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Australian construction activity contracted in June as the country joined other world markets buffeted by material and labour shortages and...

Dutch architect 3XN and Swiss designer Itten + Brechbühl have unveiled their plan for an extension to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technol...

Stuttgart construction company Züblin is to expand its presence in northern Germany with the addition of offices in the city of Kiel and the...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will set up a fund to support the short-term financial position of Ukraine and pay for long-term rebuildi...

Swedish contractor Skanska has signed a €101m contract with a subsidiary of publicly owned City Transport Ltd, to build a tram and bus depot...

Dutch architect KCAP has been commissioned by Katwijk City Council to design a town on the former Valkenburg Naval Air Base in the west of t...

Aecom has been awarded a contract to design systems to remove so-called “forever chemicals” – a phrase used to describe dangerous per- and p...

The initial phase of Egypt’s first electrified light rail system, built and part-financed by Chinese firms, began operating on Saturday afte...

A team of four construction students from Tongji University, China has won the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) Global Student Chall...

The government of Laos has commissioned a feasibility study into the construction of an electrified rail link with Vietnam, the latter’s sta...

The government of Mexico has announced a winner in the tender to build an 8km two-lane road bridge over a lagoon near the resort city of Can...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has called for a doubling of nuclear generating capacity around the world by 2050 to help countries mo...

The US dominates the global league table of most expensive markets for construction amid labour shortages, supply chain disruption and net-z...

The government of the Netherlands said this week that it would invest €750m over the next 10 years to develop a national hydrogen transport...

Norwegian battery-maker Freyr is planning to build a €1.6bn Arctic gigafactory with the help of €400m in guarantees and loans from Eksfin, N...

The International Finance Corporation is to partner with developer Egyptians for Health Care Services to support the construction and operat...

New Zealand’s transport agency has appointed a consortium to build a two-lane toll road in North Auckland.The post Vinci, Aurecon join Auck...

The City of Paris has chosen a design from a team led by Brussels-based international architect Bureau Bas Smets (BBS) to reimagine the area...

Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II has inaugurated the new Refugee Museum of Denmark, known as Flugt, in Oksbøl, at the site of the biggest refuge...

South Korea’s GS Engineering & Construction has won a contract worth $1.9bn to build, own and operate a desalination plant in Oman, The Kore...

Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has applied to build a 5.5GW wind farm, the world’s largest single such development, between the isla...

Danish utility Ørsted has teamed up with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to test the effect of 3D-printed reefs on marine ecosystems in...

UK-headquartered contractor Balfour Beatty yesterday said its 50:50 joint venture, Gammon, had secured two big projects together worth HK...

Texas A&M University has received a grant of $3.74m from the US Department of Energy to print buildings with concrete made from hemp....

The Environment Agency (EA) will use Mott MacDonald’s Moata Intelligent Content as its smart object library, which will be made available to...