Jubail 2 is considered by many to be the world's largest civil engineering project. It consists of an 83 km2 industrial development started in 2005 in the city of Jubail, 490 km northeast of Riyadh. The current population of Jubail is 380,000. The new development, when complete, is likely to double the size of the current city. Jubail was a fishing village until … [Read more...]
The busy ports of Dalian and Yantai are located on either side of the Bohai Sea, about 170 km (106 miles) apart. The driving time by road around the bay is about 16 hours. Engineers are planning the world's longest undersea tunnel to shuttle freight traffic between them. It would span the opening to the bay, similar to San Franscisco's Golden Gate Bridge. At 123 km … [Read more...]
Later this month the Al Maktoum International Airport in Dubai will begin serving scheduled passenger traffic. Al Maktoum is a central component of Dubai World Central, a new development about 12 km from Dubai's central economic district. Once completed, the airport will have a passenger capacity of 160 million people. For perspective, The Hartsfield-Jackson … [Read more...]
The Indian government is building the world's largest solar power plant in the northwestern state of Rajasthan. The project, called the Sambhar ultra-mega solar power project, will have a total power generation capacity of 4,000 MW. It will be spread out over 23,000 acres of land, which is 94 km2 or 36 mi2. This is the equivalent of 17,000 american football fields, or … [Read more...]
Nigeria's Eko-Atlantic is rapidly taking shape. Most of its 10 km2 land mass has been reclaimed from the atlantic ocean, and earth moving equipment is now moving upwards of 10,000 m3 per day. The "Great Wall of Lagos" is complete, a 3.5 km long berm that protects the development from the slow but steady sea erosion that plagues Nigeria's southern coastline. Eko … [Read more...]
The world's biggest dam is being planned in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Twice the size of the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world's largest, Inga 3 will produce 4,800 MW of electricity, and it is merely only phase 1 of the 40,000 MW Grand Inga hydropower development when fully completed. Set to cost $12 billion, the Inga 3 project will replace two smaller dams … [Read more...]
