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The Xiong’an rail station was completed in December 2020 (N509FZ/CC BY-SA 4.0)

China’s “City of the Future” will have one big brain

China’s city of the future, the Xiong’an New Area in Hebei Province, has been fitted with a $156m Urban Computing Centre that will act as its brain, storing a digital…

Going digital from the ground up

The rush to build battery factories in Hungary is partly based on BMW’s decision to build an EV plant (Ryedamien/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Chinese battery maker joins surge of investors in Hungary’s EV industry

The idea is to help staff do daily tasks more easily so they can focus on other responsibilities, Ferrovial said (Courtesy of Ferrovial)

Ferrovial gives staff AI “virtual assistant” for day-to-day tasks

Nairobi station, part of Kenya’s new standard gauge railway. Last year, Kenya’s government said it would ask for an extra 30 years to repay China the $5bn it borrowed (Macabe5387/CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Great Bail Out: How China is propping up its Belt-and-Road debtors

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

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

The 96m tower is planned for Fumba Town, the location of the “Silicon Zanzibar” initiative to attract tech companies to the fast growing island (Courtesy of OMT)

Developer unveils plans for Africa’s first hybrid timber tower in Zanzibar

Vancouver’s Canada Line is a 19km commuter railway running from the city’s downtown waterfront to its airport and the city of Richmond (Wikipedia user-Wpcpey/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Why Vancouver’s Canada Line is getting its own digital twin

Migrant workers in Doha, Qatar. While the hated kafala system of sponsored labour that kept workers in conditions of modern slavery has largely been dismantled, the ILO points to gaps in implementation (Alex Sergeev/www.asergeev.com/CC-BY-SA-3.0)

Qatar has more work to do on modern slavery, ILO says

Six UK professional institutes hatch plan to boost diversity

How a skills shortage in southern Europe could threaten the EU’s €750bn Covid recovery fund

Scheme to draw new Canadians into construction eases skills shortage

US records highest-ever construction vacancies amid pleas for federal help

Chinese supervisor becomes first foreign worker allowed to stay in Japan

California to test solar panels on canals as major source of energy

‘Decaying faith in the nation’: Kansas University gets funding to rethink bridge design

Plant-based egg factory breaks ground in Singapore

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