France’s Vinci has won a €144m contract from Jamaica’s National Water Commission to renovate and develop the drinking water network in the northwest of the country. Vinci’s role on the…

The 3.6ha Sydney Fish Market redevelopment in Blackwattle Bay is due to open on 19th January, coinciding with the Lunar New Year. Dubbed the world’s biggest fish market, the development…

Skanska has been selected by the Cox Science Center and Aquarium to deliver a major expansion of its campus in West Palm Beach, including an 86,000-sq-ft, two-story Hall of Science.…

China’s government said on 31 December December 31st that it will spend $42bn on transportation, water and energy projects in its latest five-year plan. The money will go towards building…

Norwegian architect Snøhetta has won a design competition for a 18,000-sq-m art gallery on the confluence of the Qiantang river and Hangzhou’s central water axis. The meeting of the water…

Webuild has installed the first of 35 “mega caissons” for the Port of Genoa’s new breakwater. The concrete structure stands 33m tall, equivalent to an 11-storey building. It’s 67m long…

A section of a 2.25-mile-long series of interconnected parks that act as a flood defence in Manhattan, New York, has opened to the public. It’s officially called the East Side…

Singapore has added 800 hectares – 8 sq km – of dry, below-sea-level land to its constrained footprint with its first “polder” at the northwestern tip of Pulau Tekong. With…

Webber, an American subsidiary of Spain’s Ferrovial, has won two contracts worth a total of $721m to build water facilities in Austin and Fort Worth, Texas. In Austin, Webber has…

As presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet to negotiate Ukraine’s future, Ukrainians themselves are racing to fix vital infrastructure destroyed in Russia’s 2022 invasion. In just five months, one…

Construction has begun on the world’s largest hydropower dam, a $167bn Chinese project on the Yarlung Zangbo River, according to state news agency Xinhua. Five cascade hydropower stations will produce…

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…