Weekly Quiz: Where will Africa’s largest airport be built?

1) Architects and engineers have been appointed to advise on the design for Africa’s largest airport. Where will it be built?

• Abusera, Ethiopia
• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Casablanca, Morocco

2) A consortium of Chinese construction companies have won a competition to devise a masterplan for a major new city in Mongolia. What will it be called?

• The New Mongol Administrative Capital
• New Kharkhorum City
• New Yurt City

3) What is the name of a US$17bn rail project in Queensland, Australia, tenders for the first stage of which have just been released?

• The Elizabeth Line
• Kangaroo Choo Choo
• Direct Sunshine Coast Rail

4) Aecom will design two new bridges to be built by the Yonkers Contracting Company along the Bronx River Parkway. In what decade were the bridges they will replace built?

• The 1950s
• The 1850s
• The 1990s

5) The European Commission has opened an infringement procedure against Ireland, accusing it of failing to carry out market surveillance of construction products. It follows a problem with defects in what type of building product?

• Roof tiles
• Insulation
• Building blocks

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