Work on an impressive array of projects from all around the world restarted and has already given us some fantastic images.

Here鈥檚 a round-up of some of the best images taken of international construction projects so far this year:

Giant construction vessel leaves port

(Credit: John Fatkin/Cover Images)

Offshore Construction Vessel Aeolus, owned by international marine contractor Van Oord, departs port at Newcastle in the USA on 10 January.

Aeolus was purpose-built to construct offshore wind parks and entered service in 2014. Its crane can lift 1,600 tonnes and it has an advanced jacking system. Four giant legs, each measuring 85 metres and weighing 1280 tonnes, allow Aeolus to be jacked up and work in waters up to 45 metres deep.

Night installation of huge artworks

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Workers using two large cranes positioned a large sculpture in the centre of the roundabout at U.S. 41 and 14th St. in Sarasota, Florida, USA. Poly鈥� created by artist Hou de Sousa, is part of the City of Sarasota Public Art Program and funded by a city ordinance that requires developers to contribute one-half of one percent of construction costs to the program.

120 beams craned in for high-speed railway鈥檚 concrete box

(Image: HS2)

Construction of a 14,500-tonne box structure designed to take the UK鈥檚 new high-speed HS2 railway under the A46 Kenilworth Bypass in Warwickshire is progressing, following the successful installation of 120 gigantic beams.

The concrete beams, ranging between 13 metres and 24 metres in length, were craned into place to form part of the structure鈥檚 top over 14 days.

Due for completion later this year, the huge box is currently being built on land next to a section of the A46 rather than constructing it beneath the carriageway itself 鈥� avoiding the need for up to two years of traffic management measures.

HS2, National Highways, and contractor Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) have started preparing to push the box into place on a guiding raft using a jacking mechanism, designed by specialist civil and structural engineering company Freyssinet. The box will move at 2.5 metres per hour for a total distance of 64 metres.

Piling and excavations on Saudi鈥檚 The Line

(Image courtesy of Giles Pendleton)

Excavation and piling work continues on The Line in Saudi Arabia. Chief operating officer of The Line, Giles Pendleton, highlighted how the marina, which would link the linear city to the Gulf of Aqaba, is getting deeper and wider. If fully constructed, The Line would stretch 170km and house up to 9 million people, although the first phase is much shorter, at just 3km. The mirrored structure will rise 500m above sea level but will be just 200m wide.

Modular space launch tower takes shape

(Image courtesy of Bechtel)

US-based construction contractor Bechtel has overseen the lifting into place of the first module for a new launch tower at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, using a CC8800 Demag crane. The lifting and placing of Tower Module 4 of Mobile Launcher 2 was completed using the rig and set process. The remaining tower modules, which will be stacked successively on top of one another in the coming months. At their full height, the tower modules will be nearly 38 storeys tall.

Underwater excavator concept

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A Komatsu employee standing in front of a concept excavator explains the company鈥檚 vision for underwater construction of the future to visitors at the CES 2025 show in Las Vegas, USA.