The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is suing the Trump administration over what it called the administration’s “illegal termination” of around $4bn in federal grants awarded during the Biden administration…

A report by UK-headquartered Mace has analysed 5,000 mega- and giga-projects worldwide, finding that 11% are at risk of delays or cancellation, with a potential loss of $1.5tn in global…

As the Trump administration threatened this week to cancel around $4bn in funding for California’s under-construction high-speed railway, a survey showed 67% of voters in the state support the project.…

Work on a $2.4bn telescope sited on top of a volcano in Hawaii is set to be abandoned after the body funding decided to prioritise other schemes and areas of…

Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri has become the latest US university to halt major construction projects as the Trump administration sows confusion over funding. It hit pause on a…

Dutch grid operator Liander has warned that 317 of its construction projects are at risk because the government has delayed a decision on how to combat nitrogen pollution, the NL…

A US company has cancelled plans to build a $300m plastic waste recycling plant in Erie, Pennsylvania, citing concerns about the financial case for the project in light of cuts…

Kenya has decided to terminate a €1.3bn road-building contract with a consortium led by French contractor Vinci Highways and is expected to give it to an unnamed Chinese company, Reuters…

Microsoft says it will slow or pause work on some data centres currently at an early construction stage. Cloud operations president Noelle Walsh said in a LinkedIn post that the…

US Secretary of Transportation Sean P. Duffy yesterday ordered the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to investigate whether $4bn pledged by the Biden administration for the California High-Speed Rail project should…

Sweden has vetoed the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, saying they could impede military operations. The rejected farms together would have had around 30GW of…

Work has paused at Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast’s $4bn factory in North Carolina as officials review the company’s proposals to shrink it. Questions have been asked about the…

Bangladesh Railway (BR) has cancelled a rail upgrade scheme in the northeast of the country after talks with a Chinese contractor that dragged on for nine years, local newspaper The…

Beijing has told a dozen local governments to halt or delay infrastructure projects to limit debt increases, Reuters reports.  Local governments in China have some autonomy in how they implement…

A court in California says the city of Beverly Hills must stop approving construction projects because it is not complying with a state law that requires it to offer affordable…

The government of New Zealand has cancelled a light rail project for Auckland after the cost ballooned from US$9.8bn to as much as $19bn. The project was announced in 2018,…

Egypt has declared the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on a tributary of the Nile River to be over without agreement.…

German logistics magnate Klaus-Michael Kühne is considering a purchase of Signa Real Estate’s half-finished Elbtower, German business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. A source told the paper that discussions on a possible…