The Islands Are Calling

Dubai is known for ambitious engineering projects, and in December this United Arab Emirates’ hotspot will see the start of one of its most interesting and unusual projects: the World Islands. A series of manmade islands will be constructed, roughly to reflect the world map. Some amendments have been made–France and Spain, for example, will be built as one country known as “Aquitania”–but by and large the project remains quite…large. Geosynthetic water containment and dewatering technologies are expected to be used.