News Judge blocks Trump’s latest move against Revolution Wind Work on a nearly-finished wind farm set to power some 350,000 homes this month in Connecticut and Rhode Island resumed this week after a judge granted another preliminary injunction against…
News New York Attorney General sues Trump administration over cancelled wind schemes New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration’s stop-work orders on two major offshore wind projects set to power more than a million…
News Wind developers back in court as Trump cancels offshore schemes Just before Christmas, the Trump administration renewed its attack on major offshore wