It’s been confirmed that on 12 March a worker died on the Besix-Al Bawani joint-venture project to build the Aramco Stadium in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia, one of the venues…

The “Bererix” joint venture of Belgium’s Besix and Latvia’s Rere Buve has finished the first phase of a new railway bridge over the Daugava River in Riga, Latvia. The bridge…

Financial close has been reached on what’s billed as the biggest student accommodation public-private partnership (PPP) in the Gulf region. Australia’s Plenary Group and Belgium’s Besix are the main investors…

Contractor Besix and civil engineer Matière have reached financial close on a contract to design and build seven bridges in the West African state of Gabon. The deal was signed…

Besix says its Australian subsidiary Besix Watpac is now halfway through building the 30,000-seat Te Kaha stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. Commissioned by Christchurch City Council, the $417m (NZ$683m) multi-use…

The consortium building the new A16 ring road around northern Rotterdam has nearly finished the giant Terbregseplein flyover, member Besix posted on X. Called “De Groene Boog” (The Green Arch),…

Belgian contractor Besix started work this month on a €31m project to replace all seven railway level crossings in the Belgian city of Bilzen. Over three years, it will use…

Belgian contractor Besix and Bouygues subsidiary Equans have won a design-and-build contract for a data centre in Neder-Over-Heembeek on behalf of Dutch developer KevlinX. The turnkey project will have a…

Besix Belgium-Luxembourg has won a contract to comprehensively renovate “The Hive”, a 60,147-sq-m office building in central Brussels owned by BNP Paribas Fortis. The client wants to bring more daylight…

Belgium’s Besix and Dutch dredging specialist Boskalis have won a contract to start dredging and building quay walls for a seaport to serve Neom, Saudi Arabia’s vast new economic zone…

Belgium’s Besix and Denmark’s MT Højgaard broke ground last week on a €346m contract to extend the Nordhavn Tunnel in Copenhagen for the Danish Road Directorate (Vejdirektoratet). The joint venture…

Belgian contractor Besix and metal bridge company Matiere have signed a provisional agreement to design and build two flyovers, four pedestrian bridges, and a steel road bridge in the Gabonese…

The 185m-high Atlantis The Royal has 795 rooms and 231 serviced apartments

The team building the 340m-high Dubai Uptown Tower this week logged 20 million person-hours without a lost-time injury since work started in January 2019. Besix Middle East is responsible for…

A consortium of Belgian contractor Besix and Denmark’s MT Højgaard has won a €346m contract to extend the Nordhavn Tunnel in Copenhagen from the Danish Road Directorate (Vejdirektoratet).