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…

US engineering giant Bechtel yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the US Department of Commerce to help deliver energy, data-centre and other schemes funded by Japan’s pledge to invest…

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…

London-listed real estate company Dar Global will build the $1bn Trump Plaza Jeddah, a mixed-use project on King Abdulaziz Road in Saudi Arabia’s second-biggest city. It will have serviced apartments…

Imagine friends invite you and your family to stay for the weekend but, in the middle of the night, they call the police, saying they’re victims of a home invasion.…

A judge in Washington, DC on Monday granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s stop-work order against the nearly complete, 704MW Revolution Wind scheme being built off the eastern…

Last month, the Trump administration halted the nearly complete, 704MW Revolution Wind offshore wind project. Now, its developer and two states are suing to overturn what they say is an…

Donald Trump justified his global tariff carpet-bombing campaign by saying it would encourage high-tech manufacturers to build factories in the US. But the raid led by US Immigration and Customs…

President Trump appeared to show contrition yesterday over the ICE raid on 4 September that resulted in the six-day imprisonment of 317 South Koreans setting up a high-tech EV battery…

Despite President Trump’s action to cut billions in federal funding for the California High-Speed Rail project, a new poll finds that 62% of registered voters in the state – and…

What’s the mood among US project owners right now? We asked George Swetz, Executive Vice President & General Manager of Skanska Integrated Solutions (SIS), based in Boston. The prevailing tone…

Donald Trump’s White House says it will build a standalone, 90,000-sq-ft ballroom able to accommodate 650 people, replacing the current 200-capacity venue situated in the White House’s East Room. Clark…

The cost of materials and services used in nonresidential construction in the US rose 0.2% from May to June and 2.3% from June last year, the biggest 12-month increase since…

No one welcomes construction disputes, but when the initiator is the President of the United States, it’s even less welcome. Last Thursday, President Donald Trump’s director of the Office of…

US construction spending in May saw its biggest year-on-year slump in six years as developers delay or cancel projects amid confusion over US President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs, labour…

Belgian pharmaceutical company UCB says it plans to invest $5bn in a US factory to avoid President Trump’s tariffs on the EU. It makes drugs to treat diseases of the…

Donald Trump’s assault on offshore wind appeared to falter Monday when, barely a month after his administration ordered Norwegian energy firm Equinor to stop work immediately on its 810MW Empire…

Bechtel will be the delivery partner for three new terminals at King Salman International Airport (KSIA) in Saudi Arabia after signing an agreement today. The deal with KSIA Development Company…