Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels Group, BNIM and the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design are collaborating on a 50,000 sq m mass-timber building for the university. The six-storey Makers’…

Turner Construction Company has won a contract to build a $184m agriculture research building for the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The 190,000-square-foot building will contain laboratory teaching space, office…

A consortium led by contractor Turner Construction has won a contract to build an engineering and science building at Case Western Reserve University, a private research faculty in Cleveland, Ohio.…

Toronto-listed contractor Aecon has joined Montreal’s Concordia University to research new low-carbon construction materials through a three-year memorandum of understanding (MOU). They’ll research low-carbon concrete while exploring opportunities for pilot…

New York architect SO–IL has unveiled its design for a 7,200 sq m museum at Williams College in Massachusetts. The facility will contain 15,000 exhibits as well as spaces for…

The Nieri Department of Construction, Development and Planning at South Carolina’s Clemson University has enjoyed a 100% job placement rate for its undergraduate construction science and management majors for the…

Contractor Pomerleau has started building a 14-storey mass timber and steel building at the University of Toronto. The 77m-high “Academic Wood Tower” near the intersection of Devonshire Place and Bloor…

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has bought a disused shopping mall in West Los Angeles for $700m to turn it into a cutting edge research hub. With $500m…

Turner Construction has tested labourers working at a large data centre project in Kansas City to investigate the effect of temperature on health. The study concluded that those tested were…

A pedestrian bridge has been 3D-printed in Lyon by a team that included Swiss cement-maker Holcim, British designer Zaha Hadid Architects, ETH Zürich and Austrian printing specialist Incremental3D. The precursor…

Swedish contractor Skanska has topped-out the Alfred W Harris Academic Commons facility, the largest building at Virginia State University (VSU). The three-storey, 175,000 sq ft building will replace the Harris…

Skanska has signed a $70m contract with Lehigh University to comprehensively redevelop the historic Clayton University Center on its campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Formerly known as Packer Hall, the building…

New York firm Steven Holl Architects has unveiled its design for a $75m performing arts facility at the University of Pennsylvania. The 37,300 sq ft structure will contain a 300-seat…

Swedish contractor Skanska has signed an $80m contract to build a 38,000 sq m science centre at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The facility will accommodate…

New York contractor Turner Construction has landed roles at Texas A&M and the University of Fraser Valley in British Columbia, worth a combined total of $158m. In First Worth, a…

The Rubenstein Commons, a building designed by New York’s Steven Holl Architects (SHA) has opened at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. The 17,175 sq ft…