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.
UAE-based master developer Nakheel has awarded a contract worth AED4.2bn ($1.1bn) to United Engineering Construction for the construction of its new shopping, dining and entertainment destination, Deira Mall, in Dubai.
L&T Construction has won orders worth INR15.85bn ($247.41m) across various business segments.
Boxpark and Quintain have secured planning permission from the London Borough of Brent for Boxpark Wembley, London’s biggest Boxpark, in Wembley Park.
CoreSite Realty, a US-based provider of data centre and interconnection solutions, has acquired a two-acre land in downtown Chicago, Illinois, to build CH2, a greenfield development of a 175,000ft2, turn-key, four-storey data centre supporting 18 critical megawatts of power capacity.
A design-build team of Hensel Phelps, ZGF Architects LLP (ZGF) and Affiliated Engineers (AEI) has secured the Southern California Consolidation project for the California Air Resources Board (CARB) from the US Department of General Services (DGS).
Balfour Beatty has been selected by Westdale and KDC to build The Epic, a 16-storey office tower, in the Deep Ellum neighbourhood in Dallas, US.
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.
L&T Construction, the construction arm of Larsen & Toubro, has won orders worth INR22.75bn ($354.67m) across various business segments.
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.
Nikola Motor Company has selected Buckeye, Arizona, for its hydrogen-electric semi-truck manufacturing headquarters facility.
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Longfor Properties (Longfor) have extended their cooperation to include two new mixed-use real estate development projects in Chengdu and Shanghai in China, for a total CPPIB commitment of RMB4.2bn ($665m).
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has broken ground on Phase 1 facility of Fab 18 at the Southern Taiwan Science Park.
Jacobs Engineering Group has secured an infrastructure design contract from the UAE-based Arada Developments for Aljada, a mixed-use project in Sharjah, UAE.
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.
Novelis, a US-based industrial aluminium firm, has unveiled plans to construct a new aluminium sheet production plant in Kentucky, US that will entail an investment of about $300m.
UK-based Laing O’Rourke has won two construction contracts worth AED670m ($182.4m) from Expo 2020 Dubai to build two pavilions and an access road.
Related Companies, a US-based real estate firm, has selected Aecom as construction manager for The Grand, a mixed-use development in Los Angeles, California.
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.
Chayora, a Hong Kong-based developer of data centres, has finalised agreements with the government of Beichen, Tianjin to commence work on the company’s first hyperscale data centre campus in China.