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.…

Thai prime minister Ms Paetongtarn Shinawatra yesterday announced a thorough investigation into the approval, design, and materials involved in a 32-storey, under-construction office tower in Bangkok that disintegrated in Friday’s…

An international design team involving UK architect Foster + Partners and engineering consultant Buro Happold has unveiled a masterplan for restoring the ancient Turkish city of Antakya – Antioch in…

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…

Construction machinery maker Doosan Bobcat donated €800,00 last year to help small businesses in Turkey get going again after violent earthquakes struck in February. They destroyed or damaged some 240,000…

US-based Hill International is project managing the expansion of Assan Port in İskenderun, southern Turkey. İskenderun was among the cities devastated by the major earthquake in Turkey and Syria in…

The earthquakes of 6 February caused around $34.2bn in physical damage in Turkey.

Saudi Arabia has mandated that all new residential development in the kingdom will be built to withstand earthquakes. According to the Saudi Gazette, the housing ministry has instructed engineering and…

Nato yesterday shipped the first 600 of more than 1,000 containers to be used for temporary housing in earthquake-devastated Turkey. Nato said the containers are normally used as deployable headquarters…