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Work has started on the Burj Azizi, a $1.5bn tower named after Dubai Azizi Developments, which is likely to become the second tallest buildi...

Israel launched a construction recruitment drive in India this week seeking 10,000 workers as its war in Gaza makes Israeli reservists and P...

A court in California says the city of Beverly Hills must stop approving construction projects because it is not complying with a state law...

The company that manages China’s electricity grid says it will invest more than $70bn in its network this year to improve long-distance tran...

Germany’s plans to base its energy transition on a fleet of hydrogen-fuelled power plants may fall victim to the country’s growing economic...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced financing of €475m to upgrade Brussels’ north to south tram system. The money will, among o...

Amazon has joined forces with South Korea’s Hyundai to work on the development of autonomous construction sites. The team will use Amazon We...

Six consortiums are in the running to design and build Dubai Metro’s $4.9bn Blue Line, business website Zawya reports. Dubai’s Roads & Trans...

Italian contractor Webuild has been awarded a $4.7bn project to build three dams for Saudi Arabia’s Neom megadevelopment. The aim is to make...

Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has teamed up with Ingka Investments, the owner of the Ikea furniture chain, to develop the Neptunus...

Saudi Arabia is looking for bidders for a proposed public-private partnership scheme to expand and modernise Abha Airport in the southwest o...

UK architect Haworth Tompkins and Finnish studio ARCO have won a competition to rebuild a theatre in the town of Kouvola in southeastern Fin...

A new district has been unveiled for Saudi Arabia’s Neom programme, which will be embedded within the 450m-tall mountain range next to the G...

Clark Construction Group has been selected by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Veterans Affairs for a $618m veterans’ he...

Dutch architect MVRDV has won a competition to design two buildings for Tianfu Software Park in Chengdu, central China. One is a 150m-tall o...

The Mitsubishi Corporation will invest $690m in developing the world’s largest green hydrogen plant in the Netherlands, Nikkei Asia reports....

Norwegian renewable energy generator Statkraft has announced plans to invest up to €6bn on hydroelectric and wind projects. The state-owned...

India has paved a kilometre of highway with a bitumen mix that uses processed steel slag as the aggregate instead of gravel. The Ministry of...

Beijing-based electronics group BOE Technology, the largest supplier of screens for the iPhone 15, will invest $9bn in a factory complex in...

Saudi developer Roshn and US concrete maker Partanna plan to build a carbon-negative concrete factory near Riyadh. Partanna’s method uses a...

Hong Kong-based architect 10 Design has published images of its design for the Huafa Snow World, a 131ha leisure and shopping destination se...

The French government says it wants to build eight more nuclear reactors on top of the six previously announced. Energy transition minister...

US employers group the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and its Louisiana chapter filed suit this week in federal court to bl...

Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, announced that $16m would spent to fund the testing of the “+ POOL”, a swimming pool in the shape of a pl...

Senegal’s electricity authority Senelec has awarded a €200m contract to France’s Vinci Energies to install 1,350km of high-voltage and very-...