A Polish contractor bidding for a road maintenance project in the southeastern Małopolska region has had its abnormally low bid excluded by the country’s National Appeals Chamber because its explanation…

Donald Trump justified his global tariff carpet-bombing campaign by saying it would encourage high-tech manufacturers to build factories in the US. But the raid led by US Immigration and Customs…

The president of one of Thailand’s biggest contractors, Italian-Thai Development (ITD), has been indicted along with 22 other suspects over the collapse in March of a Bangkok office tower under…

A construction boss in the US could face prison after being charged with failing to pay years of employee payroll taxes, scheming to defraud a construction contractor of millions of…

Ireland’s Health and Safety Authority (HSA) shut down a construction site in Co. Kildare last week, citing “clear, ongoing danger to workers’ lives”. The HSA secured a High Court order…

A court in Ireland last week fined Colas Contracting Limited €270,000 following the death of a worker on a paving project in 2020. Judge Ronan Munro of Tralee Circuit Court…

No one welcomes construction disputes, but when the initiator is the President of the United States, it’s even less welcome. Last Thursday, President Donald Trump’s director of the Office of…

The owner of a New York rigging contractor was sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation after pleading guilty to stealing $169,500 from seven of his employees.…

A Hong Kong contractor fighting to keep its licence to build in the special administrative region after a spate of site deaths has been kicked off its four remaining projects.…

The owner of a nightclub in the Dominican Republic whose roof collapsed during a concert in April, killing 236 people, was arrested yesterday and charged with involuntary homicide, The New…

A construction worker died in a gruesome incident at a construction site in central Florida on Wednesday, and a fellow worker has been charged with second-degree manslaughter. The men were…

A Singaporean builder has been fined just under S$4.3m (US$3.3m) for colluding with a Chinese firm to rig bids for community-centre projects worth some S$56m in the city state. The…

The Finnish Competition and Consumer Authority has announced that it is investigating a number of companies operating in the country’s asphalt market. It said it was looking at whether the…

The president of one of Thailand’s biggest construction groups has surrendered to police investigating the collapse of a high-rise under construction in Bangkok. The disaster, which took the lives of…

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.…

US law firm Berger Montague has filed a class action antitrust lawsuit in Chicago district court against an alleged “cartel” of some of the country’s biggest construction equipment rental companies,…

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…

While the hunt for survivors continues in Bangkok at the site of the under-construction office building that disintegrated in Friday’s earthquake, police say they’ll charge four Chinese nationals who worked…