A team led by Aecom has won a four-year contract to deliver the 16km first stage of a light rail system for Texas capital Austin. Aecom will work alongside consultants…

California has published its plan to create a fully interconnected mass transit network by 2050. As well as improving mobility throughout the state, the plan aims to create 900,000 jobs…

The US Department of Defence (DOD) has included Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) to its list of “Chinese military companies”. The move will prevent the company from fulfilling…

British contractor Balfour Beatty has won deals worth $70m in central and southern Florida. The work is in the corporate office, adaptive reuse, aviation, hospitality, public, civic, mixed-use and retail…

Los Angeles’ Planning Commission has approved “670 Mesquit”, a mixed-used development at the edge of the city’s Arts District designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) in association with…

A subsidiary of Tata Chemicals North America has signed a letter of intent with nuclear engineer BWXT Advanced Technologies to explore deploying up to eight micro reactors at its soda…

Energy Northwest, a power company in the state of Washington, has hired Montreal-headquartered engineer AtkinsRéalis to be owner’s engineer in a project to develop small modular reactors (SMRs) for Amazon…

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it will make a $9.6bn loan to BlueOval SK (BOSK) to build three battery plants for Ford electric vehicles. One factory…

Sweden’s Skanska has won two contracts in the US worth $786m: one is to build a parking garage and other modernisation works at Boston’s Logan Airport, and the other is…

A team from the University of Nevada, Reno is researching 3D printing capability for the US Army to help it build bridges and other infrastructure needed in conflict zones faster…

The San Antonio International Airport in Texas has broken ground on the $1.2bn, 80,000-sq-m Terminal C. It will be about the same size as the airport’s existing terminals A and…

Mauricio Baiense, the owner and operator of Contract Framing Builders (CFB), a Massachusetts construction company, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for tax fraud and lying under oath…

Work on the tallest building in the US has been delayed over fears that it may pose a danger to aircraft, Archinect reports.  The Legends Tower in Oklahoma City would…

New Yorkers are bracing for a minimum eight-year megaproject in Midtown Manhattan after the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) approved a $10bn plan to tear down and replace the world’s busiest…

Skanska has signed a $126m contract with the Tennessee Department of General Services to renovate downtown Nashville’s Legislative Plaza, a 1975 development that offers spaces for public events above government…

UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a contract worth around $60m to build a stormwater capture system under a high school in La Puente, California. As construction manager at-risk, it will…

A joint venture of Jacobs and McCarthy has won a $160m contract to improve groundwater desalination capacity in southern California, where over-extraction of groundwater in the first half of the…

Ground has broken on Terminal F at Dallas Fort Worth (DFW) airport in Texas, a $1.6bn project that will contain 15 gates and a 400,000 sq ft concourse. Terminal F…