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At a length of about 60 km, the first phase of this highway project to connect Cameroon’s two largest cities, Yaoundé and Douala, has taken just over seven years to reach completion.

The team that built new seaplane facilities at Velana International Airport in the Maldives overcame pandemic travel restrictions, worker shortages and supply-chain disruptions to build the world’s largest seaplane terminal and support system.

Considering that iron ore is one of Australia’s largest sources of export revenue, it was critical to replace deteriorating dolphin wharf structures at one of Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s biggest export facilities on time.

The new bridge stretches across the Yangtze River in Nanjing, China. The 10.33-km project includes a 4.14-km bridge, the 1.75-km Jiajiang Tunnel and 4.4 km of other roadway sections with three lanes in both directions.

The fast-growing city of Zhengzhou, a major transportation hub in the heart of China, was in need of an additional elevated expressway to increase traffic capacity to 18 lanes from 10 lanes on the fourth ring transportation corridor.

Built at the crossroads of major railways and roadways in Cairo, the Adly Mansour Transportation Hub provides a modern link for the city’s heavily used rail lines and bus routes.

Despite a contract duration of nearly five years, the project team delivered this two-way, four-lane expressway that spans 151 km, or 93 miles, with a 25.5-m-wide roadbed from Rongjiang Town to Lijiang City in China, six months ahead of schedule.

Update: House passes WRDA-DOD package, sending it to Senate.

Special projects are built from good decisions, and the Canal Lachine cable stayed bridge—the symbolic centerpiece of the $1.3-billion Turcot Interchange reconstruction project in Montreal—is such a project.