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…

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…