The Philippines has secured nearly $2.8bn in loans for a 26km motorway along one of the country’s busiest corridors. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will lend just under $1.7bn, the…

Global electricity demand in the coming years is set to grow faster than it has in two decades, adding the equivalent of Japanese demand to total demand every year, the…

South Korean contractor Daewoo Engineering & Construction said yesterday that it had signed an agreement in principle to team up with China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC) to bid for…

The chief executive of China Communications has met with Vietnam’s deputy prime minister in Hanoi to offer his company’s services in a range of major infrastructure projects, VN Express reports.…

Two Chinese contractors have started building major roads in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in a $7bn deal that swaps infrastructure for a share in the country’s copper…

One of India’s most ambitious road projects, the 1,386km Delhi-Mumbai Expressway, is facing serious delays owing to land acquisition issues in the state of Gujarat, The Times of India reports.…

A flagship project of President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is accelerating this summer, a senior project leader tells GCR. Amtrak’s $6bn programme to…

US President Joe Biden’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will save the average American household nearly $700 a year in the coming two decades, but that gain will…

The US Senate has passed a bill that would allow $105bn to be spent on airport improvements. The bipartisan bill was approved by the upper house by 88 votes to…

The US government is to spend $830m on mitigating the effects of climate change on road and rail systems. The money will go on 80 projects to protect transport from…

After the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa in 2018, the French government ordered an unprecedented survey of France’s bridges, led by the public resilience agency, Cerema. It was a daunting…

Aecom has recruited an award-winning engineer from the British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to be senior director of highway engineering in the Canadian province. Faisal Siddiqui spent 17…

The Dutch public works directorate and the ministry of infrastructure and water management have selected a trio of engineers – Arup, Iv and Wagemaker – to assess the structural integrity…

Authorities in China’s Yangtze River Delta region are planning to invest $19.4bn in rail projects this year, an increase of 12% on 2023. Among the 32 schemes that will get…

Total construction spending in the US hit $2.1 trillion in January, nearly 12% (11.7%) higher than the figure for January 2023, the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) said Friday.…

A $2.1bn public-private agreement to replace the Calcasieu River Bridge in Louisiana, built in 1952, has reached commercial close. Technically structurally deficient, the bridge is a bottleneck on the Interstate…

The US Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced $729m in funding to repair roads and bridges damaged by hurricanes, flooding and mudslides, and to improve their resilience to future disasters.…

Beijing has told a dozen local governments to halt or delay infrastructure projects to limit debt increases, Reuters reports.  Local governments in China have some autonomy in how they implement…