A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the suspension of the $1bn Kensington Expressway Project in Buffalo because the state’s department of transportation (NYSDOT) did not conduct an…

German construction consultant Drees & Sommer has acquired US project and cost consultant VVA in a bid to expand in North America. Stuttgart-registered Drees & Sommer employs some 6,500 people…

UK architect Heatherwick Studio has designed a redevelopment of the Belvedere, a riverfront park in Louisville, Kentucky. The park, which is the size of four American football pitches, is located…

Skanska has announced the substantial completion of the $19.8m Essex Road Bridge replacement project in San Bernardino County, California for the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans). Starting in May 2023,…

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain. Their Wetterstein Millimetre Telescope will go up…

Arizona’s three biggest utilities have joined forces to assess the feasibility of adding more nuclear generating capacity to the state, news site Arizona Republic reports. The companies – Arizona Public…

Austin, Texas is looking for a construction team to design and build its first light rail system. The body in charge, Austin Transit Partnership (ATP), wants work on a 10-mile…

A joint venture of Tutor Perini and its heavy civil engineering subsidiary, Frontier-Kemper Constructors, has won a $1.18bn contract to dig the Manhattan Tunnel, a project that prepares the ground…

New York’s Mayor’s Office has announced that a $500m renovation and redevelopment project will take place at One and Two UN Plaza, which contains the Manhattan headquarters of the UN…

US house builders have welcomed Donald Trump’s 30-day pause on his plan to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but they urge more dialogue to make the…

Californian contractor Granite has signed an $88m contract with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to expand a section of the Ortega Highway State Route 74 near to Lake Elsinore.…

Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, announced Saturday, will raise the cost of vital materials used in residential construction and fuel the housing affordability crisis,…

Construction is about to begin on a 465,000 sq m military drone factory on a 200ha plot in Ohio for defence company Anduril, estimated to cost almost $1bn. The plant…

Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a detention camp with 30,000 beds at the US navy’s Guantánamo Bay base in Cuba. The intention is to use it as a…

Turner Construction Company has topped out one of the new buildings going up at the flood-ravaged Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska. Vertical construction is now finished at the…

The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a US trade body, has predicted that 439,000 extra workers will be required to meet demand for construction services this year, rising to 499,000…

Ageing US bridges gave Swedish group Skanska a big start to the year as it announced two bridge projects this month worth a combined $670m. In North Carolina, it won…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a $91m contract to build a 7,000 sq m meat science and technology centre at Texas A&M University. The facility will be located at the…