A six-storey building being refurbished as a four-star hotel collapsed yesterday in central Madrid, killing three construction workers and the project’s architect, Reuters reports. The site workers were identified as…

Eiffage Énergie Systèmes, a subsidiary of France’s Eiffage, has had a busy summer in Spain. It already has 5,000 staff there, and annual revenues topping €1bn, but it wants to…

German consultant Drees & Sommer has been appointed design partner for a €611m advanced semiconductor R&D facility and utility buildings for digital technology firm Imec in Málaga, Spain. The project…

The European Commission has approved an investment of €202m for a particle accelerator in the Grenada region of southern Spain, around a quarter of the expected total construction cost. The…

Ferrovial will build three photovoltaic plants in Spain’s Murcia region for TotalEnergies and Soltec, and will operate them for the first two years. The plants will have a total capacity…

French tunneller Bessac is using Japanese pump technology to dewater the land-based sections of a 2GW, high-voltage power line that will cross the Bay of Biscay between France and Spain.…

Spain has approved a €60m grant from EU funds to build a hydrogen-powered steel mill, which the World Economic Forum has described as one of the “five most important industrial…

After a 35-year campaign, Barcelona’s most famous architect, Antoni Gaudí, designer of the still-unfinished La Sagrada Família, has officially been made a candidate for sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.…

Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports.  The deal was…

Three Spanish contractors are on the starting grid for a contract to build an F1 circuit in Madrid, according to business new site Economia Digital. Contractors Dragados, Obrascón Huarte Lain…

A team comprising Spanish contractors Ferrovial, Gyocivil and Licuas has won a €98m deal to renovate a 70,000 sq m section of the Paseo de la Castellana in Madrid. The…

Spanish developer Neinor Homes will invest €35m building four apartment blocks in the town of Mungia, a former industrial area in Spain’s Basque Country. The company hopes its 137 apartments…

Energy companies BP and Iberdrola have begun work on Spain’s largest green hydrogen plant in Valencia. The €70m plant will be sited on a 20,000-sq-m plot next to BP’s Castellón…

French rail engineer Alstom has signed a contract with Metro de Madrid to create the city’s first driverless route. Line 6, the one chosen, runs for 24km and accommodates 400,000…

Spain’s second-largest oil company will start work on part of the Andalusian Green Hydrogen Valley scheme, which will install enough electrolysers to turn 2GW of wind and solar energy into…

German tunnel specialist Herrenknecht will study the feasibility of building a high-speed rail tunnel between Morocco and Spain, Arabian Gulf Business Insight (AGBI) reports. Spain and Morocco have been considering…

Swiss energy company Edisun has announced plans to build a 941MW solar park northwest of Madrid to provide power for AI datacentres. The Fuencarral project is intended to meet the…

Marta Serrano, Spain’s secretary general for land transportation, has blamed children’s television programmes such as Paw Patrol and Peppa Pig for the lack of women taking up construction jobs, because…