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Poland commits $15.7bn to first nuclear power plant
The Polish government has announced that it will allocate 60 billion zloty (US$15.7 billion) to fund the country’s first nuclear power plant.
Billions for batteries: US Energy funding major battery manufacturing construction
Four of the largest awardees and selectees part of US Energy’s battery grants programme
Out of this world: Construction demand from space sector is skyrocketing
The commercial space sector is expanding rapidly, bringing with it construction opportunitites both on planel Earth and beyond.
Images | Final steel beam segment in place for major new Chinese suspension bridge
A Chinese construction firm has put the final steel beam section into place on a major new bridge project in Fengcheng City, Jiangxi Province
Volvo CE launches ‘Iron Woman’ to address skills shortage
Programme to be implemented first in Ukraine, and then in other countries
7 things that are blocking productivity gains in construction
New report focuses on why construction needs to solve the productivity problem urgently
Skanska in $848m deal to upgrade NY reservoir
A joint venture involving Skanska has won a deal to work on a reservoir construction projects in Yonkers, NY, USA
Profits grow at JCB but outlook challenging
Sales up by 14% for OEM but market outlook for 2024 “challenging”
Aecom receives management contract for San Diego airport project
Aecom received a contract as programme manager for a San Diego airport expansion
New aftermarket 3D machine control solution
Develon and Leica Geosystems are offering machine guidance as a retrofit option
ISG UK subsidiaries file for administration
Subsidiaries of the UK’s sixth largest contractor have filed administration notices 
Increased construction activity expected after US Fed cuts rates
Analysts expect the US Federal Reserve rate cuts will drive construction activity
NEC Contracts partners with Consult Australia to encourage contract roll out
NEC Contracts and Consult Australia are encouraging the use of collaborative contracts for Australian infrastructure projects
Lessons from the UK’s biggest heat pump retrofit
Contractor and social landlord involved in UK’s biggest low-carbon retrofit share lessons from the experience
US construction association contributes to White House roundtable on addiction recovery
A US-based construction association took part in a White House-sponsored discussion on addiction and recovery
Going HVO: new Wacker Neuson compact machines accepting alternative fuel
Wacker Neuson introduced HVO as an alternate fuel for its new compact machines
Successful breakthrough of Semmering Base Tunnel
Breakthrough in US$3.6 billion 27km tunnel project in Austria 
What lessons can the world learn from HS2?
Professor CK Mak, a former Hong Kong development secretary, who chaired the Institution of Civil Engineers report into the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg, asks what lessons can be learned from it
Skanska to build research and teaching facility at University of North Texas
Skanska has agreed a US$87 million deal to build a 10,300 square-meter research and teaching building on the University of North Texas’ Denton campus.
Strabag executing ‘largest’ project using its ‘quiet, less pollutant’ asphalt
Strabag said it is using a quieter and less pollutant asphalt product for a major project
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