Danish architect 3XN has won a competition to design 201 E Pratt Street, a building that will act as a bridge between the city of Baltimore and its port. The…

Construction has begun on a research, enterprise and innovation centre being developed by Harvard University and real estate company Tishman Speyer in Allston, Boston. The masterplan of the 900,000 sq…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won two deals worth a total of $198m: a STEM building for Texas State University and renovation work for the Mercy Health Lourdes Hospital Tower in…

Lendlease has announced the termination of a $15bn programme of real estate development in San Francisco Bay that it was planning to carry out with Google. The cancellation was blamed…

Ground has been broken on a tourist resort in Virginia that will contain America’s largest indoor waterparks. The $900m Spotsylvania County attraction is being developed by Kalahari Resorts and Conventions.…

Nasa and the University of California at Berkeley are to collaborate on the development of a 36-acre site in San Jose for research into aviation and space exploration. The 1.4…

US engineer Aecom has agreed to pay $11.8m to resolve allegations that it knowingly submitted false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for the replacement of educational facilities…

Swedish contractor Skanska has topped-out the Alfred W Harris Academic Commons facility, the largest building at Virginia State University (VSU). The three-storey, 175,000 sq ft building will replace the Harris…

California’s San Luis Obispo County has installed two modular steel bridges to restore traffic on remote roads washed out by rainstorms in January and March this year. The bridges were…

Bulgaria has decided to build two reactors at its Kozloduy nuclear power plant, Reuters reports. The new units will be based on US technology developed by Westinghouse and will add…

Construction has completed on the Spiral, a 314m-tall, 66-storey office tower designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) for Manhattan’s lower west side. Developed by Tishman Speyer and built by Turner…

Turner Construction has won a $186m contract to build a 96-bed patient care tower at Westchester Medical Centre in Valhalla, New York. The wing will offer trauma care, and facilities…

UK headquartered machinery maker JCB plans to build a 67,000-sq-m factory on a 400 acre plot in San Antonio, Texas. It will be the company’s second in the US following…

Construction has begun on an 800,000 sq ft workspace and 1.5 acre urban park at investment bank Goldman Sachs’ Dallas Campus. Some 5,000 employees will work at the building, which…

Starting next year, churches, mosques, and synagogues in California will be able to build social housing on land they own without environmental or other local planning reviews. A law colloquially…

Australian construction robotics company FBR has begun testing the latest iteration of its Hadrian X bricklaying robot. The machine now takes the form of a three-axle truck with a 32m-long…

Hochtief’s US subsidiary Turner Construction has won a $399m contract to expand C Concourse at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). Starting next year Turner will nearly triple the concourse’s floor area…

Mexican cement company Cemex is to provide 20,000 cubic yards of low-carbon concrete for an extension to Houston Methodist’s Centennial Tower, the world’s largest medical complex. Structural work on the…