A team of US companies Traylor Bros. and Walsh Construction alongside Sweden’s Skanska has won a $1.29bn contract to build a segment of New York’s Hudson Tunnel Project. It’s the…

Employers’ group the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has warned that the US federal government shutdown, now in its 13th day, could undermine construction projects across the country. It…

Two critical New York City transport megaprojects – the $16bn Hudson Tunnels project and the $2bn 2nd Avenue Subway extension – ended the week in limbo after the Trump administration…

A report by UK-headquartered Mace has analysed 5,000 mega- and giga-projects worldwide, finding that 11% are at risk of delays or cancellation, with a potential loss of $1.5tn in global…

Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri has become the latest US university to halt major construction projects as the Trump administration sows confusion over funding. It hit pause on a…

Dutch grid operator Liander has warned that 317 of its construction projects are at risk because the government has delayed a decision on how to combat nitrogen pollution, the NL…

Nitin Gadkari, India’s minister of roads and highways, has said the ill-fated Goa to Mumbai highway is due to be completed in June. Work on four-laning the 580km route began…

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…

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has rounded on contractors building the country’s $16bn Long Thanh International Airport, demanding that they stop gossiping and eat “quickly” and sleep “urgently”, newspaper…

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…

A controversial project to reorganise the rail network around Stuttgart has been delayed by more than a year, reports Der Spiegel. The Stuttgart 21 scheme involves building a main underground…

Central Japan Railway (JR Central) said on Friday that it had abandoned its plan to complete an ultra-high-speed railway between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2027, Kyodo News reports.  JR Central…

Beijing has told a dozen local governments to halt or delay infrastructure projects to limit debt increases, Reuters reports.  Local governments in China have some autonomy in how they implement…

The state of California launched a website yesterday tracking the progress of state and federal infrastructure projects and how taxpayers’ money is being spent on them. The build.ca.gov site aims…

The Gordie Howe cable-stayed bridge under construction between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan is 10 months behind schedule and C$700m over budget, the authority building it has said. Funded by…

Belarus’ Architecture and Construction Ministry has announced plans to set a five-year deadline to complete all unfinished construction projects. The announcement was broadcast by Ruslan Parkhamovich, the architecture and construction…