Canadian architect Provencher_Roy is toasting the completion of a pair of bridges it designed in Montreal made with concrete 10% comprised of ground, recycled glass. Calling it a world first,…

Standard Bank of South Africa (SBK) says it will launch a $1bn fund to promote the country’s transition to renewable energy. The bank will work on the project with Stanlib,…

Belgium this week granted environmental permits for a North Sea energy island and work will begin in March next year with a view to completion in August 2026. The aim…

China is planning to invest around $13.7 trillion in its electricity sector between 2020 and 2060, reports the Xinhua news agency. Quoting a State Grid Corporation book, Xinhua said the…

Atkins, a member of the SNC-Lavalin Group, has teamed up with the International Air Transport Association (IATA) to create digital tools for airports to estimate the embodied carbon in new…

Pension fund PensionDanmark has agreed to invest €940m in the Danish port of Esbjerg to expand its renewable energy capacity, including €780m to build fabrication works for wind turbines over…

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…

Skanska USA has partnered with the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) to create a taskforce focusing on decarbonisation and carbon reporting, with the aim of creating a standardised guidebook…

Danish energy company Ørsted broke ground yesterday on Europe’s largest e-methanol plant in northern Sweden. The “FlagshipOne” project in Örnsköldsvik was originally developed by the Swedish e-fuels company Liquid Wind.…

Mexican cement company Cemex has partnered with French rival Ecocem to test and implement lower carbon construction products in France. The team will work on the production of lower-carbon cementitious…

Two of three “clubhouses” designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta for a large-scale residential development in Hong Kong have been completed. The Tea House and the Farm House have been added…

Norwegian company Blastr Green Steel plans to invest €4bn in a Finnish steel mill with an integrated hydrogen production facility, the Bloomberg news agency reports. Blastr signed a letter of…

Research carried out for economic consultant Deepki has found that the value of sustainably built property can be as much as 25% higher than unsustainably built property. The ESG (environmental,…