A $505bn global bridge construction pipeline, but fewer easy wins
The global bridge construction pipeline still appears robust. GlobalData estimates its value at $504.8bn, spanning both stand-alone bridges and wider…
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Thom Atkinson
WCN's editor-in-chief
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$1.8tn hospitality construction pipeline enters a more volatile age
International travel has regained momentum, but this is not a simple return to the old cycle. Figures cited in GlobalData’s…
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Industrial construction pipeline faces a reality check on politics, power and delivery
Industrial construction has become one of the clearest expressions of economic strategy. What once looked like a fairly standard response…
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Data centres are construction’s next battleground – if they can get built
Data centre construction have quietly become one of the most important forms of infrastructure in the modern economy. They underpin…
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Thirsty cities, ageing pipes and desalination’s rise – water’s quiet construction boom
For years, water scarcity and associated infrastructure sat comfortably in the ‘future problem’ drawer, filed somewhere between melting ice caps…
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Education construction is a $283.5bn opportunity. Delivering it will be harder
Education construction has become one of the clearest ways governments try to turn policy into something tangible. Classrooms, labs and…
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Office construction’s next act: the pipeline is back, but the product has changed
For much of the post-pandemic period, the office sector has been treated as construction’s awkward problem child. Hybrid work cast…
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GCC projects are still moving – but the real test may be what happens next
If you expected diggers to stop digging across the Gulf after hostilities began on 28 February, that hasn’t happened. Not…
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Global construction heads into 2026 split, squeezed and surprisingly selective
Global construction outlook 2026. Credit: vectorfusionart/Shutterstock The global construction outlook for 2026 isn’t just cooling off. It’s reshuffling the deck.…