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The agreement was signed in Riyadh on Tuesday (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

Samsung plans modular building plant in Saudi Arabia

Korean contractor Samsung C&T this week signed a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund to build a factory making modular building elements in the kingdom. Samsung’s agreement…

Construction work under way at the Teck Ghee station on another metro line (Seloloving/CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Singapore starts work on first phase of $30bn Cross Island Line

IJmuiden, Netherlands (Frank Cornelissen/Dreamstime)

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Arcadis to implement $750m Dutch hydrogen network

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Samsung plans modular building plant in Saudi Arabia

Singapore starts work on first phase of $30bn Cross Island Line

Arcadis to implement $750m Dutch hydrogen network

Turner wins two US university projects worth $158m

Amsterdam to open huge underwater bike sheds

SeaTwirl’s vertical-axis floating turbine gets green light in Norway

Innovation

JCB chairman Lord Bamford shows off the engine, developed by some 100 engineers working for more than a year (Courtesy of JCB)

JCB unveils first hydrogen engine

Rome’s Pantheon was built in AD 128 and is still in use today (Andreadonetti/Dreamstime)

Harvard and MIT rediscover secret of ‘self-healing’ Roman concrete

Co-founders Jani-Mikael Kuusisto, left, and Jarno Vehmas show their 0.3mm-thick printed film with tiny heaters, which they say can be integrated into a building’s interior surfaces (Courtesy of The Warming Surfaces Company)

Save money by heating a room’s surfaces, not its air, tech firm says

Companies

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

Keller sacks two over suspected fraud

Last year Hill International won a contract to manage the Marina Towers project in Egypt’s New Alamein City, pictured (Courtesy of Hill International)

GISI pays 19% more for Hill acquisition

WSP office (Public Domain/Raysonho @ Open Grid Scheduler/Grid Engine)

WSP acquires Swiss engineering consultant

Projects

Images courtesy of Commonwealth Heritage Forum/Icon/Hamish Ogston Foundation

Young learners help restore crumbling colonial-era mansion in Hyderabad

Gothenburg’s clay soil is notoriously challenging, so instead of opting for a bespoke, fabricated-steel shoring structure, the developer opted for ground-anchored props that could be moved around to hold up the walls of the excavation while permanent retaining walls were built (Courtesy of Groundforce)

How “raking props” helped Scandinavia’s tallest building rise from clay

Besix credited good teamwork across the project hierarchy for the safety milestone (Photograph courtesy of Besix)

Besix notches up 20 million injury-free hours on Dubai Uptown Tower

Perspectives

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

Destroyed apartment building in Irpin, Ukraine. Our report on the EU’s threats to seize $300bn in Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine was the most read in 2022 (Rasal Hague/CC BY-SA 4.0)

What you cared about most: See the most-read GCR stories of 2022

The study investigated 1,600 projects in 100 countries to chart the underlying causes of claims and disputes (©GCR, illustration by Denis Carrier)

35% of global project spend is burned up in disputes. This tragic waste is unnecessary

Trends

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

Photograph by Alireza Zarafshani/Unsplash

Tomorrow’s construction leaders come together in new CIOB community

Regionally, the Middle East had the most difficulty with delays, with the average time-extension claim adding 83% to schedules (Courtesy of HKA)

Disputes batter world’s major capital projects, study finds

Markets

Cord Landsmann and Musabbeh Al Kaabi signing the agreement in Abu Dhabi this week (ADNOC)

Abu Dhabi, Thyssenkrupp join forces to ‘crack’ ammonia for hydrogen

Demand for civil engineering is buoyed by low-carbon energy and transport schemes, but the prospects for residential output dragged the outlook downward (Hadi Yazdi Aznaveh/Unsplash)

European construction output to flatline in 2024: forecast

Among the vehicles using Nidec’s e-axle integrated drive system is the Guangzhou Group’s Zeekr saloon (Zotyefan/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Samsung plans modular building plant in Saudi Arabia

Singapore starts work on first phase of $30bn Cross Island Line

Arcadis to implement $750m Dutch hydrogen network

News

Samsung plans modular building plant in Saudi Arabia

Singapore starts work on first phase of $30bn Cross Island Line

Arcadis to implement $750m Dutch hydrogen network

Turner wins two US university projects worth $158m

Amsterdam to open huge underwater bike sheds

SeaTwirl’s vertical-axis floating turbine gets green light in Norway