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Mace, Comtech and Systra selected for Toronto subway extension

A team that includes UK construction company Mace, Canadian consultancy Comtech and France’s Systra has been awarded a delivery partner services by Canadian state agency Metrolinx for the Scarborough Subway…

Don Mueang airport in Bangkok’s northern suburbs (Andre Wadman/GFDL 1.2)

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$1bn expansion of Bangkok’s budget air terminal to start this year

OX2’s map showing the location of the planned windfarm

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Sweden’s OX2 initiates 1.9GW Baltic hydrogen and electricity scheme

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Mace, Comtech and Systra selected for Toronto subway extension

$1bn expansion of Bangkok’s budget air terminal to start this year

Sweden’s OX2 initiates 1.9GW Baltic hydrogen and electricity scheme

Ferrovial wins first South Carolina contract

Five countries represented in finals of CIOB Global Student Challenge 2023

Work starts on Norway’s long-awaited Arctic international airport

Innovation

Attached to rebar or formwork and buried under the pour, the sensors send data about the concrete’s condition directly to engineers’ phones (Photograph by Prof Luna Lu)

US states line up to see how ‘talking concrete’ can cut repairs

Rebar robots team up to cut installation time in half

French firm pilots scheme to rebuild Ukraine with rubble of bombed buildings

Companies

Nadia Calviño (left) said Ferrovial’s decision was “very wrong” (Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation of Spain)

Spain objects to Ferrovial’s plan to move to the Netherlands

Priya Jain joins from consultancy Atlas, where she was chief growth officer. Before that, she led Atkins’ expansion in North America as senior vice president for sales and strategy (Photograph courtesy of Mace)

Meet Mace’s new “President for the Americas”

Keller at work on a Melbourne Metro tunnel in Australia (Courtesy of Keller)

Keller sacks two over suspected fraud

Projects

J.F. White Contracting is replacing four functionally obsolete bridges built in the 1960s. Acrow’s 500-foot-long detour bridge is seen here crossing over Route 5 and a railway (Courtesy of Acrow)

Dead bridges: How modular viaducts are keeping the I-91 open in Massachusetts

A study of 64 projects shows clear correlation between higher site-area use and programme achievability (Scott Blake/Unsplash)

On average, 54% of projects’ site areas lie idle. Is that okay?

The 185m-high Atlantis The Royal has 795 rooms and 231 serviced apartments (image courtesy of Besix)

Beyoncé sings at opening of Dubai’s new landmark hotel

Perspectives

Honduras switches to China in search of aid and infrastructure

‘I was absolutely stunned’: Palmina Whelan on joining the National Academy of Construction

Denmark is moving ahead with its planned €28bn “energy island” in the North Sea to facilitate a massive expansion in offshore wind power. Around the world, capital spending on energy and land-use systems will reach $275 trillion, according to McKinsey (Image courtesy of the Danish Energy Agency)

‘Permacrisis’ may be the word of the year, but I see bright spots

Trends

The “Katajanokan Laituri” building will have a load-bearing column and beam frame made from 1,600 cubic metres of laminated veneer lumber (Courtesy of the project’s developer, Varma)

Helsinki’s latest timber commercial building ate 6,000 tonnes of CO2

Clinique La Prairie’s resort will have a central “Longevity Plaza” (Courtesy of Red Sea Global)

New Saudi Red Sea resorts go big on high-end “wellness”

The arrangement reflects both countries’ geographical constraints: Israel doesn’t have enough land to develop big solar schemes, while Jordan has plenty of desert but no easy access to open seas. Map shows refugee and transit camps in Jordan (Joint Research Centre, ECHO, European Commission/CC BY 4.0)

Our sun for your water: Israel, Jordan renew ambitious solar-for-desalination plan

Markets

Egis to acquire Saudi design group Omrania

Turkey’s quake reconstruction could top $68bn: World Bank

Foster + Partners’ Lusail Stadium will be a centrepiece of the newly built Lusail City (AFL Architects/CC BY 3.0)

Mace, Comtech and Systra selected for Toronto subway extension

$1bn expansion of Bangkok’s budget air terminal to start this year

Sweden’s OX2 initiates 1.9GW Baltic hydrogen and electricity scheme

News

Mace, Comtech and Systra selected for Toronto subway extension

$1bn expansion of Bangkok’s budget air terminal to start this year

Sweden’s OX2 initiates 1.9GW Baltic hydrogen and electricity scheme

Ferrovial wins first South Carolina contract

Five countries represented in finals of CIOB Global Student Challenge 2023

Work starts on Norway’s long-awaited Arctic international airport

Innovation

US states line up to see how ‘talking concrete’ can cut repairs

Rebar robots team up to cut installation time in half

French firm pilots scheme to rebuild Ukraine with rubble of bombed buildings

Companies

Spain objects to Ferrovial’s plan to move to the Netherlands

Meet Mace’s new “President for the Americas”

Keller sacks two over suspected fraud

Projects

Dead bridges: How modular viaducts are keeping the I-91 open in Massachusetts

On average, 54% of projects’ site areas lie idle. Is that okay?

Beyoncé sings at opening of Dubai’s new landmark hotel

Perspectives

Honduras switches to China in search of aid and infrastructure

‘I was absolutely stunned’: Palmina Whelan on joining the National Academy of Construction

‘Permacrisis’ may be the word of the year, but I see bright spots

Trends

Helsinki’s latest timber commercial building ate 6,000 tonnes of CO2

New Saudi Red Sea resorts go big on high-end “wellness”

Our sun for your water: Israel, Jordan renew ambitious solar-for-desalination plan

Markets

Egis to acquire Saudi design group Omrania

Turkey’s quake reconstruction could top $68bn: World Bank

How Qatar pulled off its World Cup triumph – and what it’s planning next

Construction jobs

Mace, Comtech and Systra selected for Toronto subway extension

$1bn expansion of Bangkok’s budget air terminal to start this year

Sweden’s OX2 initiates 1.9GW Baltic hydrogen and electricity scheme

Mace, Comtech and Systra selected for Toronto subway extension

$1bn expansion of Bangkok’s budget air terminal to start this year

Sweden’s OX2 initiates 1.9GW Baltic hydrogen and electricity scheme

Ferrovial wins first South Carolina contract

Five countries represented in finals of CIOB Global Student Challenge 2023

Work starts on Norway’s long-awaited Arctic international airport

US states line up to see how ‘talking concrete’ can cut repairs

Rebar robots team up to cut installation time in half

French firm pilots scheme to rebuild Ukraine with rubble of bombed buildings

Spain objects to Ferrovial’s plan to move to the Netherlands

Meet Mace’s new “President for the Americas”

Keller sacks two over suspected fraud

Dead bridges: How modular viaducts are keeping the I-91 open in Massachusetts

On average, 54% of projects’ site areas lie idle. Is that okay?

Beyoncé sings at opening of Dubai’s new landmark hotel

Honduras switches to China in search of aid and infrastructure

‘I was absolutely stunned’: Palmina Whelan on joining the National Academy of Construction

‘Permacrisis’ may be the word of the year, but I see bright spots

Helsinki’s latest timber commercial building ate 6,000 tonnes of CO2

New Saudi Red Sea resorts go big on high-end “wellness”

Our sun for your water: Israel, Jordan renew ambitious solar-for-desalination plan

Egis to acquire Saudi design group Omrania

Turkey’s quake reconstruction could top $68bn: World Bank

How Qatar pulled off its World Cup triumph – and what it’s planning next

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