A recovery in arrivals lands first on buildings – mothballed camps, deferred maintenance and airport capacity.
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Sandton Angles: The Wealthiest Square Mile in Africa, in Pictures
Sandton, dubbed as the wealthiest square mile in Africa, is a different world from many African cities, and if you pay close attention, you can capture the detail that went in and still goes into making it work - the infrastructure. In several spontaneous shots, Oscar...
Fifteen Months on Arid Ground: Building Omburu’s 20 MW Solar Field
A solar farm is a construction project before it is a power station. Omburu was 40 hectares of tracking panels raised in dry Erongo.
Building a Floating Mine: The Engineering Behind the 177-Metre Benguela Gem
A diamond mine that sails is a construction project in three countries, and every metre of it has to keep working at sea.
Maersk Voyager at 3,000 Metres: The Engineering Behind the Venus Discovery
Venus was proven by one of the most demanding drilling jobs on earth. The find is the easy part; building on it is the discipline.
Building at the Coast: The Construction Bill Behind Walvis Bay’s Hydrogen Pilot
Behind the clean-energy headline sits an unglamorous build – a solar field, an electrolyser hall and a refuelling point in a corrosive coastal wind.
Onshore of the Discovery: The Ports and Bases Graff-1 Now Asks Namibia to Build
A well 270 kilometres out to sea is run from a quay onshore. That quay is the real construction story.
Building the Sperrgebiet: The Ports, Water and Grid Behind Hyphen’s Bid
The romance is hydrogen; the reality is a port, a desalination plant and a power grid in an empty park.
Beds Built for Foreigners: Namibia’s Lodges Turn to a Domestic Market to Fill Them
A decade of lodge-building assumed overseas guests. The campaign asks that fixed stock to survive on locals.