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…

Japanese wooden housing and materials company Sumitomo Forestry has spent $215m to acquire a majority stake in US housebuilder JPI. JPI will keep its name and maintain its headquarters in…

Four people have been indicted over a $5-10m extension to a cancer centre in Florida, awarded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). A reimbursement of $4.8m is being…

The US government has agreed to restore a sacred First Nation site in Oregon after a 15-year battle in the Supreme Court. The Place of Big Big trees, on the…

The Vesterheim Norwegian–American Museum in Decorah, Iowa, has just been given an 8,000 sq m building designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta. The Commons, as the extension is called, will contain…