Ageing US bridges gave Swedish group Skanska a big start to the year as it announced two bridge projects this month worth a combined $670m. In North Carolina, it won…

2024年12月20日 · Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, right, observes military exercises in the northeastern town of Orzysz on 14 October, with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, left, and Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, Lieutenant General Stanisław Czosnek, middle (Office of the Polish Prime Minister)

China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) has been chosen to build a “medical city” in the Dhi Qar Governorate in southern Iraq.

2025年1月8日 · The Hong Kong Construction Association says Hong Kong could adopt mainland Chinese standards for construction materials instead of using British and EU standards to cut building costs, which are currently the highest in Asia. Executive director Godfrey Leung King-kwok told South China Morning Post ...

2025年1月15日 · Management consultant Bain & Company predicts a recovery in some of Europe’s biggest construction markets in 2025 after a two-year slump over 2023-24. Its analysis covers the UK, the Nordics, France, Germany and Italy. It says growth will come from residential, sustainable office, and ...

2024年6月5日 · Will Arnold, climate action leader at the Institution of Structural Engineers and lead author of the proposed Part Z embodied carbon regulation for the UK, said: “It depends.It depends on where you are, it depends on what’s needed, and therefore we should only be building the things we need, and in the UK we’ve got hundreds of thousands of empty buildings currently and yet we’re also ...

With 2024 in its final days, GCR looked back over the year for clues about the trends we’re likely to see in 2025. 1. China’s economic reset Amid high youth…

2023年11月13日 · An international survey by construction technology firm PlanRadar suggests high numbers of companies have not invested anything over the past three years in certain types of technologies touted as productivity-boosters.

2024年3月8日 · The global construction industry stands at a crossroads. As outlined by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, if trends persist, global carbon emissions from construction are projected to increase 13% by 2035. Considering that the industry is responsible for around 40% of global energy and industrial-related emissions, the need for action becomes even more pronounced.

This month on the 21CC podcast, we’re checking in to see how the industry’s doing on race equality. The stats vary, but most counts show that people of colour are…