News US company raises $2bn to boost power supply to its data centres US company DataBank has raised $2bn to spend on installing additional generating capacity for its fleet of data centres. The company intends to add 850MW to meet demand, which is…
News Judge orders Chinese contractor to pay $1.6bn over Baha Mar resort A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the subsidiary of a major Chinese contractor to pay the developer of the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas damages of…
News Singapore firms pay $102m to US over Baltimore bridge collapse Two Singaporean companies who owned the ship that rammed into and brought down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge have agreed to pay just under $102m to settle a claim filed…
News Skanska racks up ‘summer slammer’ college projects in Boston Skanska has finished two “summer slammer” college renovation projects in Boston, Massachusetts, together valued at $13m. Executed during summer when students are away, the projects were an $11m upgrade to…
News New Denver building simulates “living in a canyon” China’s MAD Architects has opened One River North, a 16-storey, mixed-use development in the centre of Denver, Colorado, which contains a crack through the building, displaying a set-back interior inspired…
News Studio Gang’s aspen-inspired hotel opens in Denver Populous, a 265-room hotel designed by Studio Gang, has opened in downtown Denver. The name is taken from “populus tremuloides”, Colorado’s native aspen, which is also referenced in the colour…
Projects Cowi rolls bridge into place for sorely needed grade separation Danish international consultant Cowi last week successfully moved a 290-foot-long steel network-tied arch bridge into place for a complex grade separation project in the city of Corona in southwestern California.…
News Concrete bosses jailed for years-long price-fixing scam Four executives and a corporation were sentenced last week in the US state of Georgia for participating in a long-running conspiracy to fix prices, rig bids and allocate jobs for…
News ‘No money left’ for US disaster loans after hurricane double-whammy The US Small Business Administration (SBA), a federal agency, said this week it has no money left for disaster loans after two destructive hurricanes, Helene and Milton, ripped through southeastern…
News Snøhetta library with unique glass façade opens in Queens Snøhetta’s design for the Far Rockaway Library has opened in the borough of Queens, New York City. The $39m project will act as a community space and educational resource for…
News US states, cities, developers, builders make low-carbon cement pledges The Biden-Harris administration this week unveiled a series of pledges made by some state and city governments along with cement manufacturers, construction firms, developers and tech companies to use lower-emission…
News Google orders multiple small reactors to power AI data centres Google will buy nuclear energy from small modular reactors (SMRs) built and run by California’s Kairos Power as the internet giant races to secure enough clean electricity to power artificial…
News Kengo Kuma to lead design team for terrorism memorial in Washington DC Japan’s Kengo Kuma and Associates will be the lead designer for the Global War on Terrorism Memorial, which will be located at the National Mall in Washington, DC, close to…
News Civil engineers cancel convention as yet another storm nears Florida The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) yesterday canceled this year’s annual convention in Tampa, Florida over safety concerns as Tropical Storm Milton is forecast to hit Florida’s west coast…
News MIT team finds way to print glass bricks A team at MIT has published a research paper detailing its work on printing bricks made from recycled glass that can be interlocked like Lego pieces. The use of printing…
News Skanska JV lands $625m contract to fix 15 Rhode Island bridges A Skanska-led joint venture with McCourt Construction and Aetna Bridge Company has won a $625m design-build contract from the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) to rehabilitate 15 structurally deficient…
News Decommissioned power plant to form centrepiece of Connecticut island park Architect Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and landscape architect Scape have announced plans to redevelop a former industrial site on an island in the city of Norwalk, southeast Connecticut. A coal-fired…
News UK start-up ships two robotic housebuilding ‘micro-factories’ to the US UK construction tech startup Automated Architecture (AUAR) is shipping two of its robotic “pop-up micro-factories” to the US in its first foray into automated housebuilding in North America. Packed into…