More efficient AI models could reduce demand for liquid cooling retrofits while accelerating adoption, boosting the industry’s longer-term fortunes, experts say.
Maryland unveiled the design for the new span and approved $60 million worth of construction management and inspection services awards for the rebuild.
‘Decades of poor performance’ in dwelling construction is contributing to the housing affordability crisis, report says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast...
Common Wealth thinktank says Labour should control profits made by ‘institutional investors’ One of the UK’s fastest growing property markets is dominated by corporate landlords focused on providing homes for couples and singles,...
Developers must now offset damage to nature by achieving a 10% biodiversity net gain – but is buying up pockets of land and rewilding them the answer? To most people driving through the waterlogged fields of West Sussex, a patch of muddy...
My father, Geoff Marsh, who has died aged 92, was a senior figure in the world of plumbing, a past master of the Worshipful Company of Plumbers (WCoP), past president of the Institute of Plumbing (IoP) and the first chair of the World...
About 100 potential locations identified as government vows to sweep away red tape to get them built Up to 12 new towns will be under construction by the next election after 100 potential locations in England were identified as part of...
The first winner of the Stirling Prize is a moment of ambition and distinctiveness in what might otherwise be an ocean of blandness. Let’s not demolish it , says the Observer’s architecture critic When the Stirling prize was launched...
Exclusive: Analysis suggests development in flood regions result of Labour push for 1.5m new homes in five years More than 100,000 new homes will be built on the highest-risk flood zones in England in the next five years as part of the...
Housing secretary formally announces two-year deconstruction of London tower block where fire killed 72 people The remains of Grenfell Tower, the west London tower block in which 72 people died in a fire, are to be demolished over a...
Rachel Reeves’ bold infrastructure plans for Heathrow, transport, housing and more rely on training a new generation of construction professionals before the shovels go in the ground Even a nonexistent Heathrow third runway or HS2...
Chancellor to apply ‘zoning scheme’ around commuter train stations to boost fragile UK economy and encourage investment Housebuilders will be handed swifter access to build new homes around England’s commuter train stations under the...
PM to promise $10,000 payments to keep young people in construction as cost of living blamed for a shortfall in builders Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast...
Growth weaker than City forecasts but government says it’s a ‘step in the right direction’ Reeves summons regulators to push growth Chancellor clings to green shoots of recovery The UK economy grew by just 0.1% in November, weaker than...
Margaret Thatcher’s 1980s policy turbocharged the sale of council homes, contributing to ‘worst housing crisis in living memory’ Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme has left Britain with the legacy of a social housing shortfall that...
Norwegian capital’s sites were 98% free of fossil fuels last year, and it aims to increase use of electric machinery Tafseer Ali felt no need to raise his voice as the pair of diggers lumbered past him, their treads weighing heavy on the...
John Worrall , Ed Brierley and Will Wright respond to an article by Kirsty Major on the struggles many face to climb the property ladder Kirsty Major ( Meet the young families stuck in their starter homes thanks to the UK housing crisis,...
‘Future homes standard’ will not mandate replacing boilers with environmentally friendly alternative The government is to scrap the 2035 ban on gas boilers in its new housebuilding standards. The previous Conservative government had laid...
Environmental nudge | A mad world | The B-word | Abstract artists | Pushing AI Rather than wasting time and money on “nudge units” to boost the take-up of heat pumps ( Report, 1 January ), the government just needs to order housebuilders...
Interest has surged since relaxation of planning rules last March, but technical difficulties often loom large On a busy high street in Balham, south London, stands a boxy, beige-fronted building. Built in the 1940s, for decades the...
Subsidence affecting many new builds, raising questions about sustainability of skyscrapers in coastal areas Miami’s oceanfront skyscrapers are sinking. In 2021 the devastating collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in...
Business, relegated from the FTSE 100 share index this week, blames delays at developments Business live – latest updates The UK housebuilder Vistry has issued its third profit warning in three months, in a year-end blow to the...
Lendlease has won a contract worth £80m ($115.7m) from Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to redevelop the former Royal Mail sorting office at Copperas Hill into a university building.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has signed an agreement with the city’s major airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a $1.3bn infrastructure project at the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois.
Ssangyong Engineering & Construction’s Dubai unit and China State Construction Engineering (Middle East) have secured a contract worth AED1.4bn ($381.1m) from Nakheel to build The Palm Gateway at Dubai’s master development Palm Jumeirah.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has won a contract worth INR27.59bn ($405.8m) for building a supercritical thermal power project in Tamil Nadu, India.
Strabag, through its Polish subsidiaries, has secured two road construction contracts worth PLN484m (about $120m) from Poland’s General Directorate for National Roads and Highways (GDDKiA).
A consortium led by Ferrovial subsidiary Cintra has won a contract valued at €1.01bn from the Slovakia Ministry of Transport to design, construct, finance, operate and maintain the beltway around Bratislava, Slovakia.
Engineering solutions provider Costain has secured an early contractor involvement (ECI) contract from Lancashire County Council for the Preston Western Distributor and associated link roads.
The project involves the construction of 20,000 modern low-cost houses, a school for 2,000 orphans, a home for 2,000 elderly people, five six-lane bridges over the Yangon river, retail units, and the installation of requisite sewerage...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has granted a $112.3m loan to the Moroccan National Railways Office (ONCF) to upgrade infrastructure on the Tangier-Casablanca-Marrakech railway route.