Seven contractors have been chosen by the US Navy to carry out some $2.5bn in projects, of which four fifths will be located on the South Pacific island of Guam…

New Jersey-headquartered bridge maker Acrow has supplied two modular steel bridges to keep traffic flowing during a major bridge replacement project on the busy Interstate 91 (I-91) in Northampton, Massachusetts.…

US engineer Jacobs has been awarded a $249m architecture and engineering contract by the US Navy for renovation, repair and the construction of facilities. The job was awarded to Jacobs…

US contractor Kiewit and South African civil engineer Knight Piesold have begun preliminary works on the Klamath River Renewal Project, the largest of its kind in American history. KRRP comments…

Six people have been charged as a result of “Operation Wrecking Ball”, an investigation by Los Angeles’ Lafayette Police Department, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the District Attorney’s Office.…

Panasonic Energy has picked a joint venture of Turner Construction and Yates Construction to build a $4bn plant for electric vehicle batteries in De Soto, Kansas. The project will take…

Designs have been unveiled for the Indy Eleven, a 20,000-seat soccer stadium that will become the centrepiece of the $1bn Eleven Park neighbourhood, a mixed-use project in downtown Indianapolis. Eleven…

A report from New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) has found that across the state, the construction fatality rate increased from 10.2% to 11.1% per 100,000 workers…

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul presided over the groundbreaking for the $4.2bn project to develop a new Terminal 6 at JFK International Airport on 23 February. The 1.2 million-sq-ft…

The Texas Department of Transport (TxDOT) last week announced a 10-year, $100bn road building plan. The investment, a state record, is $15bn more than the 2023 Unified Transportation Programme and…

Saint Sarkis Armenian Church in Texas, designed by New York architect David Hotson, has been selected as America’s building of last year in an online poll. The survey was carried…

Aecom has won a contract to programme-manage capital works in the effort to transform Fair Park, the historic 277-acre exposition district in Dallas, Texas with new buildings and landscaping. A…

The UK’s Architects Registration Board (ARB) and the US’ National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB) have signed a mutual recognition agreement to allow architects to register to work in…

An investigation into bid-rigging in the insulation contracting industry in the US state of Connecticut saw its seventh and final defendant jailed for 15 months on Friday. Michael S. Flynn…

Six finalists for the 2023 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) have been announced at an event in Medellín, Colombia. The award, organised by the College of Architecture at the…

Work is almost complete on a residential tower in Detroit built using a novel system in which entire storeys are prefabricated and jacked into position – beginning with the top…

US President Joe Biden this week pledged to toughen “Buy American” rules to require all federally-funded projects to use materials and products made in the US. “I mean it. Lumber,…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a construction management deal to build an offshore wind hub, which will be connected to two wind farms. Two offshore wind farms, Empire Wind and…