Cambodia will start work this year on a controversial plan to dig a 180km canal to link Phnom Penh to the sea, The Star newspaper reports.  The Funan Techo canal,…

A new company that makes lower-carbon cement from the carbon dioxide captured from the flue of a conventional cement plant has opened its first facility in Redding, California. The new…

The US government has awarded Samsung $6.4bn to build extra chip fabrication facilities at the giant factory the Korean company is already building in Taylor, near Austin, Texas. In exchange,…

Parsons has landed a construction management services role on a $200m contract from the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Fort Worth District. Parsons will provide supervision, personnel, administrative…

Amid ongoing labour shortages in the booming US construction market, employers body the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has urged the federal government to “narrow the substantial gap” between…

A team led by US engineers Aecom and Jacobs has won Amtrak’s first ever “delivery partner” contract, which will tackle a $6bn upgrade of a rail corridor in Baltimore, Maryland.…

Foster + Partners has won a competition to modernise the Television City studio complex in Los Angeles, where programmes such as American Idol, The Price Is Right and The Twilight…

Aecom has won a five-year contract to provide environmental services for all Nasa facilities in the US. Nasa is short for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Aecom will provide…

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) has agreed to increase its investment in its Arizona site by 60%, from $41bn to $65bn, and to begin making cutting-edge 2nm chips in them. In…

Swedish contractor Skanska has signed a contract with the transport department of Washington State to replace the Portage Bay Bridge in Seattle. The $1.4bn design-and-build project will involve the erection…

South Korean chipmaker SK Hynix plans to invest almost $4bn in an advanced packaging, fabrication, and R&D facility for AI chips at Purdue University in Indiana. Its chief executive Kwak…

New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro has revealed its expansion of The Broad contemporary art museum in downtown Los Angeles, which it designed in 2015. The plan includes a…

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…

US architect Sasaki has been selected to futureproof the winter home and desert laboratory of celebrated architect and engineer Frank Lloyd Wright. It was chosen by the Frank Lloyd Wright…

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.…

Iberdrola, the Spanish utility specialising in renewables, has announced plans to invest €41bn over the next three years, with the lion’s share to go on modernising and extending power grids…

US President Joe Biden has pledged to reopen the Port of Baltimore and replace the destroyed Francis Scott Key Bridge “as soon as humanly possible”.

Rescue teams were searching for survivors today after an out-of-control container ship struck one of the supports of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, causing its whole central…