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Louisiana’s Department of Transportation has picked a consortium with which to negotiate exclusively for a $2.1bn replacement of the Calcasi...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have discovered that adding water and carbon black (soot from partial burning...

The World Bank plans to help fund 1,000 solar power mini grids to bring electricity to the 86 million Nigerians without access to it. Reuter...

Construction has begun on the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, a 2,980m-long structure that will cross the Huajiang River in Guizhou Province,...

The state government of Queensland, Australia has picked Cimic group company CPB Contractors to lead the detailed design phase of the A$1.2b...

Chinese battery maker Eve Energy said it will build a lithium-ion plant in Thailand to serve the Southeast Asian market. The announcement is...

The former general manager of China State Railway Group yesterday pleaded guilty to taking bribes over a period of 18 years, China Daily rep...

A team led by Spanish designer Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to modernise and extend the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), beat...

Israel has announced plans for a $27bn expansion to its rail network that would connect the entire country by high-speed rail. The “One Isra...

Webuild’s US subsidiary, Lane Construction, has won a $102m design-build project to overhaul a traffic-clogged highway interchange feeding D...

China’s State Council, the country’s highest government body, this week approved the construction of six reactors at three nuclear power sta...

Hyundai Engineering & Construction has won a $145m contract to build a power transmission line in Saudi Arabia, South Korean media report. ...

Estonian architect DAGOpen has won a design competition to create a standardised housing unit for families or small groups in Ukraine. DAGOp...

Boston’s mayor’s office has issued an executive order forbidding the use of fossil fuels during construction and major renovation projects o...

The US Embassy in the Philippines yesterday told local media that it was concerned about the large number of reclamation projects underway i...

India is planning to build the world’s largest museum in the centre of New Delhi. The Yuge Yugeen Bharat will collect artefacts covering 5,0...

UK firm Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been selected to design a 210m-tall mixed-use tower in Xi’an, the capital of China’s central Shaanxi...

Construction has begun on the 1,600m-long “super major bridge” that will span China’s Yellow River and link Henan Province Shandong province...

A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France v...

Seventeen construction workers have been killed and three injured by the collapse of girder installing machine at a road building project in...

CSC Costruzioni, the Swiss subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild, is leading the team carrying out a €157m road renovation contract in Switzerland’s...

Renewable energy specialist Masdar has signed a memorandum of understanding with Malaysian investment company Citaglobal to develop 2GW of s...

Bidding has opened for a 1,200km motorway and rail link that will connect southern Iraq with Turkey, the World Highways website reports. Ira...

Australia-headquartered consultant Aurecon has been appointed by Cheung Kong Holdings to provide civil, structural, and geotechnical consult...

Australian contractor UGL and EV maker Tesla have been chosen to carry out an expansion of the Western Downs Battery project in Queensland f...