Global Construction Review

US transport secretary Sean P. Duffy is allocating $1.86bn to repair roads, bridges and other transport infrastructure damaged by natural disasters.

$908m of the funding will be spent fixing damage caused by 2024’s Hurricane Helene, the deadliest mainland US hurricane

A terminal at Dalaman Airport in southwestern Turkey has become the first to fulfil its electricity needs through solar power generated on site.

Rooftop photovoltaic panels are able to generate 20,000 MWh of renewable electricity annually. Producing that amount of electricity with fossil fuels would emit 8,500 tons of CO₂.

The system was designed to be integrate...

US engineering giant Bechtel has opened an office in Gdańsk, northern Poland to support the delivery of the country’s first nuclear power plant and develop a local workforce to grow Poland’s nuclear industry.

The office will serve as an engineering and operations hub for the nuclear facility in Choczewo, Pomerania, on the Baltic coast, which is Poland’s first nuclear proj...

Research conducted by the Eastern European Construction Forecasting Association (EECFA) analysing the construction markets of eight countries – Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Türkiye and Ukraine – finds that almost all regions except Russia are expected to maintain their output levels until 2028.

Russia and Ukraine

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France’s Bouygues Construction haș been selected to design and build a 562-bed hospital in Montenegro’s capital, Podgorica, for the country’s ministries of health and public works.

Located on the site of the current Clinical Centre of Montenegro, the hospital will contain 19 surgical theatres including 14 for adults and five for children, 117 intensive care units, an acci...