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Chinese car maker Great Wall Motors plans to build a big electric vehicle plant in Hungary, media there have been speculating. They believe...

The government of Nigeria this week said it is planning to build a 1,000km highway between the coastal town of Badagry and the city of Sokot...

New York firm Steven Holl Architects has won a design competition for Expo Albania, a convention centre and hotel in Tirana. The design for...

Canada consulting engineer Stantec has acquired UK rival Hydrock for an undisclosed sum. The deal will boost Stantec’s UK workforce by over...

Contractors have finished laying track on the remaining Serbian section of the new, China-backed north-south railway between the Serbian cap...

American football team the Chicago Bears has announced a $4.2bn stadium, to be designed by Kansas City firm Manica Architecture. The develop...

A consortium led by Spanish contractor Obrascón Huarte Lain (OHLA) has won a €96m contract to build a section of Seville’s metro third line....

Latest statistics from the Japanese government show the number of vacant homes stood at a record 8.99 million as of October 2023, or 13.8% o...

A worker on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Germany and Denmark has died after being struck on the head by an excavator shovel on Monday afte...

South Korean aerospace and technology company Hanwha Systems has broken ground on a 11,500-sq-m satellite factory on Jeju Island about 100km...

Police in Florida have arrested 16 men in a sting operation designed to detect contractors trading illegally. The sting was carried out in M...

Ten companies in the construction sector have formed an alliance to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.   The Community of Sustainable E...

Work has been completed on the Vertikal Nydalen, a mixed-use development that will act as the “town square” for north Oslo’s Nydalen neighbo...

A town in Japan has decided to put up a large mesh screen behind a local convenience store to block the view of Mount Fuji behind it because...

Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane Construction has won a $110m design-bid-build project in Hampton City, Virginia, to complete the “Newport News...

Norwegian energy company Equinor has chosen Skanska for a $861m project to turn the 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York into...

Ground has been broken on the Jeddah Opera House, designed by Danish architect Henning Larsen for a site on the shores of the Red Sea. As we...

AtkinsRéalis, formerly SNC-Lavalin, has opened its new $20m technology centre in Richland, Washington State. It’s intended to develop innova...

Dubai has started building the world’s largest-capacity airport terminal complex at Al Maktoum International, the emirate’s prime minister,...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has unveiled Foster + Partners’ design for a 487m-tall office tower in Manhattan, set to be the second talles...

Thailand is considering building the world’s tallest building in Bangkok, Thai prime minister Srettha Thavisin said on his official Twitter/...

Swedish builder Peab has won a $300m contract to build the New Bodø Airport in Norway’s Arctic Circle from state airport operator Avinor. Pe...

Dubai developer Select Group is building what it claims will be the world’s tallest residential tower, at 517m, in the Dubai Marina district...

China Railway Tunnel Group (CRTG) says it used “Eight Intelligent Systems” to build China’s deepest and highest-water-pressure tunnel under...

Nigeria plans to spend $2bn on a 700km coastal highway between the commercial capital of Lagos and the port of Calabar near its border with...