A group of state and private sector partners in China launched a project to build an offshore wind-powered data centre under the sea off Shanghai on Tuesday. The idea is…

The World Bank has approved a $250m credit to fund the first phase of what could be the biggest hydroelectric project in the world: Inga 3 in the Democratic Republic…

Danish maritime architect Mast and construction company BIK bouw are proposing to build a floating neighbourhood at a disused dock in the centre of Rotterdam. The plan for the Spoorweghaven…

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.…

Dutch companies MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have been selected to design a renovation of the  St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, south east Netherlands, into a public swimming pool…

Mexico will invest $6.1bn on 17 water projects in regions hit by drought and flooding over the next six years, news website Aquínoticias reports. The country is increasingly prone to…

Vinci Construction subsidiary Sogea-Satom has won a €92.4m contract in Uganda to update and extend the Kampala metropolitan region’s water supply network. Financed by the French development agency, AFD, the…

China has given a green light to the construction of a deep-sea research facility in the South China Sea, South China Morning Post reports. Known in the research community as…

A consortium led by Vinci subsidiaries has won a €183m contract to build a protected channel in the Seine River estuary to give river boats access to the port of…

A team led by Saudi Arabian developer Neom has announced plans to research new forms of concrete, including ones that incorporate seawater, plastics, fine sand and construction waste. The NovusCrete…

The kingdom of Jordan signed an agreement yesterday with a French-Egyptian consortium to build one of the world’s largest desalination plants, the New Arab news site reports. The Aqaba Amman…

As wildfires rage in desiccated southern California around Los Angeles, the state is looking to hire a construction manager at-risk (CMAR) for a $3bn project to build a large reservoir…

Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has begun an amphibious operation to replace five crucial bridge decks at Amsterdam’s main Centraal train station that have reached the end of their design life. Working…

Spanish utility Iberdrola is planning the largest pumped storage plant in Europe. The Conso II project, earmarked for Ourense, Galicia, will cost more than €1.5bn, website Enerdata reports. The plant…

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…

A joint venture of Jacobs and McCarthy has won a $160m contract to improve groundwater desalination capacity in southern California, where over-extraction of groundwater in the first half of the…

Municipal authority Metro Vancouver has picked a joint venture of Aecom and Jacobs to provide preliminary engineering services for the $7.05bn (C$9.9bn) upgrade of Vancouver’s Iona Island Wastewater Treatment Plant.…

As Morocco suffers its worst drought for 40 years, French water specialist Veolia has agreed in principle to build a desalination plant near the capital, Rabat. Procured as a public-private…