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JUST IN: 🇨🇦 Canada lists Vancouver's Roberts Bank Terminal 2 as a project of national interest. The C$5.9 billion terminal would add 2.4 million containers of capacity a year.
Container cranes at the Roberts Bank port in Delta, British Columbia, beside the site of Roberts Bank Terminal 2. Photo: Ben Nelms/CBC.

ALT Container cranes at the Roberts Bank port in Delta, British Columbia, beside the site of Roberts Bank Terminal 2. Photo: Ben Nelms/CBC.

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JUST IN: 🇲🇾 Malaysia opens the RM298.98 million Batang Paloh Bridge in Sarawak on 30 October, ending a ferry crossing. The bridge is 1.7 km long.
Aerial view of the Batang Paloh Bridge crossing the river between Pulau Bruit and Tanjung Manis, Sarawak. Photo: Sarawak Public Works Department (JKR).

ALT Aerial view of the Batang Paloh Bridge crossing the river between Pulau Bruit and Tanjung Manis, Sarawak. Photo: Sarawak Public Works Department (JKR).

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Near the top of Taipei 101 hangs a 728-ton steel ball. Its job: swing so the tower doesn't. When gusts push the building, the ball sways to offset it. In Typhoon Soudelor, Aug 2015, it swung over 3 ft. The world's largest tuned mass damper. Would you stand beside it?
Looking down on Taipei 101's giant gold-coloured tuned mass damper: a huge sphere of stacked steel plates hung on thick cables inside a round atrium near the top of the tower, with hydraulic dampers below it. Photo: Armand du Plessis / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

ALT Looking down on Taipei 101's giant gold-coloured tuned mass damper: a huge sphere of stacked steel plates hung on thick cables inside a round atrium near the top of the tower, with hydraulic dampers below it. Photo: Armand du Plessis / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0).

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France didn't lift the Millau Viaduct's road into the sky. It pushed it there. Crews built the deck on the plateaus at each end. Hydraulics on every pier lifted it and nudged it forward. Over and over, until the halves met on May 28, 2004. Nearly 40,000 tons, slid into place.
The white cable-stayed Millau Viaduct stretching across the green Tarn valley in southern France, its masts rising above low cloud, with red-roofed houses of Creissels in the foreground under a deep blue sky. Photo: Stefan Krause / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

ALT The white cable-stayed Millau Viaduct stretching across the green Tarn valley in southern France, its masts rising above low cloud, with red-roofed houses of Creissels in the foreground under a deep blue sky. Photo: Stefan Krause / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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Stand under this dome and you'd swear it floats. It's 591 ft across. It weighs over 8,000 tons. And it rests on just 4 piers. The roof is 7,850 steel and aluminum stars, layered so the desert sun falls through in specks. Louvre Abu Dhabi, opened 2017.
Visitors sit on stone steps by the sea water under the Louvre Abu Dhabi's vast latticed dome, with specks of daylight shining through its layered star pattern above white gallery blocks. Photo: Boubloub / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

ALT Visitors sit on stone steps by the sea water under the Louvre Abu Dhabi's vast latticed dome, with specks of daylight shining through its layered star pattern above white gallery blocks. Photo: Boubloub / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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JUST IN: 🇲🇾 Malaysia breaks ground on a 200 MW floating solar plant at Chereh Dam, backed by 580 million ringgit in financing. It is due to start operating in 2028.
Masdar, Citaglobal and TIZA Global representatives at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Chereh Dam floating solar project in Pahang, Malaysia. Photo: Masdar.

ALT Masdar, Citaglobal and TIZA Global representatives at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Chereh Dam floating solar project in Pahang, Malaysia. Photo: Masdar.

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 AEP picks Jacobs and WSP to deliver its $37 billion, five-year transmission buildout across 11 states.
Steel lattice towers of an AEP 765-kV transmission line crossing hills. Photo: American Electric Power.

ALT Steel lattice towers of an AEP 765-kV transmission line crossing hills. Photo: American Electric Power.

