infrastruttura no. 33 As China rethinks the strategy underpinning its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the West has found an opening for advancing its own interests by also funding global infrastructure. Geopolitics and infrastructure assets remain tied closely at the hip during our moment of heightened post-pandemic global tensions over
infrastruttura no. 30 Contractor claims against their designers for quantity growth in standard design-build are once again in the news this summer. Part of the world's mega-project moment is a shift to more collaborative contracting models, including an increase in progressive design-build and even talk of alliance contracting models coming
Thanks to recent legislation like IIJA and the Inflation Reduction Act, might increased federal investment in US infrastructure also catalyze a dramatic increase in the private sector's ownership of public assets? A recent op/ed in the New York Times uses a Brookfield infrastructure fund's recent $2B investment in two
A bridge connecting mainland southern Italy to Sicily has been a long-elusive goal for Italian engineers - and not just due to the Bel Paese's febrile politics. In 2005, the Italian government awarded a turnkey contract to a WeBuild-led joint venture (at the time known as Impregilo S.p.A.
According to Lord Byron, "Venice sinks, like a seaweed, into whence she rose." And La Serenissima is indeed literally sinking at a rate of two millimeters annually (since 1950-1970 when groundwater pumping for a nearby port caused the city to sink by 5 inches). In my opinion, it's the world's