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Five things to watch for in 2025

With 2024 in its final days, GCR looked back over the year for clues about the trends we’re likely to see in 2025. 1. China’s economic reset Amid high youth…

Rise of the refurb: How Brussels is saying no to new-builds

Germany’s geothermal plan could put it in hot water

Eurozone construction activity falls for 29th straight month

Ireland’s concrete block nightmare

‘Electrolyte popsicles’: Five ways to survive the heat dome onsite

No one leaves without a job: University can’t produce enough construction grads

UK survey shows low confidence in new-build homes

London’s Grenfell Tower catastrophe in 2017, along with two cladding fires in Australia, motivated the NSW government to set up Project Remediate (Natalie Oxford/CC BY 4.0 Deed)

Getting to grips with unsafe cladding in New South Wales

Libya: Prepare for more ‘gray swans’ as climate change meets ageing infrastructure

Report warns of ‘Great Game’ politics in Africa after China’s rise

Hurricane Fiona, September 2022 (Nasa/Public domain)

Extreme weather is the new normal. Are you planning for it?

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

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

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