The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) will join other development lenders to finance a $65m programme to improve schools in Sierra Leone. The work will involve extending…

Financial close has been reached on what’s billed as the biggest student accommodation public-private partnership (PPP) in the Gulf region. Australia’s Plenary Group and Belgium’s Besix are the main investors…

Researchers at the University of Maine have released images of the 3D-printed, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough to replace steel-and-concrete floors in multi-storey buildings. The university worked…

Skanska has completed the $89m makeover of the University of New Hampshire’s Biological Sciences Building, Spaulding Hall, in Durham, New Hampshire. Designed by architects Ellenzweig to be LEED Silver certified,…

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine have unveiled a 3D-printed, recyclable, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough…

Skanska Integrated Solutions will oversee design and construction on a $500m, decade-plus-long decarbonisation plan for Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. The college, founded in 1769, has committed to reach…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a data centre worth $90m in the US state of Georgia and a $53m initial build contract at Virginia Tech university. In Georgia, the contract…

Skanska has recently landed three contracts worth a total of $436m: data centre projects in Arizona and Georgia and a university building in Texas. In Georgia, Skanska will build a…

Turner Construction has won three contracts from three US colleges: the University of California Merced, the University of Kentucky and Case Western Reserve University. In California, Turner will provide construction…

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…