Perspectives I run this company. Here are my top three tips for women in construction Dawn Lowers-Davis is President and CEO of Lowers Welding & Fabrication, a family firm founded in 1973 in Santa Fe Springs, California. Construction is part of who I am. My…
News California gets first hydrogen-powered train North America’s first hydrogen-powered, zero-emission passenger train has been unveiled in San Bernardino, California.
News Construction on $3.7bn California hospital extension begins Ground has been broken on a $3.7bn hospital extension at UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California. The 14-storey, 70m-high building was designed by SmithGroup and is being built by McCarthy…
News Tutor Perini team to build $1bn automated people mover in California A consortium containing US companies Tutor Perini and Parsons have been selected for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a 2.6km automated people mover for Inglewood in southwest…
News California’s $12.6bn plan to become first US ‘hydrogen hub’ The US is planning to invest as much as $12.6bn in a programme of works that will turn the state of California into a hydrogen hub. The project will receive…
News Foster unveils designs for California high speed rail stations Foster + Partners has released its designs for four stations in the Central Valley section of California’s Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail line. The station, which were designed in conjunction…
News Foster + Partners designs $1bn spiralling “star” for Sunset Boulevard Foster + Partners has unveiled its design of a $1bn “vertical creative office” for a two-acre plot on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Called “The Star” and designed for the developer…
News Sacramento starts village of tiny houses for the homeless Work has begun in the City of Sacramento on a village of 175 cabins to shelter some of California’s 181,000 homeless people. They’ll go up on Stockton Boulevard near the…
News California solar high-speed rail gets $202m federal boost The US Department of Transportation has given a grant of nearly $202m to California’s ongoing solar-powered high-speed rail project.
News 19-storey plywood tower nears completion in Oakland After just seven months on site, work is nearly finished on a high-rise apartment building in Oakland, California that the developer calls the “tallest beamless mass plywood panel structure in…
News Bosch plans $1.5bn Californian chip factory Germany’s Bosch plans to acquire the assets of US chipmaker TSI Semiconductors, based in Roseville, California, and invest $1.5bn in retooling its semiconductor production facilities. Now TSI’s 250 staff produce…
News Skanska lands five-year interchange overhaul in San Gabriel Valley Skanska has signed a $267m contract with the San Gabriel Valley Council of Governments to make improvements to the State Route 57/60 interchange that runs through the City of Diamond…
News Skanska tops out California mental health centre Skanska has topped out all buildings at the new Cordilleras Mental Health Centre it is building south of San Francisco for client San Mateo County in California. Skanska says the…
News Arup and Foster + Partners chosen to design stations for California high-speed railway A joint venture between UK consulting engineer Arup and architect Foster + Partners has been selected to design four stations for the Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed railway. The planning, architecture…
News 3D printed “Veteran’s Village” in California Start-up Azure Printed Homes will create 26 affordable 3D printed homes for “Veterans Village,” a new development in Twentynine Palms, southern California. Each of the houses will measure 900 sq…
News Skanska wins $120m interchange project in southern California Skanska this week signed a $120m contract to revamp a major highway interchange in the city of Corona in Riverside County, southern California. The State Route 71/91 Interchange Improvement Project…
News Flatiron wins $341m in work on California water and broadband Hochtief subsidiary Flatiron has won water and broadband contracts in California worth a combined $341m. East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) picked the contractor to deliver water treatment projects in…
News Skanska to replace 90-year-old bridge in Barstow, CA as city braces for population surge Skanska has won a $30m contract to replace a near-century-old, steel-and-timber bridge over a big rail yard in Barstow, California as the Mojave Desert city braces for a doubling of…