On 8 May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law prohibiting Chinese companies, or their “subsidiaries”, from purchasing any real property in Florida. Developments in other US states have…

Amazon has announced plans to spend $7.8bn on data centres in Ohio by 2030. These will contain servers, data storage and networking equipment for cloud computing.  Numerous localities in the…

Californian contractor Granite has been awarded a $48m contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers to build flood defences for the city of Wharton, Texas. Wharton is susceptible to…

Aecom has appointed Eduards Miska as director of engineering in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). Based in the Victoria office, he brings 30 years of experience with the…

Bechtel has destroyed the final munition in the US stockpile of chemical weapons at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Kentucky. That completes the US’ commitment to destroy…

The US government yesterday approved Danish energy company Ørsted’s plans to build the first-ever wind farm off the coast of New Jersey. Ocean Wind I will be built off the…

Balfour Beatty has finished a $300m extension of the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, which treats water prior to its discharge in the Sacramento River, where it will be reused…

Skanska has signed two contracts with existing clients in the US, one in Florida worth $109m and another in Arizona at $67m. In Lakeland, west Florida, Skanska will build a…

BMW has broken ground on a $700m electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Woodruff, South Carolina to supply the company’s main US car factory in nearby Spartanburg. It is also…

The high-profile expansion of Portland International Airport (PDX) in Oregon has won fame for its vast, wavy roof made largely from Douglas fir from local forests. The project will nearly…

Architects HOK and Practice for Architecture Urbanism (PAU) have unveiled their design for a $6bn transformation of New York’s Penn Station, the United States’ busiest rail hub. The plan calls…

Skanska USA has completed the $72m Coachman Park waterfront redevelopment in Clearwater, Florida. Skanska provided construction management at risk services for the 24-acre park and entertainment venue. Stantec was the…

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has awarded Californian contractor Granite a $48m contract for reconstruction work on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara County. Improvements include a lane for cars…

Ferrovial subsidiary PLW Waterworks has won a $200m contract to build a new wastewater treatment plant in Pflugerville, Texas, a fast-growing suburb of Austin. The plant will treat up to…

Skanska USA has set up a “data solutions team” to improve project efficiency, cost certainty, client value, and employee satisfaction. Led by company veterans Will Senner and Amy Jones, it…

A joint venture between Skanska and New York-based civil engineer Halmar International has signed an $868m contract to build a transport hub at JFK International Airport in New York. The…

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has conditionally committed to a $9.2bn loan to a joint venture of Ford and Korean conglomerate, SK On, to build three battery factories, one…

A paper by oceanologists at the University of Rhode Island claims New York will sink by 1-2mm a year under the weight of its buildings. The Weight of New York…