Planning permission has been granted for the Gstaad House in Switzerland, an auction house and gallery designed by UK architect Foster + Partners.| Global Construction Review
Webuild hires prisoners - Webuild has begun training prisoners in Italy to work on its project to build the Naples-Bari High-Speed Railway.| Global Construction Review
UK construction consultant Turner & Townsend has won a contract to manage the project of building a 300-bed, $592m (AU$910m) hospital to serve the growing population of Western Sydney, New South Wales (NSW).| Global Construction Review
ABB Robotics is working with San Francisco’s Cosmic Buildings to build modular structures on site in Pacific Palisades as the Los Angeles neighbourhood recovers from January’s devastating wildfires.| Global Construction Review
Saudi Arabia’s high-profile gigaproject Neom is considering laying off more than 1,000 staff and moving another 1,000 from the site’s headquarters in the remote northwest of the country to Riyadh, news website Semafor reports, citing three unnamed people familiar with the matter.| Global Construction Review
Norwegian energy company Equinor has secured $3bn in project financing for its project to build a wind farm off the coast of New York City.| Global Construction Review
