Priya Menon
Infrastructure Contributor
Priya Menon covers tunneling, ports, rail corridors, and the procurement choices that determine whether large public works become durable assets or permanent disputes.
Articles by Priya Menon
What If Boeing's Passenger Jets Were Forced Offline?
Boeing controls 40% of global commercial aircraft. Here's what happens to the world if regulators pull the plug on its entire fleet.
The Interoceanic Corridor: Mexico's Attempt at a Panama Canal Rival
Inside Mexico's Interoceanic Corridor across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a centuries-old dream revived to rival the Panama Canal with rail, ports, industry
The Mosul Dam: Iraq's Catastrophe Waiting to Happen
Iraq's Mosul Dam sits on soluble gypsum that's been dissolving for decades. If it fails, a 45-meter wave could reach Baghdad and kill up to a million
The Rockefeller Empire: The Dynasty That Changed America
From a con-artist patriarch to Standard Oil and a fortune that outlasted the Gilded Age, how the Rockefellers built and kept a dynasty
Montreal's Mirabel Airport: A Disaster From Start to Finish
How Montreal's Mirabel Airport went from the world's largest airport to a $500 million failure that lost its passengers and was finally demolished
Montenegro's Road to Nowhere: The Chinese-Built Highway That Nearly Bankrupted a Nation
How a billion-dollar Chinese-financed highway plunged one of Europe's smallest countries into catastrophic debt — and still ended at a village of fewer than 100 people.
Project Pulse
The engineering briefing that explains why nothing gets built on time — or on budget.