The French cement giant started operating in Syria just before the civil war erupted. When Islamic State took over the region, Lafarge paid them protection money so it could keep trading. The consequences are still playing out. By...
Union members hit out at LNP as deputy premier announces pause on pay and conditions policy Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A “sweetheart deal” for the CFMEU has been suspended in an unprecedented crackdown...
Beijing’s model is hitting roadblocks. It needs to move toward more home-grown spending – even if one-party politics makes that hard China faces what the economist Albert Hirschman noted decades ago: explosive growth is unbalanced, and...
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Shadow cabinet secretary Claire Coutinho accepted donation from Lord Bamford while overseeing millions awarded to his family businesses in green grants A Conservative former cabinet minister who took donations from the billionaire boss...
Sumptuously textured, carbon negative and just a bit more expensive, hempcrete is being increasingly used in eco-friendly building Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Michael Leung first came across hempcrete...
Firm issues second profit warning in a month after review into ‘understated’ build costs in south division Shares in the FTSE 100 housebuilder Vistry have plunged after it issued a second profit warning in as many months and said cost...
Remedial action to make the cladding on buildings safer could take 20 years. In the meantime, we can avoid repeating the mistakes of the past The Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 was a tragedy. Preventing its repetition is a fiasco. The...
National Audit Office report says taxpayer-funded scheme made payment to suspected scammer last autumn Fraudsters may have stolen £500,000 from a taxpayer-funded scheme aimed at accelerating the removal of dangerous cladding from...
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Labour shortage is driving up construction costs and stopping industry from building enough homes to ease housing crisis, Master Builders says Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Leading construction bodies are...
A more sophisticated planning approach is needed to build homes for more people while still providing greenery and open space Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news...
Long-delayed regulations for England may ‘encourage’ housebuilders to equip homes with solar panels, rather than requiring them Labour is considering making solar panels optional on new homes in England, after pressure from...
Program that ties new infrastructure to housing projects will start in 2027 in 10 Melbourne ‘activity centres’, premier says Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news...
Business Council of Australia also recommends phasing out stamp duty and fast-tracking migrant workers for building industry Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news...
Transport secretary says analysis of high-speed rail project unable to clarify if overrun is £10bn or £20bn Ministers are to oversee HS2 and have launched a review after the government was unable to ascertain the scale of the ballooning...
Bring in ‘future homes standard’ or leave families at risk of higher bills and emissions for decades, MPs and experts say Ministers must take steps now to ensure that all homes are built to the most efficient low-carbon standards, or...
Under-pressure housebuilder says drive to increase UK housing stock could generate long-term growth Business live – latest updates The under-pressure builder Bellway has hailed the government’s planning system revamp, arguing it will...
In the face of sexism, harassment and unequal pay, a group of women in the construction industry offers support and empowerment to their colleagues Not long after teenager Reyna Quispe started working in construction in Bolivia, she...
In the early days of Kamp Studios, Kim Collins and Amy Morgenstern were barely making rent. Now they’re a favorite of interior designers across the country If there was a low point in the history of Kamp Studios, it had to have been 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.