A contractor hired for a radiation clean-up project at a former shipyard in San Francisco has agreed to pay $97m after a 12-year legal battle. According to a Securities and…

Turner Construction has broken ground on a $780m soccer stadium for New York City FC in Willets Point, Queens. Etihad Park will become the city’s first stadium dedicated to (non-American)…

Ground broke last week on an affordable housing development for seniors on land owned by a church in Nashville, Tennessee. The collaboratively-funded initiative is billed as a model for more…

A joint venture between Turner Construction and the Weitz Company has reached structural completion on a $445m expansion of Des Moines International Airport in Iowa. The project will increase the…

Ground has been broken on a teaching facility for advanced manufacturing, designed for the University of Maine by UK architect Grimshaw in association with engineers SMRT of Singapore and the…

A 1.2ha extension of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to house part of the museum’s 20th and 21st-century collection. The wing…

Microsoft has paused construction work for its planned second phase of a data centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The company said in an…

California governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order intended to speed up reconstruction and reduce price gouging once the Californian wildfires are extinguished. The order will suspend aspects of…

The owner of two construction companies in Massachusetts has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervision after being found guilty of tax and mail fraud.…

As southern California braces for worsening wind conditions amid ongoing wildfire devastation, the estimated value of the total damage and economic loss has risen to between $250bn and $275bn, forecaster…

Norwegian energy company Equinor has secured $3bn in project financing for its project to build a wind farm off the coast of New York City. The Empire Wind 1 scheme…

As wildfires rage in desiccated southern California around Los Angeles, the state is looking to hire a construction manager at-risk (CMAR) for a $3bn project to build a large reservoir…

US engineer Bechtel has begun work on a 226MW solar farm in Lincoln County, Nevada. The facilities’ 389,000 panels will be located on a 900-acre plot, and will produce energy…

A team led by Aecom has won a four-year contract to deliver the 16km first stage of a light rail system for Texas capital Austin. Aecom will work alongside consultants…

California has published its plan to create a fully interconnected mass transit network by 2050. As well as improving mobility throughout the state, the plan aims to create 900,000 jobs…

The US Department of Defence (DOD) has included Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) to its list of “Chinese military companies”. The move will prevent the company from fulfilling…

British contractor Balfour Beatty has won deals worth $70m in central and southern Florida. The work is in the corporate office, adaptive reuse, aviation, hospitality, public, civic, mixed-use and retail…

Los Angeles’ Planning Commission has approved “670 Mesquit”, a mixed-used development at the edge of the city’s Arts District designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in association with…