UK-headquartered consulting engineer Mott MacDonald has been appointed owner’s engineer for what’s being called the world’s first commercial-scale terminal for importing liquid hydrogen (LH₂) at the port of Amsterdam in…

Construction of the 165,815-sq-m Yidan Center, containing areas for academic research, cultural events and exhibitions in Shenzhen, has topped out. The building’s design by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is inspired…

Using one compact crane, Mammoet helped put a four-storey, 9,100-sq-m commercial lab building together with prefabricated steel and concrete elements in under two years. Developed by Dura Vermeer in the…

Cyprus is offering a €10m incentive package to investors who take on the development of a new science and technology park in Limassol, the hub of the country’s burgeoning ICT…

After six construction seasons squeezed into Antarctica’s brief summer, the British Antarctic Survey’s new research support facility, the Discovery Building, is coming into operational use at the UK’s Rothera Research…

A team of scientists at China’s Nanjing University has developed a technique for increasing the strength of wood by removing the hollow tubes that run through its cellulose structure.  Called…

China plans to drill 15km into the Earth’s surface to hunt for fossil fuels and to learn about the structure of the earth’s crust, South China Morning Post reports. The…

The city government of Hangzhou in eastern China has switched on the first centrifuge at the world’s most powerful gravity simulation machine, South China Morning Post reports. Known as “Chief”…

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) workers have arrived at Rothera, the UK’s largest research station on the continent, ready to remove the accumulated snow and begin the summer construction season. Those…

A team of Chinese researchers is exploring the feasibility of producing building materials on Mars by melting its soil. The possibility of “in-situ resource generation” is being investigated by scientists…

Skanska has completed the $89m makeover of the University of New Hampshire’s Biological Sciences Building, Spaulding Hall, in Durham, New Hampshire. Designed by architects Ellenzweig to be LEED Silver certified,…

Colorado-based contractor Hensel Phelps has been selected as construction manager and general contractor for a Department of Energy project at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, part of America’s…

Turner Construction has won three contracts from three US colleges: the University of California Merced, the University of Kentucky and Case Western Reserve University. In California, Turner will provide construction…

A consortium led by contractor Turner Construction has won a contract to build an engineering and science building at Case Western Reserve University, a private research faculty in Cleveland, Ohio.…

UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced plans to build a $300m cell therapy facility in the city of Rockville, Maryland. The 84,000 sq ft site will research the immune system’s…

Officials at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, or Cern, yesterday revealed more details of their plans to build a particle accelerator that is at least three times longer than…

Zaha Hadid Architects’ 100,000 sq m art centre has been completed in Guangdong’s Aviation New City in southeast China. The Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Arts Centre includes a 1,200-seat theatre, a…

Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm has unveiled a dome-shaped auditorium made from precision-engineered cross-laminated timber (CLT). Just over 12m high, with a diameter of 21.6m, the…