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$27bn final phase of UAE island development announced

UAE state-owned developer Aldar Properties has unveiled the final phase of its Saadiyat Island masterplan, set to cost US$27bn (AED100bn). It will have residences for 58,000, Abu Dhabi’s largest marina,…

Concrete home printed in 12 days could set permitting precedent

Asia Pacific snapshot: Builders straining to meet demand

News

$27bn final phase of UAE island development announced

Concrete home printed in 12 days could set permitting precedent

Hochtief and Turner team up to build German data centre

Prison terms handed to Italian officials over 2018 Genoa bridge collapse

Jail break: Giving prisoners construction jobs is changing lives

Geneva still most costly city to build in, with two UK cities in top 10

Knowledge Hub

Korean foreign minister flies to US after ‘massive’ raid on battery plant site

Mission to build: Safe, sustainable homes for children in Nepal

Contractor makes own PV-panel laying robots

Machinery

Wing-shaped towers soar into place with giant crane at Abu Dhabi museum

Volvo CE completes acquisition of Swecon for $780m

Turner Construction creates US equipment and site services business

Innovation

How Bechtel’s going big with AI and automation

Hong Kong developer to recycle 50 tonnes of glass in major downtown refurb

We build things. Here are two ways we’re using AI now

Companies

Turner & Townsend aims to be ‘Africa’s leading consultancy’

Holcim buys German building material specialist for €1.85bn

Bechtel hires veteran US diplomat to lead Central and Mid-East regions

Projects

Demolition contractor’s new HQ made with waste from its jobs

Big lab building goes up in months from inside out

Turner JV starts D-wall construction at Austin Convention Center

Perspectives

How Peru joined the infrastructure-delivery big league

A thing AI’s good for: Marrying the model to the dirt

Company founders, we love you, but investors need more

Trends

Vinci reflects on AI use in the Czech Republic’s first highway PPP

Changing weather will change the way we build

Can we build it? We’re not sure: Supply chain unease for AI infrastructure

Markets

Asia Pacific snapshot: Builders straining to meet demand

Offices haven’t disappeared but they’re having to step up, Turner & Townsend finds

How the Hormuz crisis is pushing the Gulf states toward greater resilience

Video

Meet the prisoners building homes

McLaren Construction deploys autonomous robots on its sites

Taking cordless to the next level