Swiss power and automation technology group ABB has announced that it will invest $150m to build the most advanced, automated and flexible robotics factory in Shanghai, China.
Megaworld, a developer of integrated urban townships in the Philippines, is building its fourth residential development in The Mactan Newtown in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu.
Construction firm Multiplex has started construction work on Sapphire By The Gardens, a mixed-use project in Melbourne, Australia.
Novelis has broken ground on the $180m expansion of its automotive aluminium manufacturing facility in Changzhou, China.
Gammon Construction, a 50:50 Far East joint venture of Balfour Beatty, has been appointed by West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) subsidiary Blue Poles (BPL) as management contractor to oversee completion of the M+ project, a museum for visual culture, in Hong Kong.
The Philippines-based developer Megaworld is set to construct a new office building for JPMorgan Chase Bank’s Philippine Global Service Center in Metro Manila.
UK-based consultancy and construction firm Mace has secured a contract from Mai House Hospitality Group to manage the construction of Mai House Hoi An, a luxury golf and hotel resort in Hoi An, Vietnam.
Singapore-based construction, property development and property management group KSH Holdings has secured a $195m (SGD266.3m) contract to build nine 17-storey apartment blocks at Riverfront Residences.
Danish company Haldor Topsoe has received a contract from TechnipFMC for licence and basic engineering for two gas-based ammonia plants for Hindustan Urvarak and Rasayan (HURL).
Gleeds has been appointed by Indian developer Shapoorji Pallonji Real Estate (SPRE) to oversee the completion of Phase 1 and prepare detailed cost estimates for Phase 2 of its multi-million-pound ParkWest scheme at Binnypet in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Philippines-based integrated urban townships developer Megaworld Corporation will begin construction of a new and modern central business district, The Upper East, in the city of Bacolod in 2018.
L&T Construction, the construction arm of Larsen & Toubro, has won orders worth $785m from clients in India and abroad.
German chemical company BASF is exploring the possibility of establishing an integrated ‘Verbund’ chemical production site in the South Chinese province of Guangdong.
AkzoNobel Specialty Chemicals has broken ground on a €90m organic peroxide production facility in Tianjin, China.
Oriental Land has finalised an agreement with The Walt Disney Company to develop a new themed port at Tokyo DisneySea, which will include a Disney hotel.
China’s Guilin Medical School Affiliated Hospital has chosen US-based HDR to design a new expansion to accommodate clinical care, teaching and research programmes, which are currently provided in the co-located medical school and hospital campus.
The design by architects Meinhard von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) and WES landscape architects of Germany has won the first prize in a competition organised by Suzhou Yangcheng R+D Industrial for establishing an innovation campus for young companies in the high-tech field in Suzhou, China.
Roxy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of New World Development Company, has secured a contract for a commercial development in Skycity (Skycity A2 and A3 sites) of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA).
Gammon Construction, a joint venture between Balfour Beatty and Jardine Matheson, has secured a contract worth HKD4bn (about £370m) to build a large scale residential development in Hong Kong.
Royal HaskoningDHV and TTC Land Estate Investment Group have signed a contract for the design of an artificial ‘Lotus Island’ in Phu Quoc, a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in the south west of Vietnam.