A contractor hired for a radiation clean-up project at a former shipyard in San Francisco has agreed to pay $97m after a 12-year legal battle. According to a Securities and…

China is considering investing $60bn to upgrade Turkey’s rail network, South China Morning Post reports. Burak Dağlıoğlu, president of the Invest in Türkiye agency, said the work could include a…

Management consultant Bain & Company predicts a recovery in some of Europe’s biggest construction markets in 2025 after a two-year slump over 2023-24. Its analysis covers the UK, the Nordics,…

After a hiatus of several years, China has resumed lending for Nigerian rail development with an initial $253.7m loan approved by the China Development Bank for the Kaduna-Kano railway, the…

California governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order intended to speed up reconstruction and reduce price gouging once the Californian wildfires are extinguished. The order will suspend aspects of…

The owner of two construction companies in Massachusetts has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervision after being found guilty of tax and mail fraud.…

Austrian contractor Strabag has agreed a €140m deal to buy all the shares in Australian civil engineer Georgiou Group. The takeover approved by Strabag’s supervisory board on 17 December will…

The Dutch Public Prosecutions Office has fined contractor Bam €30,000 over “potentially irregular payments” made during a development in Africa. The potential irregularity was discovered during an investigation into another…

The Hong Kong Construction Association says Hong Kong could adopt mainland Chinese standards for construction materials instead of using British and EU standards to cut building costs, which are currently…

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,”…

A contractor in Texas has warned that construction will suffer if Donald Trump fulfils his main campaign pledge to round up and deport millions of undocumented migrants. Around 295,400 undocumented…

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…

Two French investment companies, Fimalac and Latour Capital, have acquired a 58% stake in Systra, a Paris-based engineer that specialises in the transport sector. Systra commented that the deal would…

The New York State Supreme Court judge who ruled this month that contractor China Construction America (CCA) owed damages worth $1.6bn to the developer of the Baha Mar resort in…

A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the subsidiary of a major Chinese contractor to pay the developer of the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas damages of…

Two Singaporean companies who owned the ship that rammed into and brought down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge have agreed to pay just under $102m to settle a claim filed…

Vietnam has estimated that the cost of building a railway to China’s southern Yunnan province would be $7.2bn, Vietnamese state media report. The 427km link would run from the border…

Four executives and a corporation were sentenced last week in the US state of Georgia for participating in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids and allocate jobs for…