The US Department of Transportation has given a grant of nearly $202m to California’s ongoing solar-powered high-speed rail project.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A consortium led by Dallas engineer Aecom has been chosen to provide programme management for the California High-Speed Rail, a 500-mile route that will connect Los Angeles and San Francisco.…