China Railway 18th Bureau Group, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation, has been awarded a contract worth around $272m (AED1bn) to build twin residential towers in…

Speculative residential construction in China may have collapsed, but ongoing investment in infrastructure, renewables and megaprojects still make the country a global construction powerhouse, according to a forecast by market intelligence firm, GlobalData.

Once home to Asia’s biggest cement factory, an awkward waterfront industrial zone in Shanghai is now a stylish culture and leisure district that uses the site’s old, monolithic structures to…

A huge inflatable dome has been erected over an entire construction site in Jinan, capital of Shandong province in east China. Officials say it allows for all-weather construction and expanded…

The government of Hong Kong has picked a joint venture of Aecom and AtkinsRéalis to build the Hong Kong section of the Hong Kong–Shenzhen Western Rail Link. The JV will…

A joint venture between France’s Manitou Group and China’s Hangcha Group will build a lithium-ion battery factory in Le Mans, northern France. They say it will let users upgrade their…

Construction has begun on the world’s largest hydropower dam, a $167bn Chinese project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, according to state news agency Xinhua. Five cascade hydropower stations will produce…

UK architect Foster + Partners has won a competition to design a 3.2-sq-km area masterplan in northern Shanghai’s Putuo district. The project is based around Shanghai West Railway Station and…

A group of state and private sector partners in China launched a project to build an offshore wind-powered data centre under the sea off Shanghai on Tuesday. The idea is…

Egypt’s Arab Contractors has teamed up with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) to jointly bid for work in Egypt and the rest of Africa. Egyptian prime minister Mostafa Madbouly…

A Singaporean builder has been fined just under S$4.3m (US$3.3m) for colluding with a Chinese firm to rig bids for community-centre projects worth some S$56m in the city state. The…

Vietnam is still in talks with Russian nuclear engineer Rosatom about building nuclear power plants in Vietnam, the two countries said in a joint statement reported by Reuters. The parties…

The European Commission, the main executive body of the EU, has imposed extra “anti-subsidy” duties on Chinese mobile access equipment such as forklifts, scissor lifts and boom lifts. Ranging from…

Police in Thailand have arrested a Chinese executive of construction firm China Railway No. 10 (Thailand) after the Bangkok office tower it was building disintegrated in the 28 March earthquake.…

Hong Kong’s High Court has liquidated Paul Y. Engineering, a construction and civil engineering company founded in 1946, after it defaulted on debt repayments. Paul Y. is currently involved with…

Chinese equipment maker Sany has entered the offshore wind market with a “breakthrough” order to supply the Guangdong Energy Group’s Jieyang Shibeishan project, Energy Global website reports. The company has…

Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports.  The deal was…

A team of scientists at China’s Nanjing University has developed a technique for increasing the strength of wood by removing the hollow tubes that run through its cellulose structure.  Called…