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Award-winning British actor Idris Elba aims to develop a wind farm in Sierra Leone with UK utility Octopus Energy. Octopus said on Tuesday i...

A consortium that includes Spain’s Acciona and Italy’s RCM Construzioni has been selected to build a 880m-long, 22m-wide breakwater at the P...

Turner Construction has broken ground on a $2bn data centre campus in New Albany, central Ohio. The project, which is for IT services compan...

Are you happy at work? Could you be? Should you be? The next episode of the 21CC Podcast will feature construction’s first “Happiness Barome...

Heineken has begun building a €45m research centre near its brewery in Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands. When complete next summer, the “Dr HP H...

China Energy Investments today connected the first instalment of its 1GW offshore solar farm to the grid. Lying some 8km off the coast of Ke...

Vinci Grands Projets is to team up with its sister companies GTM Sud-Oues and Chantiers Modernes Nouvelle-Aquitaine to design and build a wa...

Skanska’s programme management group, Skanska Integrated Solutions, has finished the new Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston’s Chinatown in...

The newly elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, has launched a plan to build a million homes people can buy with zero-interest mor...

Work has been completed on an expansion designed by New York architect Studio Gang for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco....

Consultants from Austria, the UK and the US have been chosen to fill the roles of urban designer, planning consultant and infrastructure des...

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers have arrived at Rothera, the UK’s largest research station on the continent, ready to remove the accu...

The EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) has signed two agreements worth €1.4bn in an effort to speed up completion of the Rail Baltica pro...

Thai contractor CH Karnchang Plc has picked Aecom as lead designer for the Orange Line West metro project in Bangkok, billed as one of the b...

With new powers to develop independent electricity supplies, the Nigerian state of Lagos has invited bidders to express interest in building...

As Morocco suffers its worst drought for 40 years, French water specialist Veolia has agreed in principle to build a desalination plant near...

Zublin Construction, a unit of Austria’s Strabag, has been selected to build a €250m luxury residential development on Yas Island in Abu Dha...

The government of Germany has put forward a bill to boost housing output by streamlining regulations. The Building Type E Act aims to lower...

Japan yesterday signed a preliminary agreement to help Poland develop its nuclear power industry with next-generation reactors, Reuters repo...

Brazil will not be joining China’s global infrastructure push, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a senior government official said last we...

Morocco has secured €400m to fund the expansion of its truck and passenger terminal at Tanger Med Port. The expansion will more than double...

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced an initial €900m recovery and reconstruction package for Spain following floods in the prov...

French rail engineer Alstom has signed a contract to deliver 117 freight locomotives to Kazakhstan. The agreement, announced on Monday, is p...

Sweden has vetoed the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, saying they could impede military operations. The rejected f...

Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron and New York’s PBDW Architects have been selected to renovate 945 Madison Avenue in New York City into th...