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The 260 m-long main span of Brisbane's new Gateway Bridge reached a milestone this month with the installation of two truck-mounted concrete pumps at the top of the two main river piers.

The World Bank has approved an additional US$ 25 million to rehabilitate and improve Honduran roads damaged during the Tropical Storm No. 16.

Data from Eurostat shows the decline in European construction output accelerated in the first quarter of the year.

Bauer has completed enabling works, piling and testing on the mixed-use Nation Tower in Abu Dhabi.

The British Council of Offices (BCO) is working with stakeholders in Abu Dhabi, UAE and other Middle Eastern markets, to develop local versions of its Guide to Specification.

The first three months of the year saw the Italian earth moving equipment market fall -47,8% to 3106 units.

A report by Human Rights Watch has condemned the treatment of migrant workers constructing the UAE's Saadiyat Island development

Watch business confidence in the European construction sector change since May 2007 with this animation of results from the CE Barometer survey.

Beijing's Municipal Government is to invest US$ 8.8 billion constructing the Lize Finance Business District.

Balfour Beatty's US subsidiary Balfour Beatty Construction US, has won a series of contracts totalling US$ 560 million.

Partnership formed ahead of massive civilian reactor building programme.

Daniel Libeskind has won the international master plan competition to create a 34 million ft2 (3.16 million m2), US$ 20 billion new river front development in Seoul, South Korea

James Hardie, a manufacturer and supplier of fibre cement products for construction, reported full year sales to 31 March 2009 of US$ 1.2 billion, down -18% on the US$ 1.4 billion recorded 12 months previously. Pre-tax profits for the year jumped to US$ 173 million, up from a 2007/8 loss of –US$ 36 million, a loss attributed to asbestos claims and insurance.

Sentiment about the future outlook for the European construction industry strengthened in May.

Construction Europe's final look at last month's Intermat exhibition picks out the key launches from the show.

The US state of New Jersey is planning to construct a new 8.3 mile-long (13.35 km), US$ 150 to 200 million railway.