A rail line in Kenya linking Nairobi, the capital, with the port city of Mombasa is said to be the country’s largest infrastructure project since it gained independence in 1963.
A signature 270-meter-long curved cable-stayed bridge is soaring over a major road carrying 50,000 vehicles a day in Sydney—the centerpiece of a $6.1-billion Metro Northwest project that will link the city’s northwestern suburbs with its center.
Builders, suppliers and subcontractors from 20 countries made this seaport expansion in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan, a very international construction project.
Designed by the late Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, the 62-story One Thousand Museum Residences project in Miami features a structural exoskeleton comprised of glass-fiber-reinforced concrete that simulates an undulating piece of sculpture.
When upgrading a critical pipeline link to bring natural gas from the Shah Deniz gas field in the Caspian Sea westward to Turkey and Europe, a joint venture of Bechtel and ENKA had to bring high-level engineering to a remote site in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia.