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Swedish contractor Skanska has won two projects in the US: one to build a school in Texas and another to upgrade offices with Balfour Beatty...

South Korean automotive company Hyundai Motors has reached agreement with union leaders to build its first domestic factory in 30 years, and...

The state of Guanajuato in central Mexico is proposing the construction of a 144km double-track rail link between its major cities and has p...

Timber buildings up to 12 storeys in height were permitted in the Canadian province of Ontario from the first of this month, but a developer...

China’s top economic planning body has set a deadline of 2035 to build an “efficient, green, intelligent and safe” road system in the countr...

Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has been awarded a contract by Irish state agency Údarás na Gaeltachta to create a masterplan for...

Work on the Los Angeles Sixth Street Viaduct, also known as the Ribbon of Light, has been completed and officially opened to the travelling...

Wessels Rijssen, a subsidiary of Dutch contractor VolkerWessels, is to build a 200-unit rental development in Utrecht for real estate firm A...

Vietnamese prime minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked companies working on terminal three (T3) of Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi...

Spain’s competition authority, the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) has fined six construction companies more than €200m i...

The California High-Speed Rail Authority celebrated a milestone last week as the final pre-cast girders were placed on Construction Package...

The US construction industry added 13,000 jobs in June but would probably have added more had it not been for the shortage of available work...

Turner Construction has been awarded a $225m contract by the University of Kentucky to build a 450,000 sq ft health education building at it...

Work has been completed on Foster + Partners’ 300m-tall tower for the National Bank of Kuwait. The building in Kuwait City’s Sharq financial...

Ireland’s Louth County Council has invested in the country’s first “Pothole Pro” machine, made by JCB, in a bid to fix potholes permanently...

Chilean e-fuel company HIF Global, which is backed by German car-maker Porsche, has applied to build Australia’s first large-scale e-fuel pl...

A trial of 59 defendants accused of various crimes in relation to the 2018 collapse of the Morandi Bridge in the Italian city of Genoa, whic...

French engineer Alstom has signed a €387m contract with Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation to supply 156 Movia trains and 15 years of mai...

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has designed an installation of 55 stepping stones in northern Norway that are visible when the tide is low but...

UK-based contractor Broadway Construction Company has been chosen by the city government of Baghdad to build the first phase of a 240,000-ho...

Swedish utility Vattenfall is about to start filling with water a 45-metre-high storage tower in Berlin that will act as a giant kettle that...

A team led by Mexican cement company Cemex has built a 140 sq m house in Angola, central Africa. The structure was completed in 30 hours and...

Regulators have fast-tracked approval for Germany’s first liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal at the North Sea port of Wilhelmshaven, which wi...

An agency set up to promote the long-running idea of a tunnel under the Strait of Gibraltar says work will begin in 2030, according to repor...

Dutch company Royal Haskoning and Albanian consultant Abkons have announced plans for two projects: a seaport in Porto Romano, Albania and a...