Finnish modular builder Admares has announced plans to build a $750m “mega factory” in the city of Waycross in southeast Georgia. The 2.5 million sq ft factory will create an…

The 1.6GW Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor began producing electricity yesterday, 18 years after the project broke ground and €8bn over its original €3bn budget. OL3 is the largest nuclear…

Finland has begun erecting a 3km-long pilot stretch of its planned barbed-wire-topped fence along its border with Russia. Ground preparation began on 28 February and work on the pilot stretch…

The drive to normalise wood as a primary building material in Europe continues with the start of a mass timber commercial building in Helsinki, Finland, developed by Finnish pension insurer,…

Norwegian company Blastr Green Steel plans to invest €4bn in a Finnish steel mill with an integrated hydrogen production facility, the Bloomberg news agency reports. Blastr signed a letter of…

The government of Helsinki has announced the winners of a competition to create a “new cultural heart” in the Finnish capital. The plan is to turn more than 8ha of…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a design-and-build contract worth €56m in Houston and will invest €45m in a residential project (pictured) in Helsinki. In the US, Skanska will work with…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won two building contracts, a residential project in Finland and a school in Norway, worth a total of €74m. The €38m residential development project (pictured above)…

Finland’s biggest construction company YIT has halted investment in Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.