This offshore liquefied natural gas import terminal in Santa Catarina, Brazil, began earlier this year to produce 15 million cu meters per day—half for local use—filling an energy security gap after Bolivia limited its supply to the region in 2022.
Alejandro Toledo was found guilty of accepting $35M in bribes from Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht for contracts to build the Interoceanic Highway in 2005.
After a tumultuous few years at the center of a national corruption scandal, Brazil-based Odebrecht is looking to move on. And despite ongoing investigations, the firm has continued to book work both in Brazil and abroad.
Odebrecht executives began the task of rebuilding the scandal-ridden Brazilian company’s reputation at its business and engineering conference in New Orleans last month.
The construction industry continues to study the multiyear buildup of the Rio Olympics as a costly and challenging engineering project that provides lessons for future cities hosting large programs such as the Summer Games.