The idea sounds like science fiction: spend $1 trillion to redraw the hydrological map of America and turn floodwater and ...

Bottom Line: Globalization and widespread cooperation between international firms have ushered in an era of sprawling initiatives known as megaprojects—expensive, complex, and highly scrutinized ...

Want to build the world's biggest airport, or the world's longest train tunnel? You'll want to take advice to avoid the pitfalls of previous planners. Megaprojects like these, which tend to have costs ...

A long-delayed MTA Megaproject known as East Side Access -- which promises to bring 160,000 daily LIRR customers into Grand Central -- will cost $11.1 billion instead of the prior estimate of $10.2 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I share how to unlock value for projects and businesses. You may not think that you, as a project professional, have much in ...

Under threat: the European Southern Observatory’s flagship Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert is home to the Very Large Telescope (courtesy: G.Hüdepohl/ESO) The darkest, clearest skies ...

A global construction and engineering firm is proposing a megaproject that’s about twice the size of the Hudson Yards development, in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Crain’s reports. AECOM will unveil plans for ...

Satellite images reveal a 1,000-acre military infrastructure project near Beijing that reshapes the strategic balance in Asia and raises concerns among Western powers. Recent satellite imagery has ...

The Massachusetts Turnpike. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation plans to ground Interstate 90 — which splits the neighborhoods of Allston and Brighton — and create new pedestrian pathways ...

It’s been a little more than four years since Hudson Yards got its groundbreaking, and in that time, the 28-acre megaproject has transformed the far west side of Manhattan. What was once just rail ...