A subsidiary of Tata Chemicals North America has signed a letter of intent with nuclear engineer BWXT Advanced Technologies to explore deploying up to eight micro reactors at its soda…

Energy Northwest, a power company in the state of Washington, has hired Montreal-headquartered engineer AtkinsRéalis to be owner’s engineer in a project to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) for Amazon…

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will make a $9.6bn loan to BlueOval SK (BOSK) to build three battery plants for Ford electric vehicles. One factory…

Sweden’s Skanska has won two contracts in the US worth $786m: one is to build a parking garage and other modernisation works at Boston’s Logan Airport, and the other is…

A team from the University of Nevada, Reno is researching 3D printing capability for the US Army to help it build bridges and other infrastructure needed in conflict zones faster…

The San Antonio International Airport in Texas has broken ground on the $1.2bn, 80,000-sq-m Terminal C. It will be about the same size as the airport’s existing terminals A and…

Mauricio Baiense, the owner and operator of Contract Framing Builders (CFB), a Massachusetts construction company, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud and lying under oath…

Work on the tallest building in the US has been delayed over fears that it may pose a danger to aircraft, Archinect reports.  The Legends Tower in Oklahoma City would…

New Yorkers are bracing for a minimum eight-year megaproject in Midtown Manhattan after the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) approved a $10bn plan to tear down and replace the world’s busiest…

Skanska has signed a $126m contract with the Tennessee Department of General Services to renovate downtown Nashville’s Legislative Plaza, a 1975 development that offers spaces for public events above government…

UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a contract worth around $60m to build a stormwater capture system under a high school in La Puente, California. As construction manager at-risk, it will…

A joint venture of Jacobs and McCarthy has won a $160m contract to improve groundwater desalination capacity in southern California, where over-extraction of groundwater in the first half of the…

Ground has broken on Terminal F at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) airport in Texas, a $1.6bn project that will contain 15 gates and a 400,000 sq ft concourse. Terminal F…

A contractor in Texas has warned that construction will suffer if Donald Trump fulfils his main campaign pledge to round up and deport millions of undocumented migrants. Around 295,400 undocumented…

A joint venture between Tutor Perini and O&G Industries has been awarded a $1.2bn contract to design and build a 4km-long elevated railway at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport.…

A team made up of North American engineers AtkinsRéalis, Jacobs and Westinghouse has landed a 10-year contract worth $2.3bn to operate a nuclear waste treatment plant for the US Department…

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…

Turner Construction has broken ground on a $2bn data centre campus in New Albany, central Ohio. The project, which is for IT services company Vantage, will have a floor area…