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People walk past a booth of China Development Bank during the 2022 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing. Source: Reuters/Tingshu Wang

China Development Bank releases $255m for Nigeria rail projectMacDonald Dzirutwe

Source: Supplied. Michael K. Obeng, chief executive officer and founder of Miko Pharma.

Miko Pharma drives $50m investment push to set up pharmaceutical plant in Ghana

29 Feb 2024

XCMG equipment at the Dangote site. Source: Supplied

XCMG helps Nigeria's Dangote refinery get up to speed

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Edmund Wessels, Anatoli Kirigwajjo win 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Edmund Wessels, Anatoli Kirigwajjo win 2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

7 Jul 2023

7 killed in building collapse in Côte d'Ivoire

7 killed in building collapse in Côte d'Ivoire

Coulibaly Media and Luc Gnago 3 Jul 2023

ExxonMobil president Karen McKee named 2023 ICIS CEO of the Year

ExxonMobil president Karen McKee named 2023 ICIS CEO of the Year

21 Jun 2023

2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation finalists announced

2023 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation finalists announced

12 Jun 2023

Continued weak growth forecast for construction industry in 2023 - GlobalData

Continued weak growth forecast for construction industry in 2023 - GlobalData

10 May 2023

Buildings left standing in Turkey offer design guidance for future earthquake-resilient construction

Buildings left standing in Turkey offer design guidance for future earthquake-resilient construction

Osman Ozbulut 5 Apr 2023

2023 BIM Africa Innovation Awards nominations now open

2023 BIM Africa Innovation Awards nominations now open

9 Feb 2023

Is greenwashing a threat to sustainable construction?

Is greenwashing a threat to sustainable construction?

Bunny Bala 3 Feb 2023

Building on new risks: construction in the age of greening

Building on new risks: construction in the age of greening

Robert Ter Morshuizen 5 Dec 2022

5 ways drones will change the way buildings are designed

5 ways drones will change the way buildings are designed

Paul Cureton and Ole B. Jensen 2 Dec 2022

Osmotic Engineering Group director receives Fidic 2022 Future Leaders Award

Osmotic Engineering Group director receives Fidic 2022 Future Leaders Award

20 Oct 2022

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World's tallest timber apartment complex to be built in Zanzibar

4 Oct 2022

A rescue member works on the debris at the site of a collapsed building in Ikoyi, Lagos. 2021. Reuters/Temilade Adelaja

5 steps Nigeria must take to stop buildings collapsing in Lagos

Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola 19 Sep 2022

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Turner & Townsend releases International Construction Market Survey for 2022

13 Jul 2022

Rescue workers search for survivors and bodies in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, 7 March 2022. Reuters/Luc Gnago

6 die as Ivory Coast apartment block collapses

Loucoumane Coulibaly and Ange Aboa 8 Mar 2022

3D printed layers of a wall element. Mehdi Chougan, Author provided

Future cities could be 3D printed - using concrete made with recycled glass

Seyed Ghaffar, Mehdi Chougan, Pawel Sikora 2 Mar 2022

People enjoy the water while container ships park near the El Ain El Sokhna port before entering the Suez Canal, Egypt, 25 September 2020. Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Suez Canal Economic Zone signs $2.6bn methanol plant contract

Nayera Abdallah 22 Dec 2021

L-R: CEO Dr Frank Igboamalu, and business development director Ronnie Khoza, Osmotic Engineering Group

#StartupStory: Osmotic Engineering Group on driving infrastructure development in Africa

Sindy Peters 9 Nov 2021

A rescue member works on the debris as search and rescue efforts continue at the site of a collapsed building in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, 2 November 2021. Reuters/Temilade Adelaja

Nigeria races to find survivors as 22 die in building collapse

Lanre Ola 3 Nov 2021

People gather at the site of a collapsed 21-storey building in Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria, 1 November 2021. Reuters/Temilade Adelaja

6 die, scores feared missing in Nigeria after collapse of high-rise

Chijioke Ohuocha 2 Nov 2021

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Cities and climate change: why low-rise buildings are the future - not skyscrapers

Ruth Saint and Francesco Pomponi 28 Oct 2021

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Aecom launches 2021/22 Africa Property & Construction Cost Guide

12 Oct 2021

Building collapses in Lagos are a frequent occurence. US UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images

Building collapses are all too common in Lagos. Here's why

Olasunkanmi Habeeb Okunola 23 Aug 2021

Noël N'guessan, winner of the Royal Academy of Engineering's 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

Côte d'Ivoire's Noël N'guessan wins 2021 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation

9 Jul 2021

How women are locked out of Nigeria's construction industry

How women are locked out of Nigeria's construction industry

Richard Jimoh, Amina Nna Adamu, Luqman Oyekunle Oyewobi and Paul A. Bajere 12 Apr 2021

People walking next to traffic in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city.
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People living in African urban settings do a lot of walking: but their cities aren't walkable

Seth Asare Okyere, Daniel Oviedo, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Mariajose Nieto & Michihiro Kita 29 Mar 2021

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