Ukraine invasion may have long-lasting impacts on materials and other aspects of project work, construction economist Anirban Basu told an owners' group on April 1.
A global nuclear energy watchdog and the financier of the $2.8B program to cover the Chernobyl site's damaged reactor raised concern March 10 of power loss safety impacts, with worry also of a monitoring system cutoff at the still operating Zaporizhizhia plant—as both remain in Russian control.
Equipment giant Caterpillar, design giant WSP and others announce they will detach, while more are ‘closely monitoring’ the situation overseas as it directly affects projects, clients and personnel.
UPDATE: Russians now occupy Zaporizhzhia faciity, but fire caused by shelling is out with no reactor damage or elevated radioactivity as yet, although power output remains reduced, Ukraine officials said, in latest big assault on the country's infrastructure from Putin military invasion.