Megaprojects
Watchlist
- Brightline West: Los Angeles (Rancho Cucamonga station) - Las Vegas 2027
- Lima airport new terminal: 2025
- Eviation Alice: 2027
- Tren Maya: 2023/2024
Skyscrapers
Skyscrapers with a height >500m. No more >500m building are being actively built. (China banned buildings higher than 500m, so there will a lot of 499m buildings in the future...)
| Rank | Name | City | Height (ms) | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Burj Khalifa | Dubai, UAE | 828 | 2010 |
| 2 | Merdeka 118 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | 678.9 | 2022 |
| 3 | Shanghai Tower | Shanghai, China | 632 | 2015 |
| 4 | Abraj Al-Bait Clock Tower | Mecca, Saudi Arabia | 601 | 2012 |
| 5 | Ping An International Finance Centre | Shenzhen, China | 599.1 | 2017 |
| 6 | Lotte World Tower | Seoul, South Korea | 554.5 | 2017 |
| 7 | One World Trade Center | NYC, US | 541.3 | 2014 |
| 8 | Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre | Guangzhou, China | 530 | 2016 |
| 9 | Tianjin CTF Finance Centre | Tianjin, China | 530 | 2019 |
| 10 | China Zun | Beijing, China | 527.7 | 2018 |
| 11 | Taipei 101 | Taipei | 508 | 2004 |
Energy
- Australia-Asia Power Link (2027): include the world's largest solar plant, the world's largest battery, and the world's longest submarine power cable. Export power from Australia to Singapore and Indonesia.
- Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: about 45 km east of the border with Sudan. The largest hydroelectric power plant in Africa. Max capacity 6.35 GW.
Dams along Jinsha River / Yangtze River:
| Name | Chinese | Completion | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wudongde Dam | 乌东德 | 2021 | 10,200 MW |
| Baihetan Dam | 白鹤滩 | 2022 | 16,000 MW |
| Xiluodu Dam | 向家坝 | 2014 | 6,448 MW |
| Xiangjiaba Dam | 溪洛渡 | 2014 | 13,860 MW |
| Three Gorges Dam | 三峡大坝 | 2012 | 22,500 MW |
Cities
Planned new Capitals
- Egypt Administrative Capital
- Abuja: capital of Nigeria. Didn't exist until the 1980s, capital since 1991
- Nusantara: Indonesia's new capital. On the island of Borneo, to be formed as a new province splitting from East Kalimantan. nusa (lit. 'islands') + antara (lit. 'outer') 'the outer islands' (from Java island perspective)
- Brasília: founded in 1960. Moved the capital from Rio de Janeiro in 1960.
- Canberra: Australia.
Planned / Smart Cities
- Kilamba New City: near Luanda, Angola
- Forest city in Malaysia
- Linear city, Saudi
- Lusail, Qatar: a host city of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. 23 km north of Doha.
- Masdar City: a futuristic city in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Sabah al-Ahmad Sea City in Kuwait
- The International Business District (IBD) in Songdo, South Korea
- $35 billion district — currently a work-in-progress about the size of downtown Boston — was designed to eliminate the need for cars.
- A project that began in 2002, the area prioritizes mass transit, like buses, subways, and bikes, instead of road traffic, according to Stan Gale, the chairman of Gale International, the developer behind the IBD.
Rail
High Speed Rail
Read more: High-speed Rail
SGR in Africa
Read more: SGR in Africa
Mega Airports
- China:
- Hong Kong Airport (
HKG) expansion (2024): 3rd runway and new concourse. - Guangzhou Baiyun Airport (
CAN) expansion (2025)
- Hong Kong Airport (
- South Korea:
- Incheon Airport (
ICN): Phase 4 to be completed by 2025. Expansion of Terminal 2, 4th runway.s
- Incheon Airport (
- Vietnam:
- Ho Chi Minh City: Long Thanh International Airport (2025)
- Philippines:
- New Manila International Airport (2026)
- US:
LAXrennovation, people moverEWRTerminal One (2022)LGAretrofit (2022)JFKredevelopmentSFOredevelopment
- Mexico:
- Felipe Ángeles International Airport: the second airport serving the Mexico City metropolitan area.
- Singapore:
- Changi Airport (
SIN) Terminal 5
- Changi Airport (
Sea Ports
- Lamu Port, Kenya.
- Bagamoyo Port, Tanzania. Planned be the largest port in East Africa when completed. Maybe cancelled.
Gwadar
Gwadar Port, a deep water seaport in Pakistan, the port was officially leased to China for 43 years, until 2059. (http://buff.ly/2uBXkh5)
Miami Cruise Port
Yangshan
Economic Corridor
- China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
Road
- Boston: Big Dig https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig
- Seattle: Alaskan Viaduct Replacement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Route_99_tunnel
Canal
- Panama Canal
- Max ship size is called "Panamax"
- Expansion finished in 2016. Max ship size "Neopanamax"
- Ships that do not fall within the Panamax-sizes are called post-Panamax or super-Panamax.
- Suez Canal
- Height is limited by the Suez Canal Bridge.
- the canal has no locks.
- Suezmax dimensions are greater than both Panamax and New Panamax
- New Suez Canal finished in 2016, increasing the capacity of the Suez Canal from 49 to 97 ships a day.
| Panamax | Neopanamax | Suezmax | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tonnage | 52,500 DWT | 120,000 DWT | 160,000 DWT |
| Length | 289.56 m | 366 m | 400 m |
| Beam | 32.31 m | 51.25 m | 77.5 m |
| Height | 57.91 m | 57.91 m | 68 m |
| Draft | 12.04 m | 15.2 m | 20.1 m |
| Capacity | 5,000 TEU | 14,000 TEU | |
| Opened | 1914 | 2016 |
- Istanbul Canal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Canal
- Nicaragua Canal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_Canal
- Thai Canal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_Canal
Science Projects
FAST(Tianyan)
FAST: Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope. Or 天眼. The world's largest filled-aperture radio telescope. http://buff.ly/2uCd2bV
Arecibo
Arecibo Observatory, built in 1963, the largest single-aperture telescope before 2016. Who took the throne? (Map:http://buff.ly/2uChPtY)
LIGO
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. This is the one in Livingston, near New Orleans. http://buff.ly/2uCoZ1s
The other LIGO Observatory in Hanford, WA. http://buff.ly/2uC4pOq
