Swiss contractor Implenia has won a raft of deals worth $496m, including research, residential, modernisation and school construction projects. At the University of Bern, the company will build a medical…

Swiss telecoms company Leuk TDC has turned two obsolete satellite dishes on its land into sun-tracking solar power plants to help power its data centre. Building technology specialist CKW installed…

What’s claimed to be the world’s tallest printed structure was unveiled this week in the southeastern Swiss mountain village of Mulegns. The 30m-tall “Tor Alva” – which means “White Tower”…

Switzerland and the UK have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build a direct rail link between the two countries. The countries’ transport departments have set up a working…

A buildings-in-a-building renovation is underway at an historic airfield in the Swiss capital, Zurich, that will bring a cavernous, 100-year-old hangar back to life again for modern purposes. Established in…

India has signed memorandums of understanding with the governments of Spain and Switzerland aimed at increasing the number of foreign companies working on its rail modernisation projects. Indian Railways signed…

Swiss engineers Frutiger and Implenia have won a contract worth $477m for work on the Sisikon Tunnel, which will form part of the Axenstrasse road along the shores of Lake…

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…

Swiss manufacturer ABB has teamed up with a UK startup developing a system for generating electricity in old mine shafts. Called GraviStore, the system drops heavy weights attached to cables…

A team at Switzerland’s ETH Zürich university has unveiled an autonomous excavator that can build dry ​stone walls from randomly shaped boulders and concrete rubble. It picks rocks from a…

Science Gateway, an education facility at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, has opened to the public. Designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Science Gateway’s tubular structure…

Basel-headquartered architecture firm Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the completion of its first Paris project, a 10,500-sq-m, 104-unit social housing development over five floors in the 15th arrondissement. Begun in…

CSC Costruzioni, the Swiss subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild, is leading the team carrying out a €157m road renovation contract in Switzerland’s southern Ticino canton. CSC Costruzioni holds a 35% stake…

Basel-headquartered architect Christ & Gantenbein is celebrating the construction of a new bridge it designed over the Aare River serving the town of Aarau in northern Switzerland. The completion ends…