and economic growth.
The increase of the Nassau Cruise Port’s capacity to 30,000 passengers per day from 20,000 was accomplished without compromising the integrity of the region’s delicate ecology.