Galliford Try Partnerships, the regeneration business of Galliford Try, has won a contract from The ExtraCare Charitable Trust for the construction of a retirement village in the UK.
German energy company Stadtwerke Kiel has approved the construction of a gas power plant in Kiel, Germany and has appointed Kraftanlagen München (KAM) as the general contractor for the project.
Highways England is set to undertake major resurfacing work on the A1 motorway in North Yorkshire, UK.
Finnish construction firm YIT has commenced work on the Helsinki Central Library site in Finland.
UK-based construction firm Costain has won a £113M contract from National Grid to enhance its Peterborough and Huntingdon compressor stations.
Munich Airport plans to invest €400M in expanding its Terminal 1 facility, increasing capacity by an additional 6M passengers per year.
Construction work is underway on a medical facility for the armed forces at Stanford Hall near Loughborough, UK.
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to provide a €270M loan to the Bank Gospodarstwa Krajowego (BGK) to refurbish a road segment in Poland.
Mace Developments has secured planning permission for a new £75M student housing project in Cardiff, UK.
Timetric’s Construction Intelligence Center (CIC) has sharply revised down its outlook for construction output in Poland as EU financial assistance is at a standstill. Nathan Hayes, economist at CIC, discusses the situation.
Housing and regeneration specialist Keepmoat has started work on the second phase of the £500M Hull City Wide Regeneration project.
UK-based United Utilities Group has received final planning consent from Allerdale Council for the construction of a £300M water pipeline project in West Cumbria, UK.
The latest phase of Cardiff University’s £300M Innovation Campus has secured the green light from city planners.
Collins Earthworks has taken delivery of the first 75t Volvo EC750E excavator to reach the UK market, after the machine was launched at Bauma 2016 earlier this year.
High Speed Two Limited has awarded new contracts worth £900M for preparatory works on the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project in the UK.
The United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) has secured planning consent for its new headquarters building in Taunton, UK.
UK-based O’Brien Contractors has won a contract from Readie Construction for Bericote Properties’ Four Ashes Park scheme in Wolverhampton, UK.
Swedish state-owned energy firm Vattenfall has secured a contract for the construction of a Danish 600MW offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea.
A consortium of Boskalis subsidiary VBMS and NKT Cables has won a contract to connect two offshore wind farms to TenneT’s onshore grid in the Netherlands.
Keepmoat, a UK-based community regeneration and housebuilding company, has secured a contract from the Leicester City Council to rejuvenate an 18-acre brownfield site in the Waterside area of Leicester, UK.