News Ukraine’s printed school in pictures This week GCR reported on Europe’s first 3D printed school taking shape in Lviv, western Ukraine. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint for getting more than 5 million children…
News Europe’s first printed school rises in Ukraine A humanitarian project is underway to print a 506.5-sq-m primary school in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, with completion expected in weeks. Organisers say it could provide a blueprint…
News Ukraine’s frontline nuclear plant suffers seventh outage of invasion Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant this morning lost all external electricity for the seventh time since Russia’s invasion began, the director general of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael…
Innovation Meet the Canadian architect on a mission to rebuild Ukraine module by module Principal of WZMH Architects, Zenon Radewych, is spearheading a drive in Ukraine to use its system of stackable concrete modules to rebuild apartment blocks damaged by invading Russian forces. He…
News Webuild to collaborate on Ukrainian hydropower facilities Italy’s Webuild Group has signed a three-year “memorandum of collaboration” to support the construction of hydropower facilities in Ukraine alongside plant operator Ukrhydroenergo. The companies will assess the feasibility of…
News World Bank donates $200m to help fix Ukraine’s energy infrastructure The World Bank will give $200m in grant financing to help Ukraine repair the energy infrastructure Russia has destroyed in its invasion. The money will pay for critical equipment needed…
News UK and Ukraine sign trade deal to aid reconstruction efforts The UK Department for Business and Trade has signed an agreement to improve the Ukraine’s access to support for reconstruction efforts once the present conflict is over. The deal was…
Innovation French firm pilots scheme to rebuild Ukraine with rubble of bombed buildings A French company specialising in recycling rubble for building materials has teamed up with the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian organisations to build new apartment blocks from the remains of bombed ones.
News Rheinmetall in talks over €200m tank factory in Ukraine German arms producer Rheinmetall is negotiating to build a €200m tank factory in Ukraine, according to its chief executive, Armin Papperger. He told the Rheinische Post on Saturday that the…
News Sweco wins role rebuilding Ukraine Swedish consulting engineer Sweco has been selected to support reconstruction efforts in six western Ukrainian cities for the Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (Nefco). The EU financed project sees Sweco collaborating…
News Eight construction workers dead after fire in Crimea At least eight workers have been killed following a fire at a temporary residence in the Crimean capital of Sevastopol. Reuters reports that local police blamed the fire on an…
News French team to use virtual twin to rebuild Ukraine’s Chernihiv Ukraine has lined up a consortium of French companies to rebuild parts of Chernihiv destroyed in the Russian invasion. The city of 280,000 people some 100km north of Kyiv was…
News Ukraine war revives plan for Georgia’s deep Black Sea port Georgia, the country, is planning to revive a multi-billion-dollar deep-sea port project at Anaklia on the Black Sea three years after it dropped the scheme over problems with finance, website…
News EU threatens to seize €300bn from Russia to rebuild Ukraine EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today said the EU could seize €300bn of Russian Central Bank reserves and use it to rebuild Ukraine. A further €19bn of Russian…
Uncategorized Russian shelling leads to ‘12 hits’ at Ukraine’s biggest nuclear plant operator says Russian shelling over Saturday and Sunday resulted in 12 direct hits on structures at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), Ukraine’s nuclear power company Energoatom said yesterday. Experts from the…
News Russian ‘energy terrorism’ wipes out 40% of Ukraine’s power infrastructure as EU alleges war crimes Forty percent of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure has been damaged by Russian missiles and drones following Russian defeats on the battlefield, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, calling the attacks “Russia’s…
News Ukraine invasion: Cost of war damage hit $127bn in September As Ukraine’s allies work out how to coordinate an eventual reconstruction of the country, the cost of the damage inflicted by Russian forces on its buildings and infrastructure stood at…
News Foster + Partners among latest to pull out of Russia Architect Foster + Partners and consultant Turner & Townsend have become the latest UK built environment firms to halt work on projects in Russia. Others to have announced pull-outs in…