Development And Growth

Riyadh Goes for Sustainable Mobility: The Metro’s Western Station is Now Operating

Riyadh has added another piece to its urban mobility revolution with the opening of Western Station, the final major station on the Orange Line of the metro system built by the Webuild Group. Spanning...

The New Panama Canal Ten Years On: Record Freight Shipping Volumes and Revenues

Ten years after its inauguration, the New Panama Canal continues to represent one of the most important infrastructure works on the planet. Having entered into service in 2016, the new Panama Canal lo...

From Paris Metro to Hudson Tunnel Project: 5 Railway Tunnels the World Depends On

From the Paris metro to the Hudson Tunnel Project, via the Brenner Tunnel and the Gotthard Base Tunnel: these underground rail networks, though invisible, play a strategic role in supporting mobility ...

From Los Angeles Metro to Rome’s Line C: The Most Extreme Metro Construction Sites

Beneath the world's major cities, a silent challenge is being fought. A battle against water, against time, against history. Building new metro systems requires crossing aquifers, unstable ground, arc...

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 California’s I-10 to Norway’s E39: 5 Symbols of Road Safety

From the Milan–Naples highway to the I-10 in Los Angeles, from the Pedemontana Lombarda to the fjords along the E39 in Norway, right through to the Singapore Expressway: five road infrastructure proje...

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...

$50 Trillion for Bridges, High-Speed Rail, Energy and Other Infrastructure by 2050

In its latest Global Infrastructure Outlook, PwC forecasts that $151.1 trillion will be invested worldwide by 2050 to address major challenges posed by climate change, urbanisation, and new global meg...

From Naples-Afragola to King’s Cross: The Stations of the Future Are Intermodal Hubs

From simple transit points to true intermodal hubs capable of integrating high-speed rail, metro systems, buses, airports, and urban services. Major railway stations are changing their face across the...