In response to an unusual spate of mass killings in China, Beijing has launched a three-month campaign to pressure the country’s indebted local governments to clear the vast backlog of…

Singapore urged construction firms to take a two-week “safety time out” this month after a surge in workplace fatalities. Ten people died in construction accidents between July and October this…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced an initial €900m recovery and reconstruction package for Spain following floods in the provinces of Cuenca and Valencia that led to more than…

A partial roof collapse at a recently renovated train station in the Serbian city of Novi Sad on Friday killed 14 people and seriously injured three. A six-year-old girl was…

Two Chinese engineers were killed and at least 10 people were injured in a suspected suicide attack last night near Jinnah international airport in Karachi, Pakistan. A third body was…

A 29-year-old worker has died on a construction project at Florida’s Tampa International Airport after the machine he was operating fell from the airport’s shuttle track with him inside just…

Rescuers have now found the bodies of 15 people who died when a highway bridge collapsed in flash floods in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Xinhua reports. Many are still missing…

A jury in Philadelphia has ordered that the widow of a construction worker should receive compensation of $68.5m after it found his death was due to negligence. Siarhei Marhunou, 38,…

Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki, who began training in the aftermath of the Second World War and who won the Pritzker Prize in 1993, has died aged 95. Prominent buildings he…

Gunmen killed four construction workers building a hospital near a refugee camp in northern Kenya on Friday, the Kenyan Star reports. The construction site is near Kenya’s largest refugee camp,…

Italian contractor Webuild has put forward a proposal to rebuild the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which collapsed on the 26 March after being hit by a container ship.…

A worker on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Germany and Denmark has died after being struck on the head by an excavator shovel on Monday afternoon. The 41-year-old Polish worker was…

A court in Vietnam sentenced property developer Truong My Lan, 67, to death last week after a five-week trial found her guilty of embezzling more than $12.5bn from Vietnam’s largest…

American engineer Bechtel will donate $7m to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), to be spent on support for 500,000 construction workers over the next five years. The company…

Ten people are now known to have died in last week’s fire that spread fast at two residential towers in Valencia, Spain, as questions continue to be raised over their…

At least four people were killed and between nine and 15 are missing after fire engulfed a high-rise apartment complex in the southern Spanish city of Valencia. A further 15 were…

Five workers were killed and three seriously injured after part of a building collapsed on a construction site in Florence, Italy It happened Friday morning when a prefabricated concrete beam…

A construction firm in Long Island, New York pleaded guilty on Friday (5 January) to three criminal charges after a worker fell from a roof on the company’s own property…