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…

A French court has ordered work to stop on a motorway in the southwest of the country after ruling that it would cause too much environmental damage – despite the…

A former construction consultant for McDonald’s has been charged with bribery after he allegedly accepted a US$10,000 watch. The case has been brought by Hong Kong’s Independent Commission Against Corruption…

A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the suspension of the $1bn Kensington Expressway Project in Buffalo because the state’s department of transportation (NYSDOT) did not conduct an…

A contractor hired for a radiation clean-up project at a former shipyard in San Francisco has agreed to pay $97m after a 12-year legal battle. According to a Securities and…

The owner of two construction companies in Massachusetts has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervision after being found guilty of tax and mail fraud.…

Work on company’s first manufacturing site in Brazil shut down; Contract with Jinjiang Construction Brazil terminated. Brazilian authorities have rescued 163 Chinese workers being held in “conditions analogous to slavery”…

The Dutch Public Prosecutions Office has fined contractor Bam €30,000 over “potentially irregular payments” made during a development in Africa. The potential irregularity was discovered during an investigation into another…

Mauricio Baiense, the owner and operator of Contract Framing Builders (CFB), a Massachusetts construction company, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud and lying under oath…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has allowed China Railway Construction Engineering (CRCE), a state-owned company, to be reinstated for bidding on bank-financed projects provided it meets guidelines and co-operates with…

A Serbian court on Saturday ordered 10 people, including a former minister, to be detained for up to 30 days over the collapse of a concrete awning at Novi Sad…

A partial roof collapse at a recently renovated train station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad on Friday killed 14 people and seriously injured three. A six-year-old girl was…

The Chinese contractor who built the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas has appealed the New York State Supreme Court judge’s ruling earlier this month that it owed the resort’s…

The New York State Supreme Court judge who ruled this month that contractor China Construction America (CCA) owed damages worth $1.6bn to the developer of the Baha Mar resort in…

A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the subsidiary of a major Chinese contractor to pay the developer of the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas damages of…