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- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/13
The Egyptian Ministry of Transport has chosen a joint venture of French consulting engineers Egis and Setec to work on the design of the sec...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/13
UGL, a subsidiary of Australian contractor Cimic, has won a five-year contract with a US$50m ceiling to provide power-line maintenance and c...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/13
UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners says it has completed two towers for Vietnam’s Techcombank. Similar in design, one is a 22-stor...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/13
China is mulling raising its infrastructure spending by a trillion yuan, or $137bn, to accelerate the economy’s recovery from its long perio...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/13
Hochtief’s US subsidiary Turner Construction has won a $399m contract to expand C Concourse at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). S...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/13
Mexican cement company Cemex is to provide 20,000 cubic yards of low-carbon concrete for an extension to Houston Methodist’s Centennial T...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/13
Four labourers and a pedestrian were killed and two people injured when the third floor of an under-construction building collapsed in Shah...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/12
Japanese wooden housing and materials company Sumitomo Forestry has spent $215m to acquire a majority stake in US housebuilder JPI. JPI will...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/12
Science Gateway, an education facility at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, has opened to the public. Designe...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/12
Car-maker Honda is planning to team up with Mitsubishi Corporation to begin an electricity supply and storage business using the batteries o...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/11
Four people have been indicted over a $5-10m extension to a cancer centre in Florida, awarded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)....
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/11
Swedish battery maker Northvolt has announced plans for a $5bn lithium-ion gigafactory near the Canadian city of Montreal. The Northvolt Six...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/10
The US government has agreed to restore a sacred First Nation site in Oregon after a 15-year battle in the Supreme Court.The Place of...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/10
The Vesterheim Norwegian–American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, has just been given an 8,000 sq m building designed by Norwegian architect Snøhet...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/10
Work has begun on unit one of the $18bn Lianjiang nuclear power plant in southeast China’s Guangdong province. The announcement was made on...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/9
President Ruto of Kenya is to use his visit to Beijing later this month to ask China for a $1bn loan to restart work on stalled road project...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/9
The Japanese government is likely to postpone further plans to extend a bullet train line to Sapporo, capital of the northern Japanese islan...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/9
A New York funding body has launched a project to encourage construction professionals in the city to make greater use of mass timber in the...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/9
Developer Mitsubishi Estate has fired the starting pistol for what will become Japan’s tallest building: the 390m Torch Tower skyscraper nea...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/6
The Mekong Delta in Vietnam may run out of sand by 2035 as the country’s building boom and the installation of up-river hydroelectric scheme...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/6
Some 141 years since construction began on Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia basilica in Barcelona, two more of its 18 towers have been complet...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/6
Australian architect Contreras Earl has revealed its design for a second “vertiport” in Merlbourne. This will handle flying taxis at Batman...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/6
Belgium this week granted environmental permits for a North Sea energy island and work will begin in March next year with a view to completi...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/6
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a $7.5bn fund as part of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFI...
- GCR ( Middle East ) 2023/10/6
The Saudi Arabian government is planning to adapt part of Jeddah’s historic Al-Balad district into a 370ha development containing 9,300 resi...