To mark World Environment Day, this month’s 21CC podcast digs into a complex and difficult question: Should we just stop building? Construction is the single biggest source of greenhouse gases,…

Ten companies in the construction sector have formed an alliance to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint.   The Community of Sustainable Equipment Players, or the Communauté des Acteurs du Matériel…

Heidelberg Materials North America has awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for a carbon-capture system at its cement plant in Edmonton, Canada to contractor Kiewit and MHI-LCSC, part of…

Google has broken ground on its second data centre in the French-speaking Hainaut region of Belgium. It’s part of a €1bn programme that also involves expanding the US company’s existing…

Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has won a contract from Gasunie to assess the feasibility of an offshore hydrogen network in the Dutch North Sea. Gasunie is a gas network operator…

Laing O’Rourke says it’s the first construction company to publish limits for how much embodied emissions can be in the concrete it buys in Australia, either directly or through subcontractors.…

China’s State Grid Corporation has started a $3.9bn project to boost the ability of its national grid to deal with intermittent generation. It will string a 1,069km ultra-high voltage transmission…

The global construction industry stands at a crossroads. As outlined by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation, if trends persist, global carbon emissions from construction are projected to increase 13%…

UK-headquartered construction consultancy Turner & Townsend’s office in Bogotá, Colombia has achieved LEED Gold certification from the US Green Building Council. Its premises at Edificio Nueve 5 is now one…

Dutch architect UNStudio and Luxembourg’s HYP Architects have won a competition to design the Kyklos building, a mixed-use project with sustainability at the heart of its design. Kyklos is located…

Construction has begun on the 17.5-acre “One Beverly Hills”, a mixed-use project with a hotel, two residential towers, retail pavilion, conference centre and botanical gardens, designed by UK-headquartered architect Foster…

Rome has settled on a plan to turn an old military technology factory on Via Guido Reni in the Flaminio district into a forest-themed science museum. Italian architecture firm ADAT…

Dublin-headquartered low-carbon cement maker Ecocem has obtained a European Technical Assessment (ETA) for its cement, which the company says achieves a 70% reduction in CO2 compared with the average European…

The design of a 50,000 sq m terminal for Florence Airport has been unveiled by Rafael Viñoly Architects, complete with a 19-acre rooftop vineyard. Thirty-eight rows of vines will be…

A 255,000 sq m airport terminal designed by Chicago architect SOM has opened at Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru, increase its capacity by 25 million passengers. Terminal 2 contains a…

The Mitsubishi Corporation will invest $690m in developing the world’s largest green hydrogen plant in the Netherlands, Nikkei Asia reports. The Japanese industrial conglomerate has teamed up with Dutch renewable…

Costain’s Professor Julian Hasinski has been selected to chair Nato’s first ever study into how the group should mitigate and adapt to climate change. The study led by the Nato…

Three big construction sector bodies in Europe yesterday published a manifesto on achieving carbon and resource neutrality, outlining a long-term plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions and use less materials.…