Since the opening of Burj Khalifa, many countries proposed to build tall skyscrapers and one such tower was Jeddah Tower from Saudi Arabia. The construction also started with full force with foundation, and core structure is seen to be developing fast but from 2018 the work slows down and the construction came to a standstill. Such towers became a headache to the investors and government due to the heavy workforce and huge funding required. Thus many countries proposed skyscrapers that are viable to build and good for their interest. One such example is China's Shanghai Tower which is now the second tallest building but the occupancy is very less but then too they have a project such as Suzhou Zhongnan Center, the proposed the year 2021, and Wuhan Greenland Centre, completed in 2018.The Merdeka PNB 118 Tower, Malaysia, once completed will be the fifth tallest building in the world and the third tallest in Asia with a total height of630 meters (118 floors). The proposed date of completion of construction was in the year 2020 but postponed to 2022. The cost of the construction is RM 3.5 Billion, where 82 floors will be for office space, 18 floors for hotels and sky lobby each, 7 storey for shopping malls covering 900000 square feet. The building site is well connected and will be connected by Monorail Service which will connect to the rest of the LRT network.Such a tall structure also brings environmental problems but this structure is Triple Gren Building Platinum Accreditation by the local bodies of Malaysia including Green Building Index (GBI). The building is designed by the same architecture firm Fender Katsalidis Architects. Also, the technical association is provided by Halfen Moment Malaysia.
Libya's Great Man Made River: The Great Man-Made River in Libya is one of the most ambitious Civil Engineering Project in history of mankind. In the year 1953, the Libya Government found out not only vast oil reserves but also vast quantity of fresh water locked under the strata, most of the water was trapped around 7000-30000 years ago which is divided in 4 different basins. The first basin is named Kufra basin which is neat Egypt Border which covers almost 35000 sq kilometer which is quite deep around 2000 m deep. The other basin is in Sirte Basin which cover 10000 sq kilometer, third in Murzuk Basin and the last in Jabal Fezzan Basin covering 4800 sq kilometers area. The GMR project will be used to transfer water to North of the country to provide water for irrigation purpose for more than 6 million people. This will be a changing point for Libya and the Colonel Muammar Gaddafi called it the Eighth Wonder of World. The work started in 1984 of the project and estimated to be
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