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France’s Egis has won a site supervision consultant contract for Riyadh’s new 3.6km monorail for the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD).| Global Construction Review
Employers’ group the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has renewed its call for the Trump administration to provide legal pathways for people to enter the US to work in construction after its latest annual workforce survey found that 45% of firms say labour shortages are causing project delays. The post Make foreign workers legal, contractors urge Trump appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Hochtief, Porr, Strabag and Ferrovial’s Polish subsidiary Budimex are among the contractors joining consortia to bid for the job of building the main terminal of Poland’s new international airport, estimated to cost more than $1.38bn. The post Five teams in race to build Poland’s new airport appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Jacobs has appointed Richard Sanderson as the company’s new general manager for Europe and UK, effective 29 September. The post Jacobs appoints Richard Sanderson general manager for Europe appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Tajik president Emomali Rahmon visited the under-construction Rogun hydropower dam this week to instruct the main contractor, Italy’s Webuild, to “work around the clock” while the benign summer weather lasts.… The post How the world’s tallest dam is shaping up in Tajikistan appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A consortium led by Spain’s Acciona has won a contract to design and build the westward extension of Toronto’s Line 5 Eglinton. On behalf of Ontario transport body Metrolinx, the… The post Acciona and WSP win Canadian light rail contract appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Dutch architect MVRDV and Taiwan’s HWC Architects have unveiled the design for a series of buildings with a look inspired by the surrounding natural rocks in Jialeshui, on Taiwan’s south… The post MVRDV designs giant rock-like structures for Taiwan’s coastline appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A trio of teams has won contracts worth a combined $2.6bn for new and upgraded Amtrak facilities in Boston, New York and Washington, DC. The design and build contacts for… The post Clark, Herzog and more win $2.6bn in Amtrak contracts appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The consortium building the $9.5bn New Terminal One project at New York City’s JFK International Airport has installed a wireless emergency notification system that goes beyond what the traditional air… The post Site comms system at JFK’s New Terminal One project ‘sets new standard for safety’ appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The Danish Road Directorate has hired a team of US engineer Jacobs and Denmark’s Rambøll to help build a tunnel from the country’s busiest port at Aarhus to siphon cargo… The post Jacobs and Rambøll win contract for Aarhus tunnel appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Eiffage Énergie Systèmes, a subsidiary of France’s Eiffage, has had a busy summer in Spain. It already has 5,000 staff there, and annual revenues topping €1bn, but it wants to… The post Eiffage buys up three Spanish companies appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
France’s Egis has won a site supervision consultant contract for Riyadh’s new 3.6km monorail for the King Abdullah Financial District (KAFD).| Global Construction Review
The Swedish city of Kiruna, which is gradually shuffling itself 5km to the east to make way for an expanding iron ore mine, this week celebrated the successful journey made… The post How, and why, they moved a 713-tonne church 5km in Sweden appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Despite President Trump’s action to cut billions in federal funding for the California High-Speed Rail project, a new poll finds that 62% of registered voters in the state – and… The post 62% of California voters say they want high-speed rail appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
The $232m, 31-acre Compton High School has been completed and will open to 1,800 students this school year in Compton, south of downtown Los Angeles. Andre Romelle Young, also known… The post Dr. Dre-financed high school completed in Compton appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
A consortium led by Webuild and including Ghella, Pizzarotti and Seli has landed a €1.6bn contract to build a 22.2km section of the high-speed railway under construction between Salerno, just… The post Webuild wins €1.6bn Italian high-speed rail contract appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Construction has begun on a $1.3bn terminal expansion at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, which involves adding a new satellite concourse, Concourse D. It will have 19 gates for narrow-body aircraft… The post Ground breaks on $1.3bn Chicago O’Hare expansion appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Japanese construction giant Taisei Corporation has announced a US$878m (¥130bn) acquisition of Toyo Construction for the equivalent of ¥1,750 per share. If accepted, Toyo Construction will become a fully owned… The post Japan’s Taisei offers $878m to buy rival Toyo Construction appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Launched by previous president Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana’s new, $400m National Cathedral was meant to be the “physical embodiment of unity, harmony and spirituality”, designed by British-Ghanaian architect Sir David Adjaye.… The post Unholy mess: Ghana moves to abandon its National Cathedral project appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
UK-headquartered machinery maker JCB has won a $45m contract to supply 4CX backhoe loaders to the US Marine Corps over the next five years, along with operator training and attachments.… The post JCB wins $45m contract to supply backhoes to US Marine Corps appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Foster + Partners has designed “IOTA Seoul I”, a mixed-use development close to Seoul Station. The three-building development includes a six-star hotel, a 34-storey office building, and a new tourism… The post Foster + Partners designs “green oasis” for Seoul appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Mace Consult will acquire the US cost consultant and project management company Turton Bond for an undisclosed sum. The deal aims to boost Mace Consult’s presence in the Americas, where… The post Mace buys 50-person US consultant appeared first on Global Construction Review.| 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
As presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet to negotiate Ukraine’s future, Ukrainians themselves are racing to fix vital infrastructure destroyed in Russia’s 2022 invasion. In just five months, one… The post Contractor restores water to Ukrainian city in five-month sprint appeared first on Global Construction Review.| Global Construction Review
Dubai investment firm Shamal Holding has unveiled plans for an “ultra-luxury” residential development on an artificial island off the Jumeirah coastline, called Naïa Island Dubai. The island will have a… The post Dubai to get “ultra-luxury” resort on artificial island appeared first on Global Construction Review.| 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
Big changes to UK immigration rules will likely have a major impact on construction, which relies on overseas workers.| Global Construction Review
Aecom have won three architect-engineer’s on-demand contracts from the US Army Corps of Engineers with a ceiling value of $400m for facilities modernisation in the US Pacific.| 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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