Paris-headquartered Systra has won a systems project management contract for Stockholm’s new Yellow Line, set to be the sixth line of the Swedish capital’s metro system. In planning since 2020,…

The government of Sweden is planning to issue state loans to fund its planned fleet of four nuclear reactors instead of seeking private finance. Energy minister Ebba Busch said the…

Swedish equipment maker Atlas Copco has launched an energy storage system that is capable of delivering 1MW of power from a single unit, which the company says is the most…

Skanska has announced three contract wins: a $47m office in Sweden, a $37m school in Norway and a clinic in California worth $55m. In Sweden, the company will build a…

Skanska has won a €48.75m contract from the Västra Götaland region to renovate and expand the Eastern Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. The project includes remodelling on two levels in the…

Samsung C&T Engineering & Construction and Swedish energy company Kärnfull Next have signed a preliminary agreement to develop small modular reactor (SMR) projects in Sweden. The two signed a memorandum…

American engineer Aecom and Swedish consultant Rejlers have won a contract on the 270km North Bothnia rail line   The team will work on the development of railways and public…

Companies from Sweden and Czechia have teamed up with the Nigerian government to offer houses built partly from rice straw. Sweden’s Our Ecolution and Czech firm Ekopanely both make boards…

Two Swedish companies, financial services provider Vinga Group and circular industry specialist WA3RM, have joined forces to develop three commercial greenhouses in Scandinavia, two heated by data centres and one…

Consulting engineer Sweco is helping Sweden’s most northerly city move 3km to the east to make more room for its iron ore mine. The Stockholm-based firm will act as lead…

Sweden has vetoed the construction of 13 offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, saying they could impede military operations. The rejected farms together would have had around 30GW of…

A court in Sweden yesterday approved plans to excavate a repository for nuclear waste, the Barron’s news site reports. The decision clears the way for a construction project that will…

Swedish research on the suicide rate among construction workers finds that deaths tend to come as a shock to colleagues who were unable to detect any warning signs.  It was…

Stockholm-headquartered consultant Sweco has won a €35m contract from the Swedish Transport Administration to plan a major rail-capacity upgrade on the busy East Coast Line between Uppsala and Stockholm. Over…

Swedish contractor Peab has got the green light on a €76m contract to construct a new entrance building for the Central railway station in Sweden’s second city, Gothenburg. Designed by…

Swedish builder Peab has been commissioned to build a €44m prison in the Swedish city of Borås. It’s part of a new judicial complex comprising a new police station and…

Northvolt, the Swedish company that was shaping up to be Europe’s champion in the lithium-ion battery sector, is reconsidering its expansion plans following production problems at its factory in the…

Swedish contractor Peab has won a €21m contract to rebuild and enlarge the town hall in Sweden’s Strängnäs municipality. The customer is Strängnäs Fastighets AB, the municipality’s property management business.…