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The UK Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyers have replaced the Type 42 destroyers, which were in service since 1978. Six Type 45 destroyers were contracted. The requirement was for 12 vessels of the class, but the UK Ministry of Defence announced...

The F-22P or Zulfiquar (English: Sword) class frigate is a 2,500t multi-mission, conventionally powered frigate built for the Pakistan Navy.

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport in France laid the first stone for the construction of Future Terminal 1 in December 2014. The new terminal will increase the airport's capacity to 15 million passengers by 2020 when compared with the current capacity of ten million.

Atlanta Field is a post-salt oil field located 185km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in Block BS-4 of Santos Basin, at a water depth of 1,550m. First production from the field is expected in mid-2016.

Kaohsiung Metro is a mass rapid transit system in Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second-largest city. In an effort to reduce the heavy reliance on road transport within its city centre, the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation (KRTC) has developed a 42.7km network of two lines, which is the first stage of a much larger system.

Glasgow Subway in Scotland is currently undergoing a modernisation programme that began in July 2011. It is the first full-scale upgrade of the metro system since the renovations between 1977 and 1980. The programme includes the refurbishment of all the stations on the network and the introduction of a new smartcard ticketing system.

Recognised as the most punctual airport in the UK, London City Airport (LCY) has received consent to extend its aviation capacity under a £200m ($310m) expansion programme. The airport submitted a planning application to the London Borough of Newham for the City Airport Development Programme (CADP) to expand its current infrastructure, in September 2013.

The European Investment Bank (EIB), the long-term lending arm of the European Union, has a long history of investing in critical airport infrastructure projects, often in situations where air transit has become a critical humanitarian need.

Yuzhny International Airport is a new airport to be constructed 29km away from Rostov-on-Don city in southern Russia. It will be located 4km away from Grushevskaya village in the Aksai district of the Rostov region.

Located 35km north of Saudi Arabia's capital city Riyadh, King Khaled International Airport was designed by the US-based architecture-engineering firm Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK).When the airport opened in 1983, it became the largest...

Vietnam's National Assembly's Economic Committee approved the construction of the Long Thanh International Airport (LTIA) in October 2014. The new airport is proposed to be built in Long Thanh, Dong Nai Province, located in Southern Vietnam, approximately 45km north-east of Ho Chi Minh City.

Halifax Stanfield International Airport is the seventh busiest airport in Canada. It is located in Nova Scotia, Canada, and was opened in 1960. In February 2007, it was renamed as Halifax Robert L Stanfield International Airport. It is owned by...

The UK's London Heathrow Airport opened its newly redeveloped Terminal 2 in June 2014, marking the completion of an £11bn ($13.4bn) investment programme initiated in 2003. The programme aimed at the modernisation and expansion of the airport that has been in operation since 1955.

Rodenhuize power station is an 180MW biomass-fuelled plant located in Ghent, Belgium. The plant was converted from a coal-fired unit called Rodenhuize 4 into a 100% biomass unit.

China has signalled plans to invest $16bn into its electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, a move that could stimulate massive growth in EV sales and help the country cut carbon emissions. We take a look at the project and find out what impact an EV revolution could have on the power grid.

The ATR 72 ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) is a multi-role, special mission aircraft based on ATR 72-600 modern regional turboprop aircraft from Alenia Aermacchi. The aircraft is designed to perform anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare (ASuW) missions. It can also be deployed in maritime patrol, search and identification of submarines and search and rescue (SAR) operations.

Editor's Note: Author David Bill is a designer and educator who consulted with The Third Teacher+ on the Remake Your Class project highlighted in the videos below. The tips in this post go along with the companion video. We are excited by the simplicity (and low price tag!) of this great redesign.