Property & Buildings

WSP is pleased to announce that it has acquired BOD Arquitectura e Ingeniería, a 45-employee architecture and engineering firm based in Madrid, Spain. The addition of BOD will expand WSP’s Property & Buildings service offering, while boosting its visibility in Madrid and across Spain.

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has seen three major trends emerge as drivers of investment in Africa’s Commercial Property space.

The extraordinary technical challenges faced by WSP / Lievense during the renovation and expansion of Palais Het Loo, a 17^th century palace and one of the Netherlands’ most popular museums, included jacking up the listed palace buildings, a discontinuous ground water level, a basement constructed underwater and an immovable deadline.

At the junction of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers of Chongqing in southern China stands the recently topped out Raffles City, where you can visit the world’s highest skybridge – if you dare!

Many businesses operating in South Africa are cautiously optimistic for what is in store for the remainder of this year.

Congratulations to our colleagues from WSP Sweden, whose project, the Kiruna City Hall, won a European Steel Design Award of Merit at the European Steel Design Awards held in Brussels on 14 October 2019.

WSP in Africa are proud of their team’s involvement in the project to upgrade the Fourways Mall Promotions Court, which received the ASTPM Tubular Category award at the Southern African Institute of Steel Construction (SAISC) Steel Awards 2019.

WSP in Africa proudly acknowledge the contributions of the firm’s engineers to two winning projects in the Industrial Development and Overall Transformation categories of the 2019 SAPOA Property Development Awards for Innovative Excellence, as announced in June.

ICONHIC2019 aims to bring together stakeholders from different disciplines—engineers, financers, insurers, and policy makers—to exchange experiences, ideas and perspectives on building future infrastructure resilience.

Australia’s resources sector is in a production boom phase with new records for coal, iron ore, gold, base metals and LNG having been set in 2018.