18 Biggest MEGA PROJECTS in The World.
These are the 18 most audacious engineering projects currently reshaping our planet: A 🧵
1. Forest City (Malaysia)
- $100 billion luxury city project
- Planned for 700,000 residents
- Currently largely uninhabited (only a few thousand residents)
- Apartment prices rose from $170,000 to $1.14 million
- Built on artificial islands near Singapore
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2. The Line (Saudi Arabia)
- $725 billion linear city project
- 110 miles long, 1,600 ft tall mirrored buildings
- Planned for 9 million residents
- Zero-carbon city with high-speed underground transport
- Construction began in 2022
3. Tesla Gigafactories
- Largest facility in Reno, Nevada (15 million sq ft when complete)
- Additional factories in New York, Texas, Shanghai, and Berlin
- Run on renewable energy
- Part of the plan for 100 gigafactories worldwide
- Nevada facility currently 30% complete
4. Jubail Industrial City (Saudi Arabia)
- World's largest industrial city
- Jubail 2 expansion doubles the original size
- Houses 120,000 residents
- $22 billion total investment
- Completion expected by 2024
5. Lusail City (Qatar)
- $45 billion new city development
- Built for 2022 World Cup
- Will house 450,000 people
- Features world's largest water park (Aquatar)
- Includes iconic Lusail Stadium
6. Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
- $5 billion hydroelectric dam project
- Largest hydropower dam in Africa
- Built on Blue Nile River
- Source of regional tension
- Aims to provide electricity to Ethiopia
7. Hinkley Point C (UK)
- £25 billion nuclear power plant
- Will power 6 million homes
- Twin reactor facility
- 3,260 megawatt capacity
- Delayed by COVID-19
8. South-North Water Transfer Project (China)
- $62 billion water diversion project
- Will transfer 44.8 billion cubic meters annually
- Links China's four main rivers
- Three major canal routes
- 50-year construction timeline
9. Petronas Towers (Malaysia)
- Twin skyscrapers standing 1,483 ft tall
- Cost: $1.6 billion - World's tallest twin towers
- Features the world's highest two-story bridge between the 41st-42nd floors
- Postmodern Islamic architecture by César Pelli
10. Marina Bay Sands (Singapore)
- $6.8 billion luxury casino resort
- Features 2,500-room hotel, convention center, mall, museum
- The Casino has 500 tables and 1,600 slot machines
- Iconic SkyPark with 1,100 ft skyway and infinity pool
- World's most expensive standalone resort
11. Solar Great Wall'
This will Power Beijing by 2030
Inner Mongolia is launching the ambitious "Solar GreatWall" project, spanning 400km and 5km wide.
Aims to Provide energy to Beijing while helping combat desertification and protect the Yellow River.
12. NEOM
The $1.5 trillion project isn't projected to be complete until at least 2045.
This Megacity Neom is currently using 20% of all the steel in the world.
13. Dangote Petroleum Refinery in Nigeria
This $19 Billion Project is the largest refinery on the continent, it has the capacity to produce 650,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
14. New Nile Delta
Egypt is building the world’s largest artificial river costing $9.7BN. which will transform 9,200 square kilometers of desert into a new Nile Delta, helping feed its exploding population.
15. Singapore's $20B Tuas Mega Port
The future of automated shipping. Will handle 65M containers yearly, making it Earth's largest container port.
Uses AI-driven cranes and autonomous vehicles. When complete in 2040, it'll be twice Monaco's size.
16. Dubai's Al Maktoum Airport
The $33B future king of the skies. At 56 sq miles, it'll handle 260M passengers yearly—more than Heathrow & JFK combined.
Five runways, six terminals, and a capacity for 100 A380s. Will be world's largest airport when complete in 2027.
17. Malaysia's $10.5B Melaka Gateway
A bold dream of 4 artificial islands spanning 1,366 acres. Set to host Southeast Asia's largest cruise terminal, theme parks, and a maritime hub.
Partnership with Chinese firms to create 145,000 jobs. Completion: 2025.
18. Dholera Solar Power Plant in India
One of the biggest renewable solar power plants in the world, is the Dholera Solar Power Plant in Gujarat in India, with a surface area of 11 square kilometres and a 700 MW capacity.
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