New York City Parks and the NYC Department of Design and Construction broke ground yesterday on a $41m project to renovate Tide Gate Bridge in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in…

Texan solar energy company Recurrent Energy has secured €1.3bn in finance for a programme of solar and battery schemes in Europe. The company, a subsidiary of Ontario-based Canadian Solar, signed…

Kenya has secured $3.6bn of funding for a 440km motorway between the capital of Nairobi and the port city of Mombasa. The Usahihi Expressway is set to become the longest…

The US Department of Transportation has approved an environmental review of a proposed $3.6bn bridge linking Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky over the Ohio River, meaning the scheme can now…

American contractor Tutor Perini has won a $229m package to carry out construction work at three terminals of Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport in southern Florida. The scope of work includes…

A joint venture between Colorado contractor Flatiron and Missouri infrastructure specialist Herzog has been selected to build a 19km, $446m bus route in Texas. The two were selected by the…

The mixed-use Lantern space, designed by Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has opened to the public in Detroit’s east village. The 22,300 sq ft structure was built in the…

Bechtel credits a comprehensive digital approach for allowing it to finish building a 218MW solar power station in Texas ahead of its 13-month deadline. Set on 1,100 acres in Fort…

Balfour Beatty US has started work on the $340m Concourse B project at Jacksonville International Airport (JAX) in Florida. As general contractor, it will deliver a new concourse and an…

A joint venture between Fluor and Austin Bridge and Road has broken ground on the first phase of the Interstate 35 (I-35) Northeast Expansion South in San Antonio, Texas. The…

US President Joe Biden’s bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) will save the average American household nearly $700 a year in the coming two decades, but that gain will…

New York City is trying to break free from state rules requiring the use of lowest-bidder contracting, rallying at City Hall last week under the slogan “Let NYC Build Better,…

The US Senate has passed a bill that would allow $105bn to be spent on airport improvements. The bipartisan bill was approved by the upper house by 88 votes to…

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…

The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has allocated $412m to help Sierra Leone build its first big power station. The sum comprises a loan of $292m for an 83MW…

Microsoft plans to invest $3.3bn in a data centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The site in Mount Pleasant will employ 2,300 during construction…

Spain’s Ferrovial launched on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange yesterday, meaning its shares are now trading in the US, Spain and the Netherlands under the ticker symbol “FER”. It called…

Skanska has won a $40m contract from the Massachusetts Port Authority to renovate the 250,000-sq-ft Terminal B Garage at Boston Logan International Airport. The aim is to improve the flow…