Skanska has completed the $38m, 45,000-sq-ft expansion of Newsome High School in Lithia, Hillsborough County, Florida, to a design by Hepner Architects. The project involved building a new school auditorium…

The Indian government has agreed to provide around $4.6m for the construction of 10 healthcare, education, and cultural facilities in Nepal. The so-called “High Impact Community Development Projects”, or HICDPs,…

Swedish contractor Skanska has signed a $47m contract to demolish and reconstruct parts of an elementary school in Florida. Osceola County hired Skanska to knock down portions of the Reedy…

UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a contract worth around $60m to build a stormwater capture system under a high school in La Puente, California. As construction manager at-risk, it will…

Skanska’s programme management group, Skanska Integrated Solutions, has finished the new Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston’s Chinatown in time for the 2024 school year, earning praise from the city.…

UK-headquartered contractor Balfour Beatty this week announced four education-related projects in the US together worth $338m. Three are residential and hospitality projects in Florida worth $168m, and the fourth is…

The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) will join other development lenders to finance a $65m programme to improve schools in Sierra Leone. The work will involve extending…

Local authorities in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Oblast have begun building 10 underground schools to protect children against Russian missile strikes, Ukrainian news site Euromaidan Press reports. Parts of the oblast are…

A Dutch consortium has won a design competition for the Wisperweide school in Weesp, a city southwest of Amsterdam. This will be the first in a series of up to…

Construction has begun on Project Nore, a €250m development to fund seven school buildings in counties Tipperary, Kilkenny, Westmeath and Kildare. A joint venture between ABM Design and Build and…

Skanska has completed the $256m, 451,000-sq-ft renovation and extension of the Belmont Middle and High School in Massachusetts, designed by Perkins & Will. The new four-floor high school will accommodate…

Hong Kong-based architect 10 Design has won a competition to design an ideal 74,000-sq-m primary school in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, just south of Shanghai. 10 Design came up…

In Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, a school complex is rising that blends in visually with the country’s famous Sermitsiaq massif that towers over the city. Danish architects KHR explains…

This week GCR reported on Europe’s first 3D printed school taking shape in Lviv, western Ukraine. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint for getting more than 5 million children…

Qatar has unveiled five cultural venues at the 18th Venice architecture biennale. The exhibition, called Building a Creative Nation, displays renderings, studies, models and video of: Art Mill Museum, designed…

A humanitarian project is underway to print a 506.5-sq-m primary school in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, with completion expected in weeks. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint…

The Circlewood consortium, a collective of architects, engineers, builders and researchers, has designed a modular building concept that will act as the basis for up to 30 schools in Amsterdam.…

The Caucasian state of Georgia has allocated $500m to build 300 kindergartens and renovate 585 more. Some $38m has already been spent as part of the project’s first stage, which…