A joint venture of contractors last week started the complex job of building a double-deck road tunnel under the Albert Canal in Antwerp, Belgium. It will consist of a pair…

Six international design teams have been made it to the final stage of a competition to design an extension to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp. About 50 practices…

Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also involves expanding the US company’s existing…

Belgian contractor Besix started work this month on a €31m project to replace all seven railway level crossings in the Belgian city of Bilzen. Over three years, it will use…

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has used battery power to slide an 850-tonne concrete tunnel section into place under railway tracks in Belgium. It took less than an hour to slide the…

A former industrial site will be transformed by Dutch architect KCAP into a kilometer-long urban housing development within a park. The Rinkkaai project is located 400m from Ghent’s central Gent-Sint-Peters…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced financing of €475m to upgrade Brussels’ north to south tram system. The money will, among other things, be used to build a tunnel…

Indoor ski slope SnowWorld Antwerp in Belgium has put 1,452 solar panels on its vast roof. The transformation came about after SnowWorld rented its roof to solar company Energy Vision,…

Belgian contractor Besix and Bouygues subsidiary Equans have won a design-and-build contract for a data centre in Neder-Over-Heembeek on behalf of Dutch developer KevlinX. The turnkey project will have a…

Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its masterplan for a redevelopment of the Tour & Taxi industrial area on the banks of the Brussels canal in the north of the Belgian…

Belgium this week granted environmental permits for a North Sea energy island and work will begin in March next year with a view to completion in August 2026. The aim…

Besix Belgium-Luxembourg has won a contract to comprehensively renovate “The Hive”, a 60,147-sq-m office building in central Brussels owned by BNP Paribas Fortis. The client wants to bring more daylight…

Design and engineering company Sweco is studying the feasibility of building 70km of new pipelines to carry imported green hydrogen to users in Belgium for gas company Fluxys Belgium. Fluxys…

North Sea Port and Luxembourg-based steelmaker ArcelorMittal will develop a 150ha industrial estate in northeast Belgium. The “North-C Circular” estate will be built alongside the Ghent–Terneuzen canal, next to ArcelorMittal’s…

Gas transmission companies Gascade and Fluxys have asked the European Commission to grant special status to their project to build a hydrogen pipeline under the North Sea. They say the…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has given a €475m loan to the Brussels Capital Region to fund a scheme intended to make public transport more attractive than driving in the…