Tom Lee park in Memphis, designed by Chicago firm Studio Gang and New York landscape architect Scape, has opened to the public. The 12.5ha green area is named after an…

Californian contractor Granite has won a $215m tunnelling contract in Ohio and a $73m water project in Utah. In Akron, Ohio, Granite will build the 16.5ft-diameter Northside Interceptor Tunnel (NSIT)…

US carbon-negative concrete maker Partanna says it will set up a factory in Saudi Arabia after signing a collaboration agreement with the developer of the $63.2bn Diriyah tourism giga project.…

An upmarket New York contractor has been charged with defrauding its workers and breaking New York’s Workers’ Compensation and Labour laws. Both the All Luxury Contracting Corp and its president…

Demolition work has begun on the future site of an academic library in Charlotte, North Carolina, designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta and US firm Clark Nexsen. The Charlotte Mecklenburg Library…

Swedish contractor Skanska has completed work on the 72,000 sq ft Joan Perry Brock Centre at Virginia’s Longwood University. The building is named after a local philanthropist and alumni of…

Turner Construction has begun the long-awaited, $100m expansion of New York’s Albany International Airport. Designed by architect Gensler and engineer CHA, the project aims to increase passenger-handling capacity and eliminate…

The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist, “Flea” (aka Michael Balzary), has won praise for spearheading the renovation of a children’s playground in a Los Angeles neighbourhood previously associated with social…

The state of California will issue new rules limiting the embodied carbon allowed in commercial buildings larger than 100,000-sq-ft in area and school projects over 50,000-sq-ft. Embodied carbon means the…

The University of Illinois will build a research and development centre for autonomous construction technologies at the facility’s Grainger College of Engineering. The Center for Autonomous Construction in Manufacturing at…

The Tennessee Builders Alliance (TBA), a team including heavyweights Aecom and Turner Construction will be the construction manager at risk for the Tennessee Titans’ new stadium. Nashville-headquartered ICF Builders and…

Turner Construction has been awarded a $389m contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers to build two structures at the Offutt Air Base outside Omaha, Nebraska to increase flood…

Bechtel yesterday started building the Mobile Launcher 2 project at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida for Nasa’s Artemis mission to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars. It…

Skanska USA says it has completed a three-story, 69,000-square-foot medical building nearly three months ahead of schedule, with a $3m cost saving to the client despite the covid pandemic and…

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has updated the so-called prevailing wage rule for federally funded construction projects, saying people working on them would earn “thousands of extra dollars” a…

Chicago architect Studio Gang is to design an expansion of the Clinton Presidential Centre in Arkansas. The Hillary Rodham Clinton Institute will be added as a repository of the former…

Almost all land reclamation projects under way in Manila Bay have been put on hold pending a government review, the Philippine Inquirer reports. The move came a week after the…

US politicians are seeking $1.1bn to improve Illinois’ rail infrastructure and upgrade Chicago’s Union Station. Among those calling for the funding are state governor JB Pritzker, US senators Tammy Duckworth…