A New York funding body has launched a project to encourage construction professionals in the city to make greater use of mass timber in their buildings. The New York City…

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a $7.5bn fund as part of the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA). Low-interest loans will be awarded to infrastructure for…

The Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) has opened, the final public segment of the rebuilt World Trade Center site following the 9/11 attacks. The 138ft-tall, cube shaped PAC NYC…

Chicago-headquartered architect Perkins & Will has opened an office in Philadelphia, its 23rd in North America. The branch will serve the Northeastern US, with clients based in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland…

A $2bn, 1,000-acre development that includes a 125-acre theme park has been planned for northeast Oklahoma, west of Grand Lake on Route 66. The first phase of the American Heartland…

Ferrovial subsidiary Webber has won nine road projects in Texas and Florida together worth more than $1bn. One of the nine is in Florida, to reconstruct one of the busiest…

Skanska has completed the $256m, 451,000-sq-ft renovation and extension of the Belmont Middle and High School in Massachusetts, designed by Perkins & Will. The new four-floor high school will accommodate…

Skanska has signed an $834m contract with the Washington State Department of Transportation to expand and improve a 7.2km section of the I-405 corridor in Bothell. The project will create…

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…