World’s biggest crane takes shape in the Netherlands
FIXEDD Heavy-lift specialist Mammoet has started putting together the world’s biggest and strongest land-based crane at its Westdorpe facility…
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World Bank allocates $1bn extra for Pakistan’s biggest hydro scheme
The World Bank has allocated $1bn in extra funding to build Pakistan’s largest hydropower plant. The Dasu Hydropower…
Skanska lands role on $500m decarbonisation plan for Dartmouth College
Skanska Integrated Solutions will oversee design and construction on a $500m, decade-plus-long decarbonisation plan for Dartmouth College in…
Spain’s Acciona to build runway at new Dominican Republic airport
Spanish contractor Acciona has won a €62m contract to build the first runway at the new Cabo Rojo…
Challenge the status quo
By Mark Zweig, Chairman and Founder, Zweig Group From The Zweig Letter Entrepreneurship is all about seeing and…
China’s home prices tumble fastest in nine years
Official data shows that new-home prices in China fell at the fastest rate in nine years last month,…
Honolulu starts work on $174m wastewater project
Construction has begun on a $174m upgrade of Honolulu’s Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, increasing the capacity and…
Finland’s oldest city to get museum for 800th birthday
Finnish firm Sigge Architects has won a design competition for the “Museum of History and the Future” in…
Chief and deputy of Indonesia’s new capital scheme resign
The head of the government authority responsible for building Indonesia’s new capital city on the island of Borneo…
Pritzker Prize-winning modernist Fumihiko Maki dies
Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who began training in the aftermath of the Second World War and who won…