Shimizu, one of Japan’s largest contractors, is conducting field trials of humanoid robots controlled by AI on construction sites in response to severe labour shortages and to boost productivity. The…

The Czech Republic’s D4 Highway, the country’s first to be procured through a public-private partnership (PPP), has begun introducing AI-based systems. The road runs from Příbram in Central Bohemia to…

McLaren Construction will deploy autonomous four-legged robots, powered by technology from FieldAI, on its sites. Initially, McLaren will use Boston Dynamics Spot the robot dogs with FieldAI’s technology to capture…

Detroit-headquartered contractor Wallbridge has broken ground on a $16bn, 1GW data centre called The Barn in Saline, Michigan developed by Related Digital for Oracle and Open AI. The 250-acre campus…

Project directors can’t sift through terabytes of raw data to see what’s going on. AI can. Every major infrastructure project starts with a perfect plan. The schedule is tight, the…

US builder McCarthy has partnered with AI and data company Palantir on a “multi-year, multi-million dollar” deal to create a connected AI operating system used throughout the construction process from…

US engineering giant Bechtel has created the role of Senior Vice President of Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) Transformation to deliver projects using AI, robotics and digital technologies. Taking up…

Canada’s AtkinsRéalis has partnered with American technology manufacturer Nvidia to develop a range of nuclear powered, large-scale AI factories. AtkinsRéalis claims the new framework will allow collaboration with developers and…

A Japanese team of Sumitomo Heavy Industries (SHI) and NEC have created what they describe as a first-of-its-kind AI system that automatically generates reports of near-miss incidents from camera footage…

Turner Construction has begun construction on a $10bn, four-million-sq-ft data centre campus on behalf of Meta in Lebanon, Indiana. The facility will have a 1GW computing capacity to support AI…

US chipmaker Micron Technology says work will start this Friday on the biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility in the country in Clay, outside Syracuse in New York State. Also the biggest…

The “Spark” consortium building Melbourne’s A$11bn North East Link mega road and tunnelling project has decided to use UK technology company nPlan’s AI-led project assurance and risk management platform as…

Google says it will spend €5.5bn between 2026 and 2029 in infrastructure and offices across Germany, creating an estimated 9,000 jobs a year. Plans include building a new data centre…

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is driving a global construction surge for data centres with some projects now costing more than $20bn, according to a new…

Firm also warns of skills shortage, saying its own AI projects will need 20% of the country’s skilled tradespeople over the next five years. OpenAI, the company that launched ChatGPT…

New York-headquartered Turner Construction Company has given every employee access to AI tool ChatGPT Enterprise in an agreement with OpenAI, the company founded in 2015 that unveiled ChatGPT in November…

A Polish contractor bidding for a road maintenance project in the southeastern Małopolska region has had its abnormally low bid excluded by the country’s National Appeals Chamber because its explanation…

A snapshot of the global data-centre construction market reveals rising costs and unease over the construction supply chain’s ability to meet soaring demand. The vulnerabilities are both human and systemic.…