On most mornings at Bibiani, the first hint that the mine is fully awake isn’t the light—it’s the sound. Haul trucks grind up the benches of the Main pit in low gear, engines working hard against the slope. The refurbished plant on the hill hums steadily. Just behind it, a new sulphide circuit—tanks, towers and steel—crowds into every metre of flat ground the engineers could find.

Ultra-high performance concrete has been in labs and specialty projects for three decades. What’s different now is where it’s turning up: on aging viaducts in Switzerland, a busy interstate crossing between Delaware and New Jersey, county bridges in Iowa and New Mexico, and a 100% UHPC superstructure in Michigan. Together, those projects show why many bridge owners now see UHPC as a practical tool for extending deck life—not just a science project.

Stand on the departures level of a new terminal, or in the atrium of a major hospital, and the engineering story usually points your eyes up to the roof. But for project directors and CFOs, one of the most important decisions sits under their feet: the floor slab.

 
As AI workloads explode, the world’s largest tech companies are no longer just grid customers—they are becoming power marketers, anchor tenants for multi-gigawatt generation, and, in some cases, de-facto utilities. For infrastructure CEOs, this isn’t a side story in Silicon Valley. It’s a structural shift in how generation, transmission and capital will be deployed over the next decade.

From social media to power marketing

Just before dawn in Western Australia’s Pilbara, more than a hundred 250-tonne haul trucks wake up with no one climbing a ladder. From a control room hundreds of kilometres away in Perth, a handful of supervisors watch icons move across a digital pit map as driverless trucks roll out, talk to each other over private LTE and begin shifting millions of tonnes of iron ore.

Scenes like this were a curiosity in 2008. Today, they are becoming routine – and they are quietly rewriting how mines are designed, powered and built.

Located at 94 Piccadilly, the historic Cambridge House is undergoing a transformative redevelopment scheduled for completion in late 2025. Managed by Auberge Resorts Collection and owned by Reuben Brothers, this Grade I-listed former royal residence and former In and Out Military Club site will become a luxury hotel featuring 102 rooms, a private members club, and an expansive double-floor spa inspired by Roman bathhouse traditions.

Set within the historic former U.S. Embassy building in Mayfair, the Chancery Rosewood London officially opened its doors in September 2025, marking a new chapter for this iconic mid-century modern landmark. Developed by Qatari Diar Europe LLP, this £1 billion project transformed the Grade II-listed 1960s structure, designed by acclaimed architect Eero Saarinen, into a premier luxury hotel destination featuring 144 all-suite accommodations.

Melbourne’s long-planned orbital road network is edging closer to completion as the North East Link progresses through its most visible phase — the excavation of Victoria’s longest road tunnels. The $26.1 billion program represents the state’s largest road investment to date, aimed at closing the long-identified gap between the M80 Ring Road at Greensborough and the Eastern Freeway at Bulleen.

Australia is no stranger to ambitious national projects. We’ve spanned deserts with rail, powered cities with hydro schemes, and helped build global prosperity from the ports of the Pilbara. But the infrastructure challenge now confronting the country does not look like a traditional megaproject. It is quieter. It is closer to home. And it underpins almost every part of our future growth. It is the challenge of building enough places for Australians to actually live.