The Hainan Science Museum has opened in Haikou, the capital of China’s southern Hainan Province. Inspired by cloud formations and the local monsoon rain forests, the 46,528-sq-m structure on the…

International certification body DNV has issued a Statement of Compliance for Bouygues Travaux Publics’ OO-Star concrete floating wind-turbine foundation. Bouygues said the certification will help commercialise the concept, which secured…

Danish maritime architect Mast and construction company BIK bouw are proposing to build a floating neighbourhood at a disused dock in the centre of Rotterdam. The plan for the Spoorweghaven…

Norway has again proposed offering subsidies worth some $3.3bn to encourage bids in the country’s first tender for a floating wind farm, Reuters reports. The figure appeared yesterday in the…

French banks have agreed to loan a German renewables company more than €50m towards to cost of building Europe’s largest floating solar power plant. Berlin-based Q Energy is planning to…

Ferrovial has installed a 1.7MW floating solar array on the lower reservoir of the century-old Torrelaguna mini hydroelectric plant near Madrid for the city’s water company, Canal de Isabel II…

Japanese startup N-Ark has announced plans to build a futuristic floating city built on sea-cooled data centres and cutting-edge medical care, and has launched a consortium to realise its vision.…