Building a power plant in Iraq brings its own specific challenges, but having a global pandemic at the same time was a tall order for the project team on the Samawa Combined Cycle Power Plant.

Camouflaging the ever-present security features was a constant at the 16-hectare mental health campus, built on time and below budget primarily to treat an incarcerated population but also to serve the community.

Grangegorman University, the campus project at Technological University Dublin, is part of a major urban development program initiated by the Irish government in 2010. The facilities will be used by 10,000 incoming students as well as staff.

The Islamic Cultural Center, located in the governmental district in the country’s new administrative capital, was established as a world-class venue to spread the teachings of moderate and non-extremist Islamic religion.

The joint venture team of ATAL Environmental Engineering, Degremont and China Harbour Engineering more than doubled the size of the San Wai Sewage Treatment Plant in a rural area just outside of Hong Kong to accommodate the city’s expanding development. 

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.

For this project in Mucombeze, Shook’s eight workers—teaming up with SAM Ministries—constructed teacher dormitories at the 600-student primary school, where students walk as much as 10 miles to get to classes. 

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.