The southeastern German city of Nuremberg has created what it describes as a blueprint for greener public construction contracts by requiring zero-emission operations in the tender process. The approach has…

The Asia Pacific subsidiary of American-headquartered road construction company Verde Resources has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with building materials producer Highway International to collaborate on a pilot programme…

Foster + Partners is part of a consortium that has won a £4m, three-year research grant from the European Innovation Council’s Pathfinder funding programme. The SWIFT-BUILD – shorthand for Swarm-based…

Low-carbon cement is being used for the structure and foundation of the TM Tower in Benidorm, south eastern Spain, due to become one of Europe’s tallest residential buildings, rising 200m…

Volvo Construction Equipment and Hitachi Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote zero‑emission construction sites with electric machinery, clean power supplies, energy management and system integration. The…

A team of Swiss materials giant Holcim, Swedish startup Paebbl and German contractor Goldbeck has poured the first industrial floor slab made with carbon dioxide. The slab poured for an…

Berlin-headquartered company Ecoworks has won a €23m contract to provide a green renovation of 192 apartments in 12 buildings in Hagen, Northrhein Westfalia to reduce their energy demand by 36%.…

A report in the British scientific journal Nature has found that the construction industry’s global carbon footprint has doubled over the past three decades and is on track to double…

In a bid to match the electricity European customers use to power their phones and computers, Apple says it will add 650MW solar and wind projects in Europe by 2030.…

Microsoft is backing green cement manufacturer Fortera in a bid to accelerate the adoption of low-carbon building materials across its global datacentre operations. The strategic investment, made through the company’s…

Vinci Energies has signed an agreement to buy Romanian electrical infrastructure engineer EnergoBit, which specialises in electrical substations, overhead transmission and distribution lines, and network monitoring and automation. Founded in…

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has published a report showing how construction firms can pair their sustainability targets with the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) to show…

Spain has approved a €60m grant from EU funds to build a hydrogen-powered steel mill, which the World Economic Forum has described as one of the “five most important industrial…

On April 16th, 2025, the Trump administration conducted a targeted attack on offshore wind in the US. The Bureau of Ocean Energy management (BOEM) issued a formal and meticulously worded…

Volvo Construction Equipment has joined an industry group – termed a “roundtable” – set up to promote emissions-free construction machinery. It was established by two Dutch associations, Emissionfree Network Infrastructure…

The Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA) has unveiled what it calls the world’s first global system for rating the carbon footprint of cement and concrete. It says the scorecard…

Austria’s Strabag has appointed Stefan Kratochwill as its new chief executive with immediate effect following the sudden death of its former chief executive, Klemens Haselsteiner, on 17 January. Haselsteiner, aged…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will lend Spanish utility Naturgy €1bn to increase renewable power generation by 2.3GW, enough to power over a million homes. Naturgy will use the money…