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Building big, utility scale solar farms is extremely labour intensive.Workers have to lift many thousands of heavy panels, placing them...

As the Trump administration threatened this week to cancel around $4bn in funding for California’s under-construction high-speed railway, a...

Austria’s Porr Group has won a €428m design-and-build contract to renovate a 33km railway that runs between the southwest Romanian cities of...

A construction worker died in a gruesome incident at a construction site in central Florida on Wednesday, and a fellow worker has been charg...

Streaming giant Netflix has broken ground on a $1bn, 292-acre production studio located on a former US Army base in Fort Monmouth, New Jerse...

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi opened a 14km, five-station extension of the Orange metro line in Kanpur last week, continuing the rapid...

UK construction tech company Automated Architecture (Auar) has secured £5.1m in new funding to commercialise its robotic “pop-up micro-facto...

Cimic subsidiary Leighton Asia has been awarded a $130m contract by Indian real estate company Elan Group to build a residential project in...

Swiss telecoms company Leuk TDC has turned two obsolete satellite dishes on its land into sun-tracking solar power plants to help power its...

Danish maritime architect Mast and construction company BIK bouw are proposing to build a floating neighbourhood at a disused dock in the ce...

Switzerland’s Implenia has won a €200m contract to build two rail tunnels under Frankfurt for German state rail infrastructure operator DB I...

US vehicle manufacturer General Motors says it will spend $888m on a plant to make V-8 engines in Tonawanda, near Buffalo in New York State....

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency arrested more than 100 undocumented construction workers at sites around the Florida...

Work on a $2.4bn telescope sited on top of a volcano in Hawaii is set to be abandoned after the body funding decided to prioritise other sch...

A 4.8km causeway between Sanibel Island and mainland Florida has been “substantially completed” after being rendered unusable by Hurricane I...

Skanska has completed the $38m, 45,000-sq-ft expansion of Newsome High School in Lithia, Hillsborough County, Florida, to a design by Hepner...

Google is planning to invest $10bn in a 486ha datacentre complex in West Memphis, Arkansas, local media report.West Memphis lies to the...

AtkinsRéalis company Candu Energy has won a C$450m execution contract from Ontario Power Generation (OPG) to build the first of four planned...

Construction management tech platform Buildots has secured another $45m in series D funding from investors in a round led by Qumra Capital a...

The European arm of Japan’s Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCME) has partnered with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Nether...

The company behind Poland’s national transportation upgrade – Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) – is now seeking a contractor to build the...

Skanska has signed a US$160m contract to build the underground Skøyen metro station in Oslo, Norway.Located 45m below ground, the two tr...

After six construction seasons squeezed into Antarctica’s brief summer, the British Antarctic Survey’s new research support facility, the Di...

A Singaporean builder has been fined just under S$4.3m (US$3.3m) for colluding with a Chinese firm to rig bids for community-centre projects...

UK equipment maker JCB has secured the European Union’s approval to sell its hydrogen engines in primary or third-party non-road mobile mach...