Water

The Feast of the Rock Giants

The Agaro Dam, in Italy's Ossola Valley, stands as one of the symbols of Italian hydropower and renewable energy. Built in the 1930s at 1,600 meters above sea level, this gravity dam holds back its ow...

The Colossus of the Abyss

It is Italy's most ambitious offshore engineering project: Genoa's New Breakwater, approximately 6 kilometers long and reaching depths of up to 50 meters, is the deepest breakwater in Europe. Featurin...

From Great Lakes to Zimbabwe: 5 Lakes Restored Through Engineering and Infrastructure

From Lake Mead in Nevada to Loch Leven in Scotland, from Lake Kariba on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to the Great Lakes between Canada and the United States: through engineering and environm...

From Argentina to the Maldives: How Is Water Management Handled in Remote Areas?

From Buenos Aires to the Cook Islands, from Australia to Tristan da Cunha, and as far as the Maldives: in the most remote corners of the globe, water management and the supply of drinking water presen...

Desalination, Green Roofs, Underground Cities: Infrastructure for Climate Resilience

21st-century cities are entering a new climate era. Increasingly intense heatwaves, tropical nights, power outages, and urban heat islands are transforming metropolises into environments that are incr...

From Three Gorges Dam to Kansai Airport: Great Masterpieces of Civil Engineering

Five major infrastructure projects have redefined the boundaries of civil engineering: from the Panama Canal to China’s Three Gorges Dam, from Osaka Bay’s Kansai International Airport to the Hoover Da...

From Washington D.C. to Dubai: 5 Infrastructure Projects that Engage with Water

From the Anacostia River Tunnel in Washington D.C. to the dams and polders in the Netherlands, from the tidal energy plant in Brittany to the artificial island in Dubai: discover how hydraulic enginee...

From Himalayas to Andes: Infrastructure Built at the Extremes (and Where to Find It)

From the GERD in Ethiopia to the Karakoram Highway amongst the glaciers, from the Rogun Dam to Ushuaia International Airport: infrastructure in extreme environments arises from the challenge of transf...

The New Zealand Paradox: Rich in Water Resources, Yet at Risk of a Water Crisis

In New Zealand, one of the world’s most water-rich countries, urbanisation, intensive agriculture and climate change are turning water management into a strategic infrastructure challenge. Auckland...