iPhone-maker Foxconn is expanding its manufacturing base in India as it gears up to double the number of the Apple gadgets it makes in the country. The Taiwanese contract manufacturer…

Spanish entrepreneur Javier Romero has signed an agreement with a Chinese tech company to develop Europe’s biggest computing centre in Malaga, southern Spain, news agency Xinhua reports.  The deal was…

Israeli tech firm RodRadar and Sitech Deutschland have joined forces to market a product that uses radar and AI technology embedded in excavation equipment to prevent cable and pipeline strikes…

Hochtief’s US subsidiary Turner Construction is entering the venture capital business by investing in construction technology startups as a way of acquiring new capabilities. The new unit, called Turner Ventures,…

Hochtief and timber engineer Rubner Holzbau have won a €190m project to build an all-timber technology park and student centre at Bavaria’s Rosenheim Technical University. Hochtief’s share of the work…

Chinese tech company Huawei has completed work on its $1.4bn research and development hub near Shanghai, the South China Morning Post reports. Begun in 2020, the campus covers about 160ha,…

Bechtel credits a comprehensive digital approach for allowing it to finish building a 218MW solar power station in Texas ahead of its 13-month deadline. Set on 1,100 acres in Fort…

AtkinsRéalis, formerly SNC-Lavalin, has opened its new $20m technology centre in Richland, Washington State. It’s intended to develop innovative techniques for nuclear and environmental cleanup, clean energy, digital, and robotics.…

Dutch architect MVRDV has unveiled its design for Tencent P5, a residential development in Shenzhen’s Qianhai bay containing 11 apartment towers and a kindergarten arranged around four courtyards. The development…

Amazon has joined forces with South Korea’s Hyundai to work on the development of autonomous construction sites. The team will use Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a connectivity platform for…

Dutch architect MVRDV has won a competition to design two buildings for Tianfu Software Park in Chengdu, central China. One is a 150m-tall office tower that will be the centrepiece…

Beijing-based electronics group BOE Technology, the largest supplier of screens for the iPhone 15, will invest $9bn in a factory complex in central China. According to the South China Morning…

An international survey by construction technology firm PlanRadar suggests high numbers of companies have not invested anything over the past three years in certain types of technologies touted as productivity-boosters.…

The government of Germany has agreed to fund the construction of a €260m supercomputing centre in Bavaria, tech website EE News reports. The project at the Friedrich Alexander University (FAU)…

CIOB is asking its members to complete a short survey about the institute’s social media channels. Your views will help CIOB better understand user engagement and improve its social media…

A thin film impregnated with tiny heaters and incorporated into floors, walls and even furniture can provide instant, on-demand heating more cheaply and sustainably than conventional space-heating, a Finnish tech…