Almost any type of restoration work or home renovations requires planning permission in Spain, unlike in other countries such as the UK where you only need planning permission for major changes like extensions.
A Madrid apartment block collapsed on Monday just hours after it was evacuated when residents reported the appearance of large cracks during the night.
Spain's building sector grew seven percent in the second quarter of 2014 making it the top performer in the European Union, welcome news for the sector that was left battered and bruised by Spain's economic crisis.
Wages below the legal minimum, contracts in a language they don't understand and blackmail tactics to keep them quiet: just some of the problems a group of Spanish builders in Holland contracted by a German firm have decided to speak out against.
Bankruptcy filings soared to a record high in Spain in 2013, official data showed on Thursday, with the construction industry in particular still reeling five years after a property market crash.
Town hall authorities at the Italian city claim a multi-million euro bridge designed by Spanish super-architect Santiago Calatrava has needed €464,000 ($633,000) in repair costs since it was erected in 2008.
The grand opening of Chile's first ever drawbridge has been delayed after allegations at least one traffic deck had been installed upside down. Now the country's president is blaming the project's Spanish developer for the mistake.
Panama canal officials and an international consortium tasked with expanding the major waterway made rival offers on Tuesday aimed at ending a $1.6 billion dispute that threatens to paralyze the project.
Spain's government said on Friday it was in talks with Panama and Spanish builder Sacyr to try an hammer out a solution to a row over a $1.6 billion (€1.17 billion) cost overrun on expansion work on the Panama Canal.
Panama's president warned on Thursday he would visit Europe to force a Spanish-led consortium to drop a threat to suspend expansion work on the Panama Canal, as a row over a $1.6 billion (€1.17 billion) cost overrun escalated.
A Spanish-led consortium threatened on Thursday to halt a massive, $5.3 billion (€3.9-billion) expansion of the Panama Canal, which handles five percent of world maritime trade, because of a row over cost overruns.
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Bargain hunters visiting the Spanish portal of auction site ebay on Monday were startled to find that one of Spain's regional governments was up for sale at a rock-bottom price.
US software billionaire Bill Gates has given Spain’s ailing construction industry a boost by investing a small share of his €50 billion ($67 billion) fortune in Barcelona-based company Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas (FCC).
Dozens of people risked injury in a perilous treasure hunt on Wednesday after a rumour circulated that €3,000 ($4,000) in cash was buried in the ruins of a collapsed building in Catalonia.
