Two critical New York City transport megaprojects – the $16bn Hudson Tunnels project and the $2bn 2nd Avenue Subway extension – ended the week in limbo after the Trump administration… The post Trump funding freeze puts NYC megaprojects in limbo appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Aecom Hunt and Turner Construction will act as construction manager for the new Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland, Ohio, set to be the home stadium of the Cleveland Browns football… The post Aecom and Turner to build Ohio “Super Theater” appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Cimic subsidiary CPB Contractors has won a US$109m (A$165m) contract from the West Australian state government for the early contractor involvement phase on a new primary school in East Perth.… The post CPB Contractors to build Australian primary school appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
London-listed real estate company Dar Global will build the $1bn Trump Plaza Jeddah, a mixed-use project on King Abdulaziz Road in Saudi Arabia’s second-biggest city. It will have serviced apartments… The post $1bn mixed-use Trump Plaza Jeddah ‘brings Manhattan to Saudi Arabia’ appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The United Nations is helping to restore cultural sites in Lebanon damaged by the 2020 Beirut port explosions which, according to Human Rights Watch, killed 218 people, displaced 300,000, and… The post UN helps restore Lebanese cultural sites in wake of explosion appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Microsoft is backing green cement manufacturer Fortera in a bid to accelerate the adoption of low-carbon building materials across its global datacentre operations. The strategic investment, made through the company’s… The post Microsoft invests in Fortera to scale low-carbon cement production appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The construction industry had only 188,000 job openings in August, down 38% from the month before and 38% from August 2024, according to analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics… The post US building jobs plunge to near decade low appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Polish megaproject Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) seeks a contractor to deliver lifts, escalators and moving walkways at its new airport. The contract due to be awarded in 2026 includes the… The post Poland seeks contractor to keep things moving at new airport appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
French engineer Systra has acquired Spanish transport company Ardanuy Ingeniería for an undisclosed sum. The deal could help Systra move into Spanish, Portuguese and Hispanic American rail infrastructure markets. Ardanuy… The post Systra acquires Spanish rail company appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The “MPA Delivery Partners” joint venture of Mace, Parsons, and Arcadis has won a $665m, 4.5-year contract extension to keep delivering the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project in New York. The… The post Mace, Parsons, Arcadis win $665m extension of Hudson Tunnel Project appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Imagine friends invite you and your family to stay for the weekend but, in the middle of the night, they call the police, saying they’re victims of a home invasion.… The post ICE raid exposes chaos in the White House appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has joined a number of US national construction bodies throwing their weight behind a bipartisan bill that would give visas to migrant workers… The post New bill seeks 65,000 visas for migrant workers in US appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Morocco has opened the 68,700-capacity Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium in Rabat with a 5-0 win over Niger in a Confederation of African Football qualifying game. Morocco has opened the 68,700-capacity… The post Morocco opens national stadium and “jewel of football” with 5-0 win appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Denmark-headquartered design and engineering consultant Cowi has been picked as lead designer for the second phase of the nearly $2bn Second Avenue Subway project in New York City. It will… The post Designer picked for $2bn New York subway extension appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Skanska and the University of South Florida have kicked off the fifth cohort of their joint “Mentor Protégé Program”, a free 12-week course aimed at helping small, local construction businesses… The post Skanska teams up with university to coach small building firms appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A new report from the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI) Buildings Hub reveals how AI is already reshaping the way buildings are designed, constructed, and maintained. Buildings currently produce nearly 40%… The post AI is already changing buildings as report predicts $359bn market by 2034 appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A team of Bouygues, Stantec and Mott Macdonald will modernise Australia’s Davis Research Station in east Antarctica. The $250m renovation will modernise the 1957 facility with a main powerhouse, vehicle… The post Bouygues team to renovate Antarctic research centre appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The US arm of Sweden’s Skanska has set up “Skanska Advanced Technology”, or SAT, a new division to meet demand for data centres and semiconductor facilities. Its 285 people will… The post Skanska launches high-tech construction division appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The first tunnel connecting Austria and Italy under the Alps has broken through some 1.4km beneath the Brenner Pass, which forms the border between the two countries. When completed, the… The post Brenner Base Tunnel breaks through to connect Austria and Italy appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A Spanish consortium of Elecnor and Vinci subsidiary Cobra will electrify 870km of railway for Rail Baltica across Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia in what’s billed as Europe’s largest rail electrification… The post Vinci team lands €1.7bn Rail Baltica contract appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A joint venture of Hochtief subsidiaries, Turner Construction Company and FlatironDragados, has announced the opening of the new Terminal 1 building at San Diego International Airport (SAN). Work began on… The post Turner and FlatironDragados’ $2.6bn terminal opens at San Diego airport appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A judge in Washington, DC on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s stop-work order against the nearly complete, 704MW Revolution Wind scheme being built off the eastern… The post US judge halts Trump’s attack on Revolution Wind appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Microsoft has confirmed it will invest an extra $4bn over the next three years at its complex in Fairwater, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, creating what the company describes as the “world’s… The post Microsoft green lights second phase of “world’s most powerful AI” data centre appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
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
Donald Trump justified his global tariff carpet-bombing campaign by saying it would encourage high-tech manufacturers to build factories in the US. But the raid led by US Immigration and Customs…| 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
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
US business magazine Fast Company has named Danish architect Henning Larsen as one of the world’s most innovative companies for using ancient building materials with a modern twist.| Global Construction Review
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