Megaprojects
Meta Unveils Petal Transoceanic Cable With Petabit Capacity
Meta on September 21, 2026, announced Petal, a transoceanic subsea cable system designed to deliver 1 petabit per second of capacity between the United States and France, with the cable expected to enter service in 2029. In its announcement, the…
Jacobs Wins Oklahoma City Wastewater Operations Contract
Jacobs has been selected by the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust (OCWUT) to provide operations and maintenance services for the city’s wastewater facilities and solids management program under a five-and-a-half-year contract, Jacobs announced on September 10, 2026. The work covers…
AECOM-Jacobs Venture Wins Dublin MetroLink Program Delivery Contract
Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) has formally awarded the Programme Delivery Partner Support Services contract for MetroLink to Jacobs AECOM, a joint venture of AECOM and Jacobs, appointing it delivery partner for the 19-kilometer Dublin metro line. The agency announced the…
AECOM Wins $4.5M Valley Water Contract for Pure Water Silicon Valley Design
AECOM said on September 3, 2026, that the Santa Clara Valley Water District (Valley Water) has selected it to provide professional design services for the Pure Water Silicon Valley Demonstration Facility Project in California, a project intended to advance direct…
Eaton Puts Over $242M Into Arkansas Plant to Double Enclosure Capacity
Eaton announced on September 2, 2026 that it will invest more than $242 million to build a new manufacturing facility in North Little Rock, Arkansas, expanding its U.S. production footprint for modular electrical enclosures. The company said the plant is…
AECOM Joins Warkworth–Te Hana Road Team as Design Partner
AECOM announced on August 31, 2026, that it has been appointed design partner for the Warkworth to Te Hana project in New Zealand, the first of three nationally significant road sections along the Northland Corridor Program, a planned 100-kilometer motorway…
AECOM Wins Environmental Advisory Role on Australia’s High Speed Rail
AECOM has been appointed Environmental Planning and Assessment Advisor for the Development Phase of the Australian Government’s Newcastle to Sydney High Speed Rail project, the company announced on August 25, 2026, working in partnership with lead partner bd infrastructure and…
Northern Lights: Europe’s First Cross-Border CO₂ Hub
As CO₂ concentrations increase in the atmosphere due to fossil fuel consumption, the effect on the planet’s climate might turn irreversible, even if no more oil, coal, or gas is ever again consumed tomorrow. And of course, we are very…
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Satellite Tech: Tracking & Reducing Methane Emissions
Tracking The Right Global Warming Metric When it comes to climate change induced by greenhouse gases, most of the public’s attention is on CO2, as this is by far the most durable emission, staying stable in the atmosphere and increasing…
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NASA SR-1 Freedom: Building The First Nuclear Spacecraft
Moving an object in space is very energy-consuming, even once a spacecraft has escaped the gravity well of a planet. This is in part because the distance between celestial objects is so vast. For example, if the distance from the…
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Artemis II Mission: NASA’s Launch and Space Program Reset
On April 1st, the Artemis II mission is launching with 4 astronauts to orbit the Moon for 10 days. It follows the Artemis I mission, which tested the SLS (Space Launch System) launcher and the Orion spacecraft, so it is…
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Helion Energy: Powering the OpenAI & Microsoft AI Race
Nuclear fusion could become the long-awaited perfect energy source: no carbon emission, unlimited fuel supply, not producing any significant pollution, and massively powerful. And contrary to classical nuclear power plants, using nuclear fission, it has zero risks of uncontrolled chain…
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NORI-D Deep-Sea Mining Project: Ready to Extract Battery Metals
Industrial civilization has an almost unlimited hunger for metals, limited only by their availability and the cost of extraction. This has been especially true for metals that have recently become important for high-tech applications like EVs, aerospace, semiconductors, etc. As…
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Nusantara: Indonesia’s New $35B Smart Capital
It is not uncommon for countries to want to relocate their capital in modern times, especially when there is a perception that the city currently used as the capital is poorly located, has too many problems, or concentrates already too…
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Revolution Wind: Northeast Offshore Wind Back On Track
The world is turning to renewables for power generation, at the same time as traditionally fossil-fuel-powered activities like transportation, heating, and heavy industries are electrifying. In the USA, a lot of the growth of renewable energy has been driven by…
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