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The former president of the New York State Building and Construction Trades Council has been sentenced to 51 months in prison after pleading...

New York City’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) yesterday broke ground on a $92m project to build an abandoned animal care centr...

UK architect Foster + Partners and Swiss cement maker Holcim teamed up to design a shelter for displaced people. Their Essential Homes Resea...

Design and engineering company Sweco is studying the feasibility of building 70km of new pipelines to carry imported green hydrogen to users...

Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport is considering plans to build a second airport in Hanoi to accommodate an expected increase in population fr...

Dutch architect MVRDV it to reconfigure a former oil refinery as an urban quarter for the southeastern city of Hangzhou. The plan is to make...

The government of Kyrgyzstan has held talks with Chinese contractors over the construction of a 1GW solar farm in the Central Asian country,...

Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi held a virtual meeting today to sign an agreement to finance, des...

Vietnam has approved a scheme to prevent a looming power shortage and meet net-zero goals with a $135bn investment package that will favour...

Bahrain’s Transport Ministry has chosen Netherlands Airport Consultants (NACO) to help it plan and implement a $10bn greenfield project to r...

The government of Nepal has said it will ask the Nepal Infrastructure Company to finish work on public sector infrastructure developments wh...

Italian contractor Webuild has won a €284m contract to build a 15km section of the Pedemontana Piemontese highway in Piedmont. Working on be...

The Circlewood consortium, a collective of architects, engineers, builders and researchers, has designed a modular building concept that wil...

Canada will spend US$1bn on a 10-year project to rebuild the Dwyer Hill Training Centre, home of the country’s Task Force 2 special forces u...

Libya’s Ministry of Investment has signed an agreement with Chinese, British, French, and German companies to reconstruct the country’s citi...

Bogotá, capital of Colombia, has begun the tender process for the city’s second metro line, according to a tweet by the city’s mayor, Claudi...

More than a quarter (28%) of construction decision makers in the UK and Ireland say volatility in the economy and the industry has prompted...

Belgium’s Besix and Denmark’s MT Højgaard broke ground last week on a €346m contract to extend the Nordhavn Tunnel in Copenhagen for the Dan...

A team led by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma & Associates (KKAA) has won a competition to design a visitor centre for Albania’s Butrint Natio...

Construction workers in the US enjoyed real-wage growth of 2.9% last year, the highest of any sector in the country, the ADP Research Instit...

A construction permit has been awarded to “Ziel”, a 15-storey residential development on the southern tip of Montevideo designed by Dutch ar...

A team made up of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), Boston’s William Rawn Associates and Nashville-based EOA Architects has won a...

Webuild and joint-venture partner Shibh Al Jazira Contracting Company (Sajco) have signed a €1.4bn contract to design and build 57km of a hi...

Data from China Railways, the country’s national rail operator, shows that fixed-asset investment in the first four months of the year was $...

The Chartered Institute of Building announced today that it is postponing CIOB Awards until next year. The new entry deadline is 31 August 2...