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Egypt has declared the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on a tributary of the Ni...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has withdrawn all its international staff from Ethiopia after two of its employees were arrested, physic...

The masterplan for a “Mindfulness City” in the southern Bhutanese town of Gelephu has been unveiled by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group...

A consortium of Vinci subsidiary Cobra IS, Acciona, and energy distributor Endeavour Energy has signed a commitment deed contract for a €6.1...

Some things take longer than expected. Next year sees the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum on the Giza Plateau outside Cairo. It’s 22 ye...

Construction management software vendor Procore Technologies launched its Australia and New Zealand University Programme this month at an ev...

Costain’s Professor Julian Hasinski has been selected to chair Nato’s first ever study into how the group should mitigate and adapt to clima...

Omar Alhuraibi is an engineer with some 20 years experience as a construction project manager in the UAE. He was born in Yemen, a country ra...

A nine-company consortium has won a €2.5bn design-and-build contract for a section of Line 15 East of the Grand Paris Express between Bobign...

Serving up a Christmas meal for relatives and friends can be daunting, but what if you had to cook for 30,000? It’s a challenge Café Nero co...

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has unveiled its design for the Royal Diriyah Opera House, incorporating traditional Najdi building techniques...

Qiddiya City, a planned project on the outskirts of Riyadh, will contain the world’s first gaming and electronic sports (esports) district,...

The design has been unveiled for a regeneration and preservation project at the Ramagrama Stupa, a Buddhist pilgrimage site and archaeologic...

Ireland’s Cork County Council has picked US engineer Jacobs to be its technical advisor for the new M28 motorway linking the N40 South Ring...

Thiess Group company Maca Civil has been picked to design and build the M80 Ring Road Completion in Melbourne, Australia in partnership with...

The December edition of the 21CC podcast is now live, featuring stories about refugees working in UK construction, the logistical challenges...

Five workers died in Stockholm Monday after the construction-site elevator they were in fell 20m to the ground. The incident happened on a s...

Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) will carry out a feasibility study on building a new nuclear reactor in the Netherlands. There is curre...

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed to loan $696m for a rail link between Burundi and Tanzania as part of Africa’s Central Corrid...

The South Korean city of Hanam is planning to build its own version of the MSG Sphere – an LED-covered 20,000-capacity orb that opened in La...

Investor Blackstone and data centre developer Digital Realty have teamed up to spend $7bn on 10 new data centres in western Europe and the U...

Chinese tech company Huawei plans to start work on its first European factory next year, Reuters reports. The Strasbourg plant will make ele...

The Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (Kaeri) and Hyundai Engineering have signed a memorandum of agreement aimed at winning export mar...

Three big construction sector bodies in Europe yesterday published a manifesto on achieving carbon and resource neutrality, outlining a long...

The Canadian city of Calgary has approved plans to build a US$880m biofuel plant developed by Green Impact Partners. The company said the de...