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Published on: 15 May, 2024
The UK needs 250,000 extra construction workers by 2028 if it wants to meet demand
Published on: 15 May, 2024
The US government has announced that it is raising tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods, including on materials and machinery used in the construction industry
Published on: 15 May, 2024
The high rate of suicide in the construction industry is a ‘shameful statistic’ but the stigma around it is finally being broken down
Published on: 14 May, 2024
A total of 32 people, thought to be construction workers, have now been confirmed dead following a building collapse in South Africa
Published on: 14 May, 2024
Europe’s construction industry continues to suffer a labour imbalance, with almost half the occupations classified as being in shortage in the region belonging in the sector
Published on: 13 May, 2024
Engineering, management and development consultancy Mott MacDonald has bought Australian consultancy firm Merz Consulting
Published on: 13 May, 2024
Webuild has completed excavation works on the Roseto 1 natural tunnel, part of Megalot 3 of the Ionian Trunk Road (SS 106) in Italy, worth around €1 billion (US$1.1 billion)
Published on: 10 May, 2024
A strong Indian economy and the strengthening of physical and digital infrastructure in the country has helped the country’s biggest contractor, Larsen & Toubro to grow further
Published on: 09 May, 2024
Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has announced the construction of a second major water theme park for Qiddiya City to the south west of Riyadh
Published on: 09 May, 2024
Austrian-based Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) has dropped a plan to buy a €1.5 billion (US$1.6 billion) stake in Austrian construction group Strabag from Russian shareholders, reportedly amid pressure from the US
Published on: 08 May, 2024
Welcome to another edition of Construction Briefing’s Friday round-up where you bring some of the biggest stories you might have missed from the past week
Published on: 08 May, 2024
German car manufacturer BMW has started construction of an €800 million (US$859 million) high-voltage battery assembly plant
Published on: 08 May, 2024
Skanska has blamed an SEK 370 million (US$34 million) charge arising from problems on a UK project for a 33% fall in operating profit in its construction business in Q1 2024
Published on: 07 May, 2024
Vinci has appointed Pierre Anjolras as the new chief operating officer of the French construction and concessions giant
Published on: 03 May, 2024
Canadian engineering firm Stantec has bought its UK-based engineering design rival Hydrock, in a move that it said would strengthen its UK offering
Published on: 03 May, 2024
Global architectural, advisory, consulting and construction engineering company Egis has acquired UK-based cost and project management consultancy Thomas & Adamson
Published on: 03 May, 2024
US-based Granite recorded a year-on-year increase in revenue in its construction operations of 18% in Q1 2024, helped by better weather and a higher level of committed and awarded projects
Published on: 03 May, 2024
Italian construction group Webuild and its US subsidiary Lane have presented the design for a new cable-stayed bridge to replace the collapsed Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, USA.
Published on: 02 May, 2024
An Ohio-based construction company has agreed to pay $99,000 to settle a claims of sex discrimination and retaliation in a lawsuit filed by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
Published on: 02 May, 2024
Welcome to another edition of Construction Briefing’s Friday round-up where you bring some of the biggest stories you might have missed from the past week