News Liebherr to build logistics site for the Americas in Mississippi German-Swiss equipment maker Liebherr has acquired 48ha of land in Tupelo, Mississippi, and plans to use it for a distribution centre and company campus. The aim is to stock and…
News New technology aids 22-hour concrete pour on $7bn Shiziyang Bridge Chinese equipment maker Sany says it has made a technical breakthrough in its work on the Shiziyang road bridge over the Pearl River delta in Guangdong. The $7bn crossing will…
News Dutch company pays €1.78m to end Crimean bridge prosecution Dutch construction equipment supplier Dieseko has agreed to pay €1.78m to settle a case brought by the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service (NPPS) for selling machinery and technical assistance to Russian…
Companies Holcim buys Belgian recycler in quest to ‘build cities from cities’ Swiss cement-maker Holcim has closed the acquisition of Mark Desmedt, a Belgian firm that specialises in the reuse of construction materials. The company said the purchase would advance its goal…
News Vattenfall signs up to buy Cemvision’s near-zero emission cement European energy company Vattenfall has signed a letter of intent with Cemvision for the development and future supply of Cemvision’s near-zero emission cement. They said Cemvision’s new cement has the…
News World’s first clinker-free wind turbine foundation Hoffmann Green Cement and green energy developer The Valorem Group have poured the world’s first wind turbine foundation made from 0% clinker decarbonised concrete. It’s for the Plaine des Moulins…
News Central Asia’s first printed house can withstand earthquakes Central Asia’s first 3D-printed house has been completed in Almaty, southern Kazakhstan. The 100 sq m building is made from extra-strong concrete that will able to withstand earthquakes measuring up…
News Bamboo firm wins €250,000 bio-material prize Built by Nature, a grant-awarding body backed by charitable foundations, has announced the winners of its inaugural competition to stimulate the use of biologically-based construction materials. The winner of the…
News French low-carbon cement firm launches first overseas plant in Saudi Arabia In Saudi Arabia, construction has begun on the first overseas plant for Hoffmann Green Cement, a French start-up selling lower-carbon cement. Founded in 2014 and with €6m in revenues last…
News Arup launches global guide on building safely with timber Arup has published a global guide on how to build fire-safe mass timber structures to encourage more use of the low-carbon alternative to concrete and steel. The consultancy said it…
News Robotic factory to make 160 ashlar blocks a day for Turin-Lyon tunnel Webuild is setting up France’s first robotic ashlar-block factory to line the inside of Lot 2 of the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail tunnel. The company said the plant’s intensive automation will…
News Chinese engineers test world’s first boring-and-blasting machine Engineers at Tsinghua University in Beijing and China Railway Science and Industry Group have developed a prototype tunnel boring machine (TBM) that also blasts rock. The unit has passed tunnelling…
News Webuild to construct factory in Italy to repair and upgrade tunnel boring machines Italian contractor Webuild has announced plans to build a factory in Terni, Umbria, to repair its 58 tunnel boring machines (TBM). The machines will be serviced after they finish a…
News 10 construction companies join forces to reduce carbon emissions Ten companies in the construction sector have formed an alliance to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint. The Community of Sustainable Equipment Players, or the Communauté des Acteurs du Matériel…
News Carbon-neutral tile factory to ‘set new standards for Europe’ Austrian materials producer Wienerberger says its carbon-neutral concrete roof-tile factory in Hungary will “set a new standard across Europe”. The €30m, 7,300-sq-m plant in Hejopapi will be fully automated, with…
Innovation Engineering carbon out of Australia’s construction business In Australia, a voluntary alliance of tier 1 contractors, government agencies, specialist subcontractors, engineering firms, cost consultants, architects, and material manufacturers – representing the whole construction supply chain – are…
Innovation New lower-carbon cement plant captures CO2 from normal cement plant A new company that makes lower-carbon cement from the carbon dioxide captured from the flue of a conventional cement plant has opened its first facility in Redding, California. The new…
News Aecon and Concordia team up for low-carbon construction Toronto-listed contractor Aecon has joined Montreal’s Concordia University to research new low-carbon construction materials through a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU). They’ll research low-carbon concrete while exploring opportunities for pilot…