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Germany has begun work on a wind turbine that will be the tallest structure in the country after the TV tower in Berlin. The 365m-high turbi...

The Qatar Electricity and Water Authority (Kahramaa) has chosen South Korean contractor Samsung C&T Construction to build a $3.7bn combined...

German architect Büro Ole Scheeren has unveiled its design for the Urban Glen project in the city of Hangzhou, about 70km southeast of Shang...

French train-maker Alstom has signed a five-year, €76m contract with Saudi Arabia to improve its east–west freight corridor. Under the agree...

Dutch architect KCAP has won an international competition to design two residential towers in the Slovakian capital of Bratislava. The talle...

A team made up of Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Italian practice Andrea Tabocchini Architecture has redesigned a...

The Belarusian Energy Ministry is to carry out a feasibility study probing whether to add a third reactor to its Astrovets nuclear station o...

Eight thousand people have been left homeless in Manila after a major fire ripped through a densely packed slum area on Sunday, CNN reports....

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank, will lend $301m to a developer in Mexico to build “affordable, green ho...

Germany’s Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) has estimated that Germany could add up to 48GW of photovoltaic panels to its road netwo...

Tanzania is to receive 264 freight wagons to improve cargo flows on its booming standard gauge railway (SGR).The post Tanzania buys Chinese...

Samia Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s president, has confirmed that 20 people died in the collapse of a building in the busy Kariakoo district in...

In response to an unusual spate of mass killings in China, Beijing has launched a three-month campaign to pressure the country’s indebted lo...

Two Swedish companies, financial services provider Vinga Group and circular industry specialist WA3RM, have joined forces to develop three c...

China has completed its East-route natural gas pipeline, which runs for 5,111km from the Russian border to Shanghai, seven months ahead of s...

Lishui Airport in China’s eastern Zhejiang Province, designed by MAD Architects, is due to open by the end of the year. The airport is locat...

UK architect Foster + Partners has unveiled its masterplan for Bilaj Al Jazayer Beach on Bahrain’s southwest coast. The mixed-use district h...

Russia and Zimbabwe have begun talks about the African country sending people to Russia to work in construction. Russia faces severe labour...

The city government of Hangzhou in eastern China has switched on the first centrifuge at the world’s most powerful gravity simulation machin...

Consulting engineer Sweco is helping Sweden’s most northerly city move 3km to the east to make more room for its iron ore mine. The Stockhol...

French contractor Bouygues has been selected by British property company Segro to redevelop Les Gobelins railway station in southwestern Par...

A joint venture between Tutor Perini and O&G Industries has been awarded a $1.2bn contract to design and build a 4km-long elevated railway a...

Iranian and Russian officials have discussed a plan to build a rail link between Parsabad, a city on Iran’s border with Azerbaijan, and the...

Japanese authorities are considering commissioning a Chinese transport system to take visitors up Mount Fuji, The Japan Times reports. Yaman...

A team made up of North American engineers AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs and Westinghouse has landed a 10-year contract worth $2.3bn to operate a nuc...