Articles Tagged with ''2021 Global Best Projects''

To deliver the AIRA Residences project in Kuala Lumpur, builders had to overcome the differing challenges of transforming an existing 17-story, 64-unit residential structure built more than 40 years ago into a near replica of the sparkling, brand-new 18-story “twin” they were constructing next to it.

Soil contamination prompted construction of a 7-km-long extension of Cairo Metro’s Line 3 on a viaduct instead of below ground, as first planned.

Overcoming pandemic challenges, the team behind the largest highway improvement project on Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago completed work on time, below budget and with no reported COVID-19 cases in its workforce.

Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, is called Africa’s Singapore for its beautiful scenery that attracts international tourists.

Elements from abroad were critical to the $1.6-billion conversion of the James A. Farley Post Office building into the 255,000-sq-ft Train Hall at Penn Station.

Almost 20 years after a destructive civil war, the capital of Angola still suffers from obsolete and degraded infrastructure.

Built on ruins of a synagogue originally erected nearly 670 years ago, one of the oldest synagogues in the Middle East was bombed by the French in 1800 before being rebuilt 50 years later.

Just 53% of the population of Bangladesh has electricity. The Bibiyana South Combined-Cycle Power Plant, a single-shaft configuration fueled by natural gas, is part of the South Asian nation’s Power System Master Plan to help achieve electrification in the largely rural northeast.

This 1967 natural gas power plant in the Russian Republic of Tartarstan and the city of Nizhnekamsk needed to deliver 495-MW capacity to customers and reduce its emissions.

The $1.4-billion electromechanical portion of the Kwanza River dam project includes a power plant with an installed capacity of 2,070 MW.