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Engineers have begun test-drilling for the Salvador-Itaparica road bridge in Bahia state, Brazil. It comes five years after parties agreed a...

A Chinese aerospace group developing hyperloop-style ultra-fast rail travel says it has set a new speed record at its 2km-long test tunnel i...

Construction work has been completed on the Petrocelli Surgical Pavilion, a $560m, 288,000 sq ft tower built by Skanska at the North Shore U...

Construction machinery maker Doosan Bobcat donated €800,00 last year to help small businesses in Turkey get going again after violent earthq...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to build two data centres near Jackson, Mississippi. Together, the projects will cost $10bn, m...

Italian green energy company NatPower is planning to invest €100m in setting up green hydrogen stations for recreation boats in 25 Italian p...

Swedish energy company Vattenfall has hired Vinci subsidiary Nuvia to decommission two reactors at its Ringhals nuclear power plant. Nuvia w...

Ontario will refurbish a nuclear power station near Toronto to extend its life by 30 years amid rapid growth in demand for electricity. Prov...

Peri 3D Construction has handed over a printed data centre in Heidelberg, Germany. It calls the 600-sq-m building, named “Wavehouse”, Europe...

French engineer Eiffage has won a €92m contract to renovate the 25,000 sq m “Cristallis” project in northern Paris’ ninth arrondissement. Th...

The 285m-tall Two Manhattan West skyscraper, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), has been completed. The tower is located on the c...

Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a luxury resort on decommissioned oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, to be called “The Rig”. Located 40k...

Amsterdam is changing its planning rules to allow more housing in existing neighbourhoods, newspaper De Telegraaf reports. In the recent pas...

The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced $729m in funding to repair roads and bridges damaged by hurricanes, flooding and...

The design of a 50,000 sq m terminal for Florence Airport has been unveiled by Rafael Viñoly Architects, complete with a 19-acre rooftop vin...

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Academy now takes payment in US dollars, Hong Kong dollars, and euros to make training more acces...

Tokyo plans to build a civilian bomb shelter under a central subway station because of growing global tensions, Japan Times reports. It will...

The US Army Corps of Engineers has published a provisional plan to protect the 12km San Francisco waterfront from floods caused by rising se...

With an eye on 40 more years of growth, the Walt Disney Company is planning to spend up to $2.5bn over the next 10 years to expand its Disne...

Beijing has told a dozen local governments to halt or delay infrastructure projects to limit debt increases, Reuters reports.  Local governm...

Danish architect Lundgaard & Tranberg has won a competition to design the $30m refurbishment of a Viking ship museum in Roskilde, eastern De...

The US Department of Defence has announced plans to add renewable energy sources to the Pentagon. The building, the world’s second largest o...

A judge in Hong Kong today ordered one of China’s biggest property developers, Evergrande, to liquidate in light of its more-than $300bn deb...

Russia’s planned Power of Siberia 2 pipeline intended to ship Russian gas to China is facing delays, the Financial Times reported yesterday....

Luxembourg’s government has offered assistance to elements of its construction industry in the six months between February and July 2024. Th...