The government of Dubai has announced plans for a fourth phase of its South Bay development, which will add 138 three-to-five bedroom villas, together with a few six and seven…

Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a masterplan for a 365,000 sq m seafront park on the site of a former oil refinery. The masterplan will open up a previously…

Engineering consultancy Mott MacDonald has won a contract from Gasunie to assess the feasibility of an offshore hydrogen network in the Dutch North Sea. Gasunie is a gas network operator…

A consortium led by Italy’s Webuild (40%) has explained its plan for protecting marine life affected by the construction of a breakwater at Genoa port. A team of marine biologists…

A team made up of subsidiaries of Austrian contractor Strabag has been awarded a €532m contract to replace a lock on a major canal in Germany. Ed Züblin, Züblin Spezialtiefbau…

Neom this week unveiled another resort to add to its list of high-concept sustainable tourism projects. “Treyam” occupies a tidal lagoon at the southern end of the Gulf of Aqaba,…

Architect 10 Design has revealed its regeneration plan for a waterfront site to the east of Shenzhen. The Yantian Old Market Town is an industrial suburb experiencing rapid growth. The…

UK architect Foster + Partners has unveiled its design for the Xicen Science & Technology Centre, a mixed-use development on wetlands west of Shanghai and south of Suzhou. The project…

Stockholm-headquartered engineer Sweco has been retained to assess the consequences of raising the water level of Lake Sevan in Armenia by six metres to preserve it. Covering more than 1,200…

A joint venture of CBNA and Halmar supported by engineers Cowi and Hatch has started an $819m design-build contract for the 5.5-mile-long Potomac River Tunnel, intended to control sewage overflows…

Hochtief subsidiary Flatiron has won two climate adaptation and resilience projects worth $327m in Texas and Virginia. The City of Virginia Beach selected the company alongside Dutch consulting engineer Arcadis…

A paper in science journal Nature predicts that the number of people lacking clean drinking water will grow by 3 billion by 2050.

Italian green energy company NatPower is planning to invest €100m in setting up green hydrogen stations for recreation boats in 25 Italian ports and marinas. A template for the stations…

Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans for a luxury resort on decommissioned oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, to be called “The Rig”. Located 40km off the Saudi coast in the…

Danish architect Lundgaard & Tranberg has won a competition to design the $30m refurbishment of a Viking ship museum in Roskilde, eastern Denmark. The firm beat a starry field of…

Italian contractor Webuild has been awarded a $4.7bn project to build three dams for Saudi Arabia’s Neom megadevelopment. The aim is to make a freshwater lake for the Trojena ski…

A new district has been unveiled for Saudi Arabia’s Neom programme, which will be embedded within the 450m-tall mountain range next to the Gulf of Aqaba’s coastline. Aquellum is an…

Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, announced that $16m would spent to fund the testing of the “+ POOL”, a swimming pool in the shape of a plus that floats in…