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El Salvador plans to invest $700m in building its first modern railway to improve communication inside the country and with neighbouring sta...

The city of Bologna has begun a €4.3m project to prepare for the possible collapse of its famous, leaning Garisenda Tower, completed in 1119...

The board of US chemical company Dow has given the green light to a US$6.5bn petrochemical plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Dow said the...

Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida told the COP28 climate summit in Dubai that his country would no longer build “unabated” coal-fired po...

Cimic Group companies UGL and CPB Contractors have been selected by Transgrid to deliver the western section of the HumeLink high voltage el...

French green-hydrogen specialist Lhyfe has been chosen by the Port of Nantes Saint-Nazaire to build a green hydrogen factory in Montoir-de-B...

The UK government has secured £226m to build new drainage and water treatment systems for the Iraqi city of Hillah south of Baghdad. Under t...

German logistics magnate Klaus-Michael Kühne is considering a purchase of Signa Real Estate’s half-finished Elbtower, German business newspa...

The president of the Argentine Chamber of Construction has warned that construction companies have begun laying workers off in expectation o...

Skanska has won a contract to build “Malmö Designer Village”, billed as Scandinavia’s biggest outlet mall, near Malmö in Skanska’s home coun...

Spanish construction group Ferrovial yesterday said it had agreed to sell its 25% stake in FGP Topco, the parent company of Heathrow Airport...

Indian port builder JSW Infrastructure has signed an agreement with the government of Karnataka state in southwest India to build a $480m de...

A Dutch consortium has won a design competition for the Wisperweide school in Weesp, a city southwest of Amsterdam. This will be the first i...

A team made up of Dutch firms MVRDV and Orange Architects has revealed designs for three buildings in Nuvo, a mixed-use project that will be...

Heidelberg Materials has produced what it describes as the “world’s first carbon-captured net-zero cement”. Heidelberg says the carbon captu...

Swedish contractor Skanska and Norwegian civil engineer Syltern have won a contract to build a highway in Norway’s central Trøndelag County....

Swedish engineer Sweco has won a contract to help secure drinking water for the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, population 220,000. Mi...

French nuclear operator EDF aims to build nuclear reactors at a rate of up to 1.5 a year over the 2030s, its chief executive said. Luc Rémon...

The government of the Canadian province of Ontario this month promised legislation that would ban employers from requiring Canadian work exp...

Over 100 people have flown to the British Antarctic Survey’s Rothera Research Station to undertake construction work. The “construction seas...

Two Korean companies have signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s rail operator to aid the rebuilding of railways in the war tor...

A developer on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa has announced plans to build a theme park that will take advantage of the local flora...

Vietnam’s Planning ministry is considering plans to build a $2.2bn resort in the celebrated tourist attraction of Van Don in the northern pr...

An Orlando businessman will serve up to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the US government of $3.5m in tax revenue. Wendel Alga...

Mongolia will start building a metro line in its capital Ulaanbaatar next year, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. A senior Mongolian...