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The trade group Associated General Contractors of America reported that more projects were canceled than were started in the last 12 months, and that construction employment declined in most metro areas. The Houston area lost the most construction jobs of...

The reboot plan weighs in at a cost of €100bn, and will include various construction and infrastructure projects including building retrofits, the nation’s railway network, in addition to hydrogen infrastructure. Nearly a third of the total spend will go exclusively...

Uncertainty surrounding the next wave of COVID-19 infections in the fall and winter and delayed fiscal stimulus will lead to a slow and jagged recovery in 2021,” Branch said in the release. “Business and consumer confidence will improve over...

The Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Alok Sharma MP, has written a letter paying tribute to the UK construction industry.  In the letter, addressed to “everyone working in the construction sector”, he expresses “admiration for...

More than 70 per cent of Canadian construction companies responding had as many or more projects during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to before. The How We Build Now Canada survey – conducted by Procore...

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor- CPEC is making the news again. In order to start the construction of package- I of the Mainline-1 project in CPEC, Pakistan is looking out to get a loan sanctioned for USD 2.7 billion from...

To prevent disastrous accidents that threaten the lives of workers at construction sites, South Korea's major builder Hyundai Engineering and Construction has adopted an artificial intelligence-based disaster prediction system using big data. "Based on big data of 39 million safety...