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Trump pauses tariffs after markets slide

US President Donald Trump sowed more tariff confusion on Thursday when he paused the 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the US from Canada and Mexico that he put…

Growth predicted for European construction

Swedish firms join Helsinki’s tram bonanza

Saudi Arabia set to be ‘world’s largest construction market’ by 2028

Korean food firms race to build amid global K-food craze

China to spend $40bn on flying electric vehicle sector

London overtakes Geneva to become world’s most expensive city to build in

‘It can’t go on like this’: Germany’s housebuilding crisis deepens

Argentine construction in deep recession as public works stop

Bidenomics makes US construction boom as spending surges 12%

Vietnam sets out 20-million-tonne-a-year hydrogen strategy

Cambodia asks South Korea for help with $37bn transport masterplan

A construction site in Hamburg. Germany is one of the main victims of higher energy costs caused by the war in Ukraine (Bennet Robin Fabian/Unsplash)

Gloomy forecast for EU construction sector

The company said its experience with offshore wind in UK and northern Europe means it’s well placed to support the growing market in Japan and Asia (Reegan Fraser/Unsplash)

Mott MacDonald taps into growing Japanese offshore wind market

Boston climbed to 9th place from 13th last year after tender price inflation of about 7% in 2022 (Todd Kent/Unsplash)

US dominates league of most expensive cities to build in

The pool of unemployed, experienced jobseekers keeps shrinking for the construction sector, says the AGC (Josh Olalde/Unsplash)

US contractors group urges more immigration and training as vacancies soar

Mitsubishi Heavy Industry’s image of its hydrogen gas turbine

Japan to invest $113bn in hydrogen economy by 2040

Egis to acquire Saudi design group Omrania

Turkey’s quake reconstruction could top $68bn: World Bank

Foster + Partners’ Lusail Stadium will be a centrepiece of the newly built Lusail City (AFL Architects/CC BY 3.0)

How Qatar pulled off its World Cup triumph – and what it’s planning next

Tehran, the capital of Iran. Fitch predicts construction will grow 8.4% in Iran this year, but that’s contingent on the revival of the Iran nuclear deal (Hansueli Krapf/CC BY-SA 3.0)

MENA construction growth to outstrip world’s this year, Fitch says

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