News New York raises penalty for negligent site deaths to $500,000 A new law came into effect this month in New York State that raises the maximum fine levied on contractors who cause death or serious injury by negligence from $10,000…
News Italy’s Rina buys Patrick Engineering to enter US infrastructure market Genoa-based consulting engineer Rina has entered the US infrastructure market with the acquisition of Chicago consultant Patrick Engineering. Patrick was founded in 1979 and is active in the America’s transport…
News PAU to design Niagara Falls heritage project around former canal New York-based Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) has been chosen to design the $12m Downtown Niagara Falls Development Strategy, a redevelopment project located around a former canal. The USA…
News Form Energy plans $760m battery factory in West Virginia America’s Form Energy has announced a $760m iron-air battery plant on a 55-acre plot in West Virginia’s northern panhandle. The factory will be built along the Ohio River in the…
News Gaming giant Las Vegas Sands plans multi-billion casino on Long Island New York-listed gaming and resort giant Las Vegas Sands aims to build a multi-billion-dollar casino and resort complex on the site of the recently renovated Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum on…
News Skanska to replace 90-year-old bridge in Barstow, CA as city braces for population surge Skanska has won a $30m contract to replace a near-century-old, steel-and-timber bridge over a big rail yard in Barstow, California as the Mojave Desert city braces for a doubling of…
News Balfour Beatty lands major hotel contract in booming Miami Beach London-listed Balfour Beatty has won a contract to build the 17-storey, 800-room Grand Hyatt Miami Beach Convention Center Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. It was appointed by two southern Florida…
News Foster + Partners to design 411m skyscraper for New York finance firm US market maker Citadel Securities has put forward proposals for a supertall tower in New York City, and has hired US architect Foster + Partners to handle the design, the…
News Skanska wins US contracts in Arizona and Virginia worth $201m Swedish contractor Skanska has won two contracts worth a total of $201m, one to build a $103m academic building for Virginia State University, the other for a $98m data centre…
News Webuild wins $218m highway contract in Orlando, Florida Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane Construction has landed a $218m contract to widen and upgrade 6km of Interstate 4 (I-4) in Orange County, Florida. Once completed, the project will reduce traffic,…
News Aecom to study idea for second container terminal in Prince Rupert, BC Aecom will conduct a feasibility and design study for a second container terminal at Canada’s third-biggest port in Prince Rupert, northern British Columbia. The terminal would double the port’s annual…
News Skanska hired to fit more commuters into Grand Central-42nd Street Station Skanska has been commissioned by New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to improve circulation at New York City’s Grand Central-42nd Street Station. It sits next to Grand Central Terminal in…
News Lever Architecture wins Portland Museum of Art expansion The Portland Museum of Art (PMA) in New England has announced that American designer Lever Architecture has won a competition for a $100m campus expansion and unification project. The PMA…
News Harley-Davidson selects Heatherwick Studio for Milwaukee events space American motorbike maker Harley-Davidson has selected UK architect Heatherwick Studio to design a public park at its headquarters in Milwaukee. The project will repurpose the current Juneau Avenue campus into…
News US Highway Administration to spend $2.1bn on “nationally significant” bridges The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has announced that $2.1bn has been awarded to four projects as part of its First Large Bridge Project Grants. Those chosen…
News Ferrovial cuts ribbon on $3.6bn toll road in Virginia Spanish infrastructure group Ferrovial opened the 36km I-66 Managed Lanes toll road in Virginia at the end of November, completing one of the biggest public-private partnership (PPP) road projects in…
News Taiwanese chip maker triples Arizona investment to $40bn Taiwanese chip maker TSMC will more than triple its investment in Phoenix, Arizona from $12bn announced in 2020 to $40bn by adding a second factory (called a “fab”) to produce…
News US modular housing firm Plant Prefab secures $42m for expansion Modular housing company Plant Prefab has secured $42m in Series C and other funding to support expansion plans. The latest round was led by the venture capital arm of Brazilian…