Siemens has signed an agreement for lease of land in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK, where it plans to establish a modern factory to manufacture and commission trains.
Astaldi has been awarded two construction contracts in Italy, together valued at €110m.
The Walt Disney Company, commonly known as Disney, has announced plans for a €2bn, multi-year expansion for Disneyland Paris.
UK-based property developer Land Securities Group (Landsec) has secured a resolution to grant a revised planning consent for its proposed 564,000ft2 office development at 21 Moorfields site in London EC2.
Liverpool City Council cabinet is set to approve a £1m programme involving site investigations on the former International Festival Gardens and Southern Grasslands zones that could pave the way for a major redevelopment of the Festival Park into a leisure attraction.
Boxpark and Quintain have secured planning permission from the London Borough of Brent for Boxpark Wembley, London’s biggest Boxpark, in Wembley Park.
A consortium comprising construction firm Strabag and Polish companies TKT Engineering and Elektromontaz-Poznan has won a contract from Mercedes-Benz for the construction of a new engine plant in Poland.
A joint venture of Barratt London and the Hyde Group has received an approval to build 460 homes on the former Kodak factory site in Harrow, north London, under Phase one of Harrow View East mixed-use scheme.
UK-based Robertson Construction has started construction on a 150-room Aloft Hotel on the site of the new Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre (AECC) in the UK.
Swedish construction firm NCC has won a SEK915m ($113.78m) order from Akademiska Hus to carry out an expansion of the Angstrom Laboratory at Uppsala University in Sweden.
Kier Group, Wates Construction and VolkerFitzpatrick have been selected by Public Health England (PHE) to build a £400m public health science campus and headquarters in Harlow, Essex.
Supermarket chain Lidl UK has signed a land deal to build its largest distribution centre in the country.
Astaldi, as part of a joint venture, has been awarded a €73m contract by Azienda Sanitaria Locale della Provincia di Bari, the local health concern of the Province of Bari, for the construction of the New Southeast Bari Area Hospital (Nuovo Ospedale del Sud-Est Barese) at Monopoli-Fasano in Italy.
McArthurGlen has appointed McLaren Construction as contractor for the £90m Phase II extension of Ashford Designer Outlet in the UK.
Muse Developments, a subsidiary of Morgan Sindall Group, has announced the start of construction on the new Hampton by Hilton hotel in Stockton, UK.
Community retailer Co-op has decided to open 100 new food stores across the UK in 2018.
Dublin-based construction firm John Sisk & Son has won two major contracts from Center Parcs, a European network of holiday villages, for the €233m Center Parcs Longford Forest resort in County Longford, Ireland.
British Land, the joint owner of shopping destination Meadowhall, has completed the £60m refurbishment of the centre.
The BMW Group has started construction on a Battery Cell Competence Centre in Munich, Germany with an investment of €200m.
Tech giant Google has broken ground on its new headquarters in London, which will be the company’s first wholly-owned building outside the US.