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Hoover Dam has 582 miles of steel pipe buried inside it. Here's why: Setting concrete gets hot. Poured in one go, engineers worked out, the dam would take 125 years to cool, and crack. So they built it in blocks, 5 ft at a time, with ice-cold water running through the pipes.
Black-and-white photo from 1934 looking down into Black Canyon at Hoover Dam under construction, rising as a grid of separate concrete blocks and timber forms between the canyon walls. Photo: Bureau of Reclamation (via Wikimedia Commons).

ALT Black-and-white photo from 1934 looking down into Black Canyon at Hoover Dam under construction, rising as a grid of separate concrete blocks and timber forms between the canyon walls. Photo: Bureau of Reclamation (via Wikimedia Commons).

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JUST IN: 🇬🇧 The UK commits a further £200 million to rebuild Leeds station, lifting total funding to £303 million. Works are due by 2030.
The concourse of Leeds City railway station. Photo: Hullian111, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

ALT The concourse of Leeds City railway station. Photo: Hullian111, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.

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Japan built an airport on a man-made island. Then the island kept sinking. By 1990: down 27 ft. Engineers had planned for 19. The fix: the terminal stands on 900 columns, each on a hydraulic jack. Crews slide iron plates under and lift. Kansai: the airport you can jack up.
Aerial view of Kansai International Airport: two flat man-made islands with runways and the long terminal, surrounded by the blue water of Osaka Bay, Japan. Photo: Tdk / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

ALT Aerial view of Kansai International Airport: two flat man-made islands with runways and the long terminal, surrounded by the blue water of Osaka Bay, Japan. Photo: Tdk / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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To save the Leaning Tower of Pisa, engineers dug out the ground under it. Not under the low side. Under the high side. They drilled out 1,340 cubic feet of soil, and the tower eased back. Shut in 1990. Reopened Dec 2001. 17.7 inches straighter. Still leaning, on purpose.
The white marble Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, tilting to the right against a blue sky with white clouds. Photo: Saffron Blaze / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

ALT The white marble Leaning Tower of Pisa, Italy, tilting to the right against a blue sky with white clouds. Photo: Saffron Blaze / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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JUST IN: 🇬🇧 The UK approves National Grid's Sea Link, a 2 GW power cable running 138 km between Kent and Suffolk, mostly under the sea.
Aerial view of Pegwell Bay on the Kent coast, near where the Sea Link cable comes ashore. Photo: Kent Online.

ALT Aerial view of Pegwell Bay on the Kent coast, near where the Sea Link cable comes ashore. Photo: Kent Online.

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JUST IN: 🇦🇹 The 55 km Brenner Base Tunnel between Austria and Italy now opens in 2034, with its cost forecast raised to €11.7 billion.
Excavator in the Brenner Base Tunnel exploratory bore at its breakthrough, with EU, Austrian and Italian flags on the rock face. Photo: BBT SE via Railway Gazette.

ALT Excavator in the Brenner Base Tunnel exploratory bore at its breakthrough, with EU, Austrian and Italian flags on the rock face. Photo: BBT SE via Railway Gazette.

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By 2033, you'll drive around a roundabout under the sea. Norway is blasting Rogfast, set to be the world's longest and deepest undersea road tunnel: - 16.6 miles long - nearly 1,300 ft below sea level - 2 roundabouts under the fjord Stavanger to Bergen gets 40 minutes shorter.
A worker in hi-vis rides an asphalt paver under two bright work lights, laying a fresh road surface inside the raw rock of the Rogfast undersea tunnel in Norway. Photo: Norwegian Public Roads Administration.

ALT A worker in hi-vis rides an asphalt paver under two bright work lights, laying a fresh road surface inside the raw rock of the Rogfast undersea tunnel in Norway. Photo: Norwegian Public Roads Administration.

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Crossing Lima from Ate to the port of Callao takes over 2 hours. Peru has been building the fix since 2014. On Oct 22, the last tunnel boring machine reached its final station. Peru's first underground metro is fully dug: - about 22 miles - 35 stations Target trip: 45 minutes.
Three tunnel workers in hard hats hold up the Peruvian flag through the mud-covered cutterhead of tunnel boring machine Micaela as it breaks into Carmen de la Legua station, Lima Metro, Oct 22, 2026. Photo: MTC Peru / Andina.

