Disappointing start to 2025 for Indonesia’s new capital
Feb 26, 2025 · Indonesia’s faltering, $35bn plan to build a brand new capital city on the island of Borneo started 2025 with a reduction in government funding and a snub from the country’s …
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The company behind Poland’s national transportation upgrade – Centralny Port Komunikacyjny (CPK) – is now seeking a contractor to build the 450,000-sq-m terminal building for a new …
Three killed at Bechtel’s LNG project in Texas
Apr 30, 2025 · Three workers have been killed and two injured after scaffolding collapsed at the Bechtel Port Arthur Liquified Natural Gas project in Texas. A spokesperson from the Jefferson …
Webuild awarded $147m compensation for Argentina project
May 6, 2025 · The government of Argentina has been ordered to pay Italy’s Webuild $147m in compensation for breach of contract over a road and bridge project completed in 2004. The 28 …
Bidding opens for Saudi Arabia’s 2km-tall tower
Mar 21, 2025 · Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has invited contractors to bid for the project management role on a 19 sq km “North Pole” business district in Riyadh, which will …
Why 2025 is the year AI will revolutionise construction
Apr 16, 2025 · This is a major change. For one example, AI can be used to monitor a live video feed of a construction site to spot safety hazards. For another, it can analyse detailed 3D …
Microsoft pauses new data centre construction
Apr 11, 2025 · Cloud operations president Noelle Walsh said in a LinkedIn post that the company had doubled its data centre capacity in the last three years, added more in 2024 than in any …
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The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has awarded Sweden’s Skanska a $435m (NOK 4.4 billion) contract to replace an Arctic section of Norway’s main north-south road, the E6 highway.
Microsoft delays further phases of AI data centre construction
Jan 14, 2025 · Microsoft has paused construction work for its planned second phase of a data centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The …
Schneider Electric to spend $700m on US expansion
Apr 1, 2025 · French automation and energy company Schneider Electric says it will spend $700m in the US over the next two years developing its manufacturing capacity, digitalisation …