Work has been completed in Chicago on the 1000M skyscraper, one of the last buildings to be designed by German–American architect Helmut Jahn, who passed away at the age of…

New York City’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced today that its first design-and-build project was named project of the year at the Construction Management Association of America’s awards…

A jury in Philadelphia has ordered that the widow of a construction worker should receive compensation of $68.5m after it found his death was due to negligence. Siarhei Marhunou, 38,…

A joint venture between Tutor Perini and O&G has won a $1.3bn contract to build a moveable, 1,500ft-long replacement for the Connecticut River Bridge. Located between Old Saybrook and Old…

Foster + Partners has released its designs for four stations in the Central Valley section of California’s Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail line. The station, which were designed in conjunction…

Ground has broken on a $900m expansion of the Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Centre in Wilkes-Barre, northeast Pennsylvania. The scheme is being overseen by Turner Construction and designed by Francis…

Skanska has won three contracts in the US: a $155m data centre job in Arizona and a deconstruction and demolition project in Georgia worth $49m. In Arizona, the comany has…

Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, the firm behind the highly sought-after diabetes treatment Ozempic and obesity treatment Wegovy, will spend $4.1bn on a new factory in North Carolina. The 1.4 million-sq-ft…

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…

Construction has begun on a $174m upgrade of Honolulu’s Sand Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, increasing the capacity and efficiency of the state’s largest plant. The scope of work includes expanding…

Skanska has won a $50m recovery and salvage contract from the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) for the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed on 26 March after being hit by…

French contractor Vinci has bought two family-run firms to add to its road-building capacity in North America. One is Newport Construction based in New Hampshire in the US, and the…

UK equipment maker JCB has broken ground on a 67,000 sq m, $500m factory in San Antonio, Texas. Set on a 400-acre plot, the factory will build Loadall telescopic handlers,…

The Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) has issued a request for proposals for design-and-build teams to reconstruct the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed on 26 March after being hit by…

China’s Guangdong province is planning to invest $41.4bn in the emerging “low-altitude economy” over the next 2.5 years. The phrase refers to the nascent industrial sector focussed on electric airborne…

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…

The NYC Departments of Environmental Protection, Transportation and Design and Construction have completed two infrastructure projects totalling $128m in Whitestone, Queens that added nearly six miles of new storm sewers…

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) has revealed its design for Satellite Concourse 1 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. SOM’s design is inspired by the orchard field that gave O’Hare its…