ALT Three tunnel workers in hard hats hold up the Peruvian flag through the mud-covered cutterhead of tunnel boring machine Micaela as it breaks into Carmen de la Legua station, Lima Metro, Oct 22, 2026. Photo: MTC Peru / Andina.

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The world's best new skyscraper has brakes. Its steel frame stays stiff in everyday wind. In a big earthquake, clamped steel plates slide and turn the shaking into heat. Like a car braking. Guangzhou's 669 ft Sany IROOTECH tower won Best Tall Building Worldwide on Oct 28.
The two Sany IROOTECH Headquarters towers in Guangzhou, China, wrapped in a white hexagonal steel exoskeleton with green terraces every few floors, under a blue sky. Photo: Dave Burk / SOM.

ALT The two Sany IROOTECH Headquarters towers in Guangzhou, China, wrapped in a white hexagonal steel exoskeleton with green terraces every few floors, under a blue sky. Photo: Dave Burk / SOM.

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Germany built a wind turbine taller than the Eiffel Tower. 1,197 ft. The world's tallest, per its builder. No crane could reach the top, so it rose like a telescope: - a lattice tower outside - an inner tower winched up through it Goal: double the energy from higher winds.
Drone view of GICON's high-altitude wind turbine in Schipkau, eastern Germany: a very tall steel lattice tower with red bands and a turbine on top, a yellow crawler crane at its base, towering over dozens of ordinary wind turbines and pine forest. Photo: GICON.

ALT Drone view of GICON's high-altitude wind turbine in Schipkau, eastern Germany: a very tall steel lattice tower with red bands and a turbine on top, a yellow crawler crane at its base, towering over dozens of ordinary wind turbines and pine forest. Photo: GICON.

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You can now fly nonstop from Copenhagen to the edge of Greenland's ice fjord. Ilulissat's new airport opened Oct 29. Old runway: 2,770 ft. New runway: 7,200 ft, long enough for jets. It's the last of 3 new airports Greenland opened in under 2 years.
The new Ilulissat airport terminal in Greenland: a long, angular building clad in faceted grey metal panels and glass, with 'ILULISSAT' in large letters, snow drifts along the front and a pale blue Arctic sky. Photo: Greenland Airports.

ALT The new Ilulissat airport terminal in Greenland: a long, angular building clad in faceted grey metal panels and glass, with 'ILULISSAT' in large letters, snow drifts along the front and a pale blue Arctic sky. Photo: Greenland Airports.

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Mountain lions near Los Angeles have a 10-lane problem. The 101 Freeway splits their habitat in two. The fix: the world's largest wildlife crossing. - 210 ft long - about 174 ft wide - topped with soil and thousands of native plants Finish date: Dec 2.
Cars drive under the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, a wide concrete bridge over US 101 in Agoura Hills, California, seen under construction in April 2025 with 'Annenberg Wildlife Crossing' lettered on its side and green hills behind. Photo: AragonChristopherR17Z / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

ALT Cars drive under the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing, a wide concrete bridge over US 101 in Agoura Hills, California, seen under construction in April 2025 with 'Annenberg Wildlife Crossing' lettered on its side and green hills behind. Photo: AragonChristopherR17Z / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Every one of the 73 turbines at Taiwan's Hai Long wind farm is now up and making power. They stand 28 to 43 miles out in the Taiwan Strait. - 1 GW of capacity - built in 3 phases - enough for 1 million+ homes Last step: final permits, then full operation in 2027.
A large offshore wind turbine in the foreground with dozens more turbines on yellow jacket foundations spread across calm blue sea at golden hour at the Hai Long offshore wind farm in the Taiwan Strait. Photo: Northland Power.

ALT A large offshore wind turbine in the foreground with dozens more turbines on yellow jacket foundations spread across calm blue sea at golden hour at the Hai Long offshore wind farm in the Taiwan Strait. Photo: Northland Power.

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