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
German contractor Züblin and technology firm Instatiq are testing the boundaries of 3D printing by printing the top floor of a four-storey apartment building on site in the small city of Metzingen, 30km south of Stuttgart.| Global Construction Review
The government of Portugal has asked France’s Vinci to submit a proposal for the construction and operation of a new international airport for Lisbon, the Aviacionline website reports.| Global Construction Review
The European Investment Bank (EIB) this week released the first tranche of funding – €875m – to start work on Portugal’s first high-speed railway between Porto and Lisbon.| Global Construction Review
Three subsidiaries of contractor FlatironDragados have been spun off to form a civil construction business in New York and New Jersey.| Global Construction Review
Norway-headquartered energy developer Equinor last month broke ground on a project to turn New York City’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into a construction hub for Equinor’s first US offshore wind project, Empire Wind 1.| Global Construction Review
Norway has again proposed offering subsidies worth some $3.3bn to encourage bids in the country’s first tender for a floating wind farm, Reuters reports.| Global Construction Review
Wind farms off the coast of New York could power green hydrogen production at below $2 a kilogram by 2030, say researchers at the US state-funded National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).| Global Construction Review
The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) has awarded a $414m contract to build the Franconia-Springfield rail bypass to a joint venture of FlatironDragados and Herzog.| 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