African continent

The Zambia Lobito Railway: Opening a Route to the West

The Zambia Lobito Railway, among the most ambitious projects in southern Africa, is closer to becoming a reality following the recent selection of the preferred bidders for contracts to build its more...

From Ethiopia’s GERD to the Kariba Dam: Infrastructure Projects Changing Africa

Highways that cross vast territories, bridges that span great rivers, dams that are transforming the way energy is produced: from the Senqu Bridge in Lesotho to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in ...

Tunnelling Beneath Cairo: The New Metro Line Runs Close to the Giza Pyramids

Egyptian construction company Petrojet has joined forces with SELI Overseas – the Italian company within the Webuild Group specializin in mechanized excavation – to excavate a metro tunnel under the b...

From Abu Simbel to Forth Bridge: Infrastructure Listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Some of the most extraordinary infrastructure projects in history were born to solve concrete problems: crossing mountains, overcoming rivers, transporting water, or connecting seas. Today, bridges, r...

Africa Grows with Dams: From GERD to Congo’s Grand Inga Hydropower Project

Following the completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, Africa's largest hydropower project, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is turning its attention to the Grand Inga Hydrop...

From Bering Strait to Blue Nile: Infrastructure Projects Are Reshaping Geopolitics

From the Bering Strait tunnel, intended to link the United States and Russia, to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, large-scale infrastructures are becoming tools of geopolitical influen...

Senqu Bridge: Bridge over 1400 Meters High for Lesotho-South Africa Water Infrastructure

Located more than 1,400 metres above sea level in the mountainous kingdom of Lesotho, the recently inaugurated Senqu Bridge will serve as a unifier of sorts. Built by Webuild as part of the Lesotho...

5 Major Infrastructure Projects That Shaped Africa

Major infrastructure projects in Africa are driving the continent’s transformation by improving the transport system, increasing renewable energy production, and supporting economic development in a r...

From Abu Simbel Temples to Ulmer Münster, the 5 Toughest Construction Sites

From the rescue of the Abu Simbel Temples to Ulm Cathedral, from the great dams on the Nile to the Basilica de la Sagrada Família, discover the construction sites that challenged limits and geography,...