A new five-storey development in Almere, Netherlands built with laminated veneer lumber (LVL) from Finnish company Metsä Group has been touted as a prototype for meeting the high demand for…

Material manufacturer Paebbl and Dutch builder Heijmans have installed a 7m-long pedestrian bridge in Rosmalen, the Netherlands, which the team describes as the world’s first bridge built with CO₂-neutral concrete.…

Plans have been announced for “The Erven”, a 519-home timber neighbourhood in Hoofddorp, 20km south west of Amsterdam in the Lincolnpark development area. The cross-laminated timber-frame buildings will be insulated…

The city of Rotterdam has approved the Bluezone Offices, a 47,000-sq-m development that its architect MVRDV says is the biggest commercial building currently set for construction in the Netherlands. The…

American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly plans to build a $3bn manufacturing facility at the Leiden Bio Science Park in Katwijk, the Netherlands. It will have advanced technologies for making oral…

Construction has begun on The Sax, a saxophone-shaped residential development in Rotterdam, touted as the Netherlands’ “most densely occupied area” by architect MVRDV. The Sax will have 916 apartments across…

Danish 3D printer maker Cobod and Technical University (TU) Braunschweig have unveiled a construction robot that prints concrete and sprays shotcrete with a robotic arm. The arm can also sand…

A Dutch robotics company founded last year has seen its concrete drilling robots put into active use on two major projects recently. BauBot Services, a subsidiary of international fastenings specialist…

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…

A group of investors and construction companies have put forward plans to build a new town on the site of a Tata Steel plant at IJmuiden, near the coastal village…

Dutch grid operator Liander has warned that 317 of its construction projects are at risk because the government has delayed a decision on how to combat nitrogen pollution, the NL…

Dutch companies MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have been selected to design a renovation of the  St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, south east Netherlands, into a public swimming pool…

Machinery maker the Wirtgen Group, part of John Deere Construction & Forestry, recently tested its Generation X2 round-shank pick for asphalt milling on a busy Dutch motorway against its newer…

Dutch architect MVRDV has announced that Portlantis, a 3,500 sq m exhibition centre that showcases the work of the Port of Rotterdam, has been completed. The building is formed from…

The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is to spend €200m building a laboratory and a cleanroom to support the Netherlands’ semiconductor industry. The 5,000-sq-m building will house labs and classrooms.…

Beijing-based Mad Architects has announced that its design for the Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam will shortly open to the public. Commissioned by the Droom en Daad (Dreams Come…

In response to a worsening housing crisis, seven Dutch municipalities are moving ahead with plans to create flexible districts with prefabricated mobile homes, dubbed “flexcities”. The districts will consist of…

Heineken has begun building a €45m research centre near its brewery in Zoeterwoude, the Netherlands. When complete next summer, the “Dr HP Heineken Centre” will cover 8,800 sq m and…