The European Investment Bank (EIB) this week released the first tranche of funding – €875m – to start work on Portugal’s first high-speed railway between Porto and Lisbon.

Hanoi will start building two of 14 planned metro lines in the fourth quarter of this year as it moves on a plan to get people in the Vietnamese capital off motorcycles and out of cars and onto public ...

Engineers have started building the United States’ first “microreactor”, a 1.5MW mobile nuclear reactor compact enough to be shipped in four standard shipping containers.

Financial giant Goldman Sachs has acquired a controlling stake in Mace Consult, the consultancy arm of UK-headquartered company Mace.

Kansas-based architect Populous has masterplanned a redesign of the home stadium of Portuguese football team Benfica, Lisbon’s Estádio da Luz, and its surrounding area.

French engineering consultancy Egis Group has appointed Charlie Hodgson to be its chief executive for Europe and Africa.

Indian conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) will build and operate the country’s biggest green hydrogen plant at a state-owned refinery in Panipat, Haryana.

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) has awarded a $414m contract to build the Franconia-Springfield rail bypass to a joint venture of FlatironDragados and Herzog.

A joint venture between France’s Manitou Group and China’s Hangcha Group will build a lithium-ion battery factory in Le Mans, northern France.

UK engineer and asset manager Amey has re-entered the Australian market through its acquisition of Premise, a multidisciplinary consultancy it has bought for an undisclosed sum.

A court in Ireland last week fined Colas Contracting Limited €270,000 following the death of a worker on a paving project in 2020.

Bechtel has been appointed project management consultant for the 2030 World Expo in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.