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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

New Jersey-headquartered bridge maker Acrow has supplied two modular steel bridges to keep traffic flowing during a major bridge replacement project on the busy Interstate 91 (I-91) in Northampton, 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

Mammoet used its 650t capacity Demag CC3800 crawler crane placed on its modified barge, ALE 250 (Photographs courtesy of Mammoet)

Mammoet installs first ‘villa orb’ at Red Sea’s Sheybarah Island Resort

‘Slow architecture’ produces Ferrero’s chocolate research centre

The upper 14 storeys of the Exchange building have been completed (Liftbuild/Barton Malow)

North America’s first ‘top-down’ tower nears completion in Detroit

The building powers itself by solar, uses 77% less water, and recovers thermal energy from its wastewater (Render by Hickok Cole)

What a real net-zero renovation looks like: American Geophysical Union HQ, Washington, DC

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

How the terminal will look when complete in 2028 (Port Authority of New York and New Jersey)

Leighton Asia wins four Mumbai towers in the past three months

The office will be located on the Massachusetts Pike (SGA)

Work begins on SGA’s ultramodern Boston life sciences building

Indonesian president Joko Widodo woos investors in the ballroom of the Djakarta Theater, Jakarta, on 18 October. His plan for a new capital in East Kalimantan relies on private investment for 80% of the projected $32bn cost of the new city (Photograph courtesy of Indonesia’s Presidential Secretariat/Muchlis Jr)

Indonesia dangles huge tax breaks to lure investors as new capital deadline looms

Kebony says its treatment gives softwoods the durability of tropical hardwoods (Photographs by Felix Wenzel/Courtesy of Kebony)

German Maritime Museum clads new depot with treated softwood

MTA personnel knew cable trays were dilapidated on elevated subway tracks but didn’t include their replacement in a major signal upgrade contract (Christopher Neugebauer/CC BY-SA 2.0)

New York transit agency told to stop wasting money on poorly scoped projects

The Harbour Bridge Project’s image of the work as it stood in June last year

Builders and TxDOT resume talks over safety of New Harbor Bridge design

Trevi Group subsidiary Treviicos created 25 miles of dam-within-a-dam to contain the water of Lake Okeechobee, southern Florida (Courtesy of Trevi Group)

When the levee breaks: How they made Florida’s great lake safe, for now

Ships start plying Besix’s new wharf at major LNG terminal in remote BC

Snapshot: Ireland’s premier kids hospital is 71% finished

Digital modelling put to test as historic Minneapolis bridge refurb nears end

Project snapshot: Trevi lays foundations for Algeria’s new motorway

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