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A team led by US engineers Aecom and Jacobs has won Amtrak’s first ever “delivery partner” contract, which will tackle a $6bn upgrade of a r...

Foster + Partners has won a competition to modernise the Television City studio complex in Los Angeles, where programmes such as American Id...

Irish builder Sisk has been named construction manager for a €330m drugs factory in County Kerry, Ireland, for Japan’s Astellas Pharma. Aste...

Aecom has won a five-year contract to provide environmental services for all Nasa facilities in the US. Nasa is short for the National Aeron...

Singapore’s iconic Marina Bay Sands is seeking planning permission to build a fourth tower and a 15,000-seat entertainment arena. The compan...

Spanish green energy company Solarig will spend €780m on a plant for making aviation fuel from agricultural waste in northeast Spain. When c...

Bulgaria’s national rail company will build a railway in the Black Sea city of Burgas linking Burgas Airport to the city’s central railway s...

A 525-sq-m extension to the world’s oldest ski museum, designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta, has opened to the public. Oslo’s Holmenkoll...

Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a masterplan for a 365,000 sq m seafront park on the site of a former oil refinery. The masterplan...

The Statue of Liberty–Ellis Island Foundation is to spend $100m on the refurbishment and extension of a museum that recalls the history of m...

China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) has begun work on a 575km railway through the Sahara desert, between the Algerian iron ore min...

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has agreed to increase its investment in its Arizona site by 60%, from $41bn to $65bn, and to begi...

China and Brazil last week signed a 30-year franchise agreement for a new, 1,468km high-voltage transmission line to bring renewable power f...

Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also...

Cimic Group company UGL has won a A$110m contract in joint venture with fellow Australian builder Adco to build new railcar maintenance plan...

Swedish contractor Skanska has signed a contract with the transport department of Washington State to replace the Portage Bay Bridge in Seat...

A consortium of large Spanish firms – Ferrovial, Acciona and Sacyr – has been selected to develop the Peripheral Ring Road in Lima, Peru as...

Bangladesh Railway (BR) has cancelled a rail upgrade scheme in the northeast of the country after talks with a Chinese contractor that dragg...

Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has won a contract from Gasunie to assess the feasibility of an offshore hydrogen network in the D...

The government of Iraq has announced that designs for the $2.5bn Baghdad Metro have been completed, agency Iraqi News reports. According to...

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix plans to invest almost $4bn in an advanced packaging, fabrication, and R&D facility for AI chips at Purdue U...

New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro has revealed its expansion of The Broad contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles, which i...

Central Japan Railway (JR Central) said on Friday that it had abandoned its plan to complete an ultra-high-speed railway between Tokyo and N...

The southern Norwegian coastal town of Kristiansand is about to open a gallery in a converted grain silo. Kunstsilo Nordica, designed by Bar...

The World Bank, through its International Development Association, has approved a $200m loan to fund improvements on one of Tanazania’s two...