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New Zealand’s Christchurch City Council last week bit the bullet and agreed a fixed price with contractors Besix Watpac for a long-planned,...

A design by American architects Ennead and Kahler Slater has been selected for a 200,000 sq ft extension of the Milwaukee Public Museum in t...

The Grand, a Frank Gehry-designed development that includes two towers, has opened in downtown Los Angeles. The taller of the towers will ha...

LTG Infra, the Lithuanian Railways subsidiary overseeing the Rail Baltica project in that country, has recruited Italian company Rizzani de...

Vinci, with Dragados Offshore and Siemens Energy, has won a “high triple digit million euro contract” to design and build two offshore windf...

SNC-Lavalin’s Candu Energy has won a contract worth some C$64m to conduct design and engineering services for the Unit 1 Candu reactor at th...

Melbourne contractor McConnell Dowell has won a contract to design and build the New Bridgewater Bridge in the Australian island state of Ta...

France’s Vinci and its Portuguese subsidiary ANA have landed a 40-year contract to run the seven airports in Cape Verde, a country of 10 vol...

Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane has won a $223m design-and-build contract to improve the I-275/I-4 highway interchange in Tampa, Florida. The F...

A $1bn investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will be given to 85 US airports to improve infrastructure. The fundin...

The government of South Korea has announced plans to help construction companies to win overseas contracts to the value of $50bn a year, the...

Canada’s SNC-Lavalin has been awarded an $8m contract to provide programme management and design-criteria professional services at Florida’s...

Morocco is planning to launch a high-speed rail project linking the capital Rabat with the city of Fez, about 200km to the east, Morocco Wor...

The Philippine Department of Transportation (DOTr) is reconsidering Chinese loans for three railway projects after Beijing failed to act on...

China’s banking regulator has urged the country’s banks to lend more to distressed property developers as a mortgage repayment boycott sprea...

Korean retailers Lotte and Shinsegae are planning to capitalise on a fast-growing taste for whisky among spirits-loving Koreans by building...

London-based architect Aedas has revealed its masterplan for a retail complex in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in Jiangnan Province, about 50...

Billed as a new landmark for Amsterdam, the “Sluishuis” residential building has been completed in the new IJburg neighbourhood on IJmeer la...

US modular housing start-up Vantem is planning to build 15 factories in the US to produce affordable and energy-efficient homes following a...

The government of Canada has signed a memorandum of understanding with a Belgian technology company to build a large-scale battery materials...

French civil engineer Eiffiage has expanded its presence in the Netherlands by acquiring majority stakes in two Dutch companies. Kropman, th...

The Irish cabinet has approved plans for the country’s first metro, a 19.4km line with 16 stations running between the town of Swords, north...

Four people who used to be managers at Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) have been ordered to pay a combined $97bn for losses suffered by...

A Bechtel company has been selected by the US Department of Energy to manage and operate the country’s only deep underground repository for...

The first phase of construction has been completed on “One Green Mile”, a project intended to transform neglected spaces below Mumbai’s Sena...