Swedish contractor Peab has won a €21m contract to rebuild and enlarge the town hall in Sweden’s Strängnäs municipality. The customer is Strängnäs Fastighets AB, the municipality’s property management business.…

The Swedish arm of German offshore wind company Skyborn Renewables has submitted an application to the Swedish government to build a giant wind farm off Sweden’s northeastern coast. The 3GW…

Ten companies in the construction sector have formed an alliance to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.   The Community of Sustainable Equipment Players, or the Communauté des Acteurs du Matériel…

Researchers from Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology are working on a method of using textile-reinforced concrete for the creation of vaulted structures. The team’s work builds on existing work in…

Swedish concrete-element maker Heidelberg Materials Precast Contiga and Finnish company Metsä Wood have developed a wall panel made from layers of concrete, insulation, and load-bearing laminated veneer lumber. They say…

Texas engineer Fluor has been selected to fill engineering, procurement and construction management roles at a hydrogen-powered steelworks in northern Sweden. Work on the H2 Green Steel site in Boden…

Swedish energy company Vattenfall has hired Vinci subsidiary Nuvia to decommission two reactors at its Ringhals nuclear power plant. Nuvia will take down unit 1, a boiling water reactor shut…

Swedish renewable energy developer OX2 has teamed up with Ingka Investments, the owner of the Ikea furniture chain, to develop the Neptunus wind and hydrogen hub off Sweden’s southeast coast.…

Five workers died in Stockholm Monday after the construction-site elevator they were in fell 20m to the ground. The incident happened on a site in Sundbyberg, in the north of…

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…

Skanska has won a contract to build “Malmö Designer Village”, billed as Scandinavia’s biggest outlet mall, near Malmö in Skanska’s home country, Sweden. The village will be a 25-minute drive…

Sweden has set out a roadmap to build two large nuclear reactors by 2035 and 10 others by 2045, some of which may be of the small modular type. The…

Sweco with Spanish partner TYPSA have won a $23.5m contract to provide site supervision, works coordination, and expert support services for a new 11.5km metro line in Stockholm. The new…

Swedish developer Atrium Ljungberg plans to build what it says will be the world’s largest wooden city in Sickla, a former industrial quarter in southern Stockholm. Set on 250,000 sq…

Stockholm developer OX2 and Ikea owner Ingka Investments have set a target date of 2027 to begin work on their Triton offshore wind farm in Sweden. The announcement came after…

Danish energy company Ørsted broke ground yesterday on Europe’s largest e-methanol plant in northern Sweden. The “FlagshipOne” project in Örnsköldsvik was originally developed by the Swedish e-fuels company Liquid Wind.…

Swedish renewables developer OX2 has begun the development of an ambitious offshore energy hub in the southern Baltic. The “Neptunus” scheme will generate up to 1.9GW of power, to be…

The Swedish city of Gothenburg is getting its first skyscraper, the 245m Karlatornet tower designed by US architect Skidmore Owens & Merrill, set to be the centrepiece of a new…