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The new launcher must withstand extreme conditions including temperatures of around 1,200°C (Courtesy of Bechtel)

Bechtel starts building rocket launcher at Cape Canaveral

Bechtel yesterday started building the Mobile Launcher 2 project at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida for Nasa’s Artemis mission to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars. It…

To build the Samaritan Court Ambulatory Care and Surgery Center in San Jose, Skanska identified snagging risks before work began and, for the first time, used an autonomous robot that prints full scale 2D plans directly onto floor slabs (Image courtesy of Skanska)

How Skanska built this medical building three months early, saving $3m

Skanska USA says it has completed a three-story, 69,000-square-foot medical building nearly three months ahead of schedule, with a $3m cost saving to the client despite the covid pandemic and…

US vice president Kamala Harris said the prevailing-wage rule change could see workers getting “thousands of dollars” more a year. She is pictured here speaking at an event in Baltimore, prior to the wage rule change, on 14 July 2023 (Maryland GovPics/CC BY 2.0)

US construction workers get “massive” wage rise

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has updated the so-called prevailing wage rule for federally funded construction projects, saying people working on them would earn “thousands of extra dollars” a…

Images courtesy of the Clinton Foundation

Studio Gang designs extension of Clinton Presidential Centre in Arkansas

Chicago architect Studio Gang is to design an expansion of the Clinton Presidential Centre in Arkansas. The Hillary Rodham Clinton Institute will be added as a repository of the former…

Manila Bay (Photo by Paolo Syiaco on Unsplash)

Philippines suspends reclamation projects after US criticism

Almost all land reclamation projects under way in Manila Bay have been put on hold pending a government review, the Philippine Inquirer reports. The move came a week after the…

Chicago’s Union Station (Glenn Nagel/Dreamstime)

Illinois seeks $1.1bn for rail upgrades

US politicians are seeking $1.1bn to improve Illinois’ rail infrastructure and upgrade Chicago’s Union Station. Among those calling for the funding are state governor JB Pritzker, US senators Tammy Duckworth…

The existing, notably steep Calcasieu River Bridge was built in 1951 (CTtcg/CC BY-SA 3.0)

Louisiana picks consortium to replace steep Calcasieu bridge

Louisiana’s Department of Transportation has picked a consortium with which to negotiate exclusively for a $2.1bn replacement of the Calcasieu River Bridge, built in 1951 to connect the cities of…

Everett’s skyline (Laq Hill/Dreamstime)

Skanska to build $215m bio-manufacturing facility in Washington State

Swedish contractor Skanska has landed a $215m contract with biotechnology company Seagen to build it a 25,000 sq m biomanufacturing facility. The plant is in the city of Everett, about…

Images courtesy of Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

Dallas Museum of Art announces winner for extension

A team led by Spanish designer Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to modernise and extend the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), beating a shortlist that included David Chipperfield…

More than 150,000 vehicles use the interchange daily to get to Disney resorts and the area’s lakes, superstores, and tourism destinations (Rendering courtesy of Lane)

Lane to overhaul busy interchange serving Florida Disney resorts

Webuild’s US subsidiary, Lane Construction, has won a $102m design-build project to overhaul a traffic-clogged highway interchange feeding Disney and other resorts in Orange County, Florida. Every day, more than…

Boston City Hall (Lei Xu/Dreamstime)

Boston bans use of fossil fuels to power the construction of public buildings

Boston’s mayor’s office has issued an executive order forbidding the use of fossil fuels during construction and major renovation projects on city-owned buildings. The move is effective for all new…

Mangrove trees along Manila Bay (Elmer nev valenzuela /CC BY-SA 4.0)

US renews attack on Chinese contractor, targeting Manila Bay reclamation projects

The US Embassy in the Philippines yesterday told local media that it was concerned about the large number of reclamation projects underway in Manila Bay. It said it was worried…

Render courtesy of Skanska

Skanska wins $70m contract to overhaul historic campus building in Pennsylvania

Skanska has signed a $70m contract with Lehigh University to comprehensively redevelop the historic Clayton University Center on its campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Formerly known as Packer Hall, the building…

The New York City Fire Department used a drone to capture images of its efforts to douse the crane fire in Manhattan (From the Twitter account of the New York City Fire Department)

‘Extremely lucky’: Crane fire causes potentially fatal collapse in New York

Officials in New York praised luck after a tower crane’s engine compartment burst into flames, causing its boom and 16 tons of concrete it was carrying to plunge onto the…

©GCR, illustration by Denis Carrier

Kentucky construction owner convicted of fraud on $15m contract

The founder of a South Carolinian construction company has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering after a six-day trial. Antoine Berenyi, 63, was the founder of Charleston-based contractor…

Countryside in Georgia, US (Paul Brennan/Dreamstime)

Balfour Beatty wins $320m prison contract in Georgia

Balfour Beatty’s US arm has won a $320m deal to deliver a 3,000-person prison in the US state of Georgia. The prison will contain housing, administration, general and vocational education…

VinFast’s image of its future North Carolina site

Vietnamese electric car maker to start $4bn US plant this month

Vietnamese car maker VinFast says it will break ground on its $4bn electric vehicle factory in North Carolina on 28 July. VinFast is a subsidiary of construction, technology, and property…

Image courtesy of NextDecade

Funding finalised for Bechtel’s $18.4bn Texas LNG project

Funding for the first three trains of the Rio Grande LNG plant in Brownsville, southern Texas, has been confirmed. NextDecade’s facility will have a liquefaction capacity of 27 million tonnes…

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