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INNOVATION

New Zealand company system can turn smartphone into “professional surveying instrument”

New Zealand tech company IkeGPS has launched the latest version of its Spike device, which ...

Los Angeles paints its streets white

Company plans to mine the Moon by 2020

TRENDS

China involved in 30% of global infrastructure: study

China is widely admired for the speed at which it has urbanised and built out ...

Solar roof tiles power Kenya’s rural classrooms

Algorithms design Hamburg concert hall: “It would be insane to do this by hand”

COMPANIES

UK’s Kier takes £86m hit in Hong Kong, Caribbean

UK contractor Kier has been hit by charges of £86m relating to problem contracts in ...

Dangote Cement signals start of bidding war for South African rival

Finance director leaves troubled UK contractor Carillion amid shake-up

SECTORS

UK abandons rail electrification schemes

The UK government has scrapped plans to electrify three railway lines – in Wales, the ...

How Asia’s Super Grid may open a brighter future for the region

Africa’s ports revolution: A tale of two port cities

PERSPECTIVES

Homs is broken, but should not be erased

For this Syrian city to heal, sensitive restoration is needed more than the amnesia conferred ...

China to launch fully autonomous car by 2020

End of Qatar deadline triggers seismic shift in Gulf relations

MARKETS

Who are the best paid tradespeople in the world?

Do electricians earn more in Germany, Japan or the USA? The answer might surprise you. ...

Korea’s Lotte to build Vietnam’s answer to Canary Wharf

Saudi project logjam to break this year, says report

YOUR COMMENTS

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“One can only salute the people of China today who ...“ Mr Jose' Scalabrino MCIOB
on UNStudio’s massive Hangzhou “urban hub” is completed

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Spanish engineer builds Serbian bridge to replace one bombed by Nato

Mott MacDonald and Grimshaw are in team chosen for $10bn JFK airport makeover

Chinese company seeks ownership of fourth UK nuclear plant

UNStudio’s massive Hangzhou “urban hub” is completed

"Ghost Tower" repossessed in Ho Chi Minh after lack of payment

Turner & Townsend wins Canadian parliament refurb

Ramboll, BIG and MVRDV land roles on $542m mixed-use project in Abu Dhabi

Beijing opens new embassy in Panama amid praise for Belt and Road

China punishes 31 for deadly construction accident

Community relations fight erupts over $1bn Kansas City Airport

Developer, foreman jailed over death of “devoted granddad” carpenter

“Massive” Grenfell probe widens to 336 companies involved in building

World’s tallest solar tower to go up in Dubai: $3.8bn contract

A corruption storm intensifies

OHL wins more Manhattan infra work

BAM wins jetty job in Sierra Leone

ACS hopes pinned on Hochtief

We could do it a trillion dollars better

House building drive for Sri Lanka

Vinci wins two water engineering contracts in Jamaica

Spanish engineer builds Serbian bridge to replace one bombed by Nato

Tanzania seeks “fugitive” UK contractor it says fled with millions

Mott MacDonald and Grimshaw are in team chosen for $10bn JFK airport makeover

Chinese giant CSCEC considers buying Spain’s OHL

Townspeople surge on collapsed hospital in Kenya, rescuing 40

Kansas council rejects “home team” for new $1bn air terminal