News Shanghai group to put a wind-powered data centre under the sea 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…
News Big Chinese and Egyptian builders team up for African megaprojects 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…
News Builder fined millions after bosses’ WhatsApp chats expose bid-rigging 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…
News Vietnam, Russia in more talks over nuclear power 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…
Machinery, News Europe slaps more tariffs on Chinese mobile access equipment 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…
News Chinese executive arrested in wake of Bangkok collapse 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.…
News Hong Kong contractor Paul Y liquidated by government 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…
News Sany wins breakthrough offshore order with 10MW turbine 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…
News Chinese tech firm plans Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga 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…
Innovation Scientists discover chemical technique to make super-strong wood 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…
News ZHA’s Guangdong stadium complex to complete in June The Greater Bay Area Sports Centre in Guangdong, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects’ (ZHA), is due for completion in June ahead of China’s National Games in November. Set in a…
News China starts $1.5bn pumped-storage plant as water-power campaign gathers steam Work starts in June on a 1.4GW pumped storage power plant in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi, the latest start in China’s intense campaign to build hundreds of gigawatts…
News Chinese firm to build eight hospitals in Iraq China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) has broken ground on a 100-bed hospital in the southern Iraqi province of Dhi Qar. The facility will be built on a turnkey basis,…
News China’s CCECC to invest $1.4bn in Africa’s Tazara line for 30-year concession China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) will invest $1.4bn in an upgrade of Africa’s longest railway – the 1,860km “Tazara” line that connects Zambia’s copper belt with the port of…
News MVRDV creates mall to look like “stack of boxes” Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled the design for the LuLa Light Mall, a largely open air shopping centre in Chengdu, China, designed to resemble a “loose stack of boxes”. A…
News Norway disqualifies Chinese bidders for $400m ship tunnel The Norwegian Coastal Administration has cut the number of bidders for the Stad Ship Tunnel from six to four, after two Chinese consortia failed to prequalify. The teams are competing…
News Chinese company angles for Vietnam’s $1.1bn mountain railway PPP Executives from China Railways have met with Vietnamese officials to express interest in joining a $1.1bn project to restore a railway built by the French colonial government in the early…
News Chinese architect Liu Jiakun wins Pritzker for building ‘new worlds free of any aesthetic constraint’ Liu Jiakun has been named 2025 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize following a 40-year career and 30 projects ranging from academic and cultural institutions to civic spaces, commercial buildings…