Ho Chi Minh City will need a budget of more than $40bn to build seven urban railways by 2035, according to the city’s Transport Department, as reported by the Vietnam…

Industry representatives in Germany have warned that prolonged budget uncertainty brought about by the collapse of the country’s government is putting vital transport infrastructure at risk. “We are extremely worried,”…

Germany will have to spend €120bn if it is to make its public buildings carbon neutral by 2045, according to a report commissioned by the German Energy Agency (DENA). The…

The cost of Pakistan’s M6 motorway between the cities of Sukkur and Hyderabad has nearly tripled in six years as a result of “mismanagement and inordinate delays by the federal…

Ukraine has simplified the way foreign companies can obtain construction permits, according to an independent investment organisation set up by the state in 2016. Previously, those looking to build in…

Indonesia’s outgoing president Joko Widodo started working this week from the country’s unfinished new capital “Nusantara” on the island of Borneo, 1,200km away from the rest of his government in…

The government of Ireland has issued guidelines aimed at reducing the amount of embodied carbon in public construction projects. The measures look to reduce the use of conventional concrete, increase…

French engineer Eiffage has won a €1.3bn contract to build a headquarters for France’s General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI), the country’s counter-espionage and counter-terrorism agency. Reporting the award, news…

A Danish team of Arcgency, Cobe Architects, Drachmann Architects and Sweco Denmark has been chosen to design a restoration and extension of the country’s parliament and its surrounding buildings. The…

Work has been completed on Foster + Partners’ office for the city of Greenville, South Carolina. It is intended to be the “focal point” for a redevelopment programme and the…

Jenny Shipley, New Zealand’s prime minister between 1997 and 1999, has been ordered to pay US$3.9m after the collapse of the Mainzeal construction company, for which she was a director.…

Almost all land reclamation projects under way in Manila Bay have been put on hold pending a government review, the Philippine Inquirer reports. The move came a week after the…

Boston’s mayor’s office has issued an executive order forbidding the use of fossil fuels during construction and major renovation projects on city-owned buildings. The move is effective for all new…

Aecom has appointed Eduards Miska as director of engineering in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). Based in the Victoria office, he brings 30 years of experience with the…

An employee of Russia’s embassy in Canberra is refusing to leave the site of a planned new embassy in the capital after the Australian government terminated Russia’s lease on the…

Australia’s Parliament yesterday rushed through a law preventing Russia from building a second embassy next to Parliament House in Canberra on grounds of national security. Backed by opposition MPs and…

The government of Nepal has said it will ask the Nepal Infrastructure Company to finish work on public sector infrastructure developments where private contractors have been fired for substandard performance,…

In a bid to boost domestic businesses, a Kenyan lawmaker will submit a bill to Parliament that would prevent foreign contractors from bidding for state-funded construction contracts valued below 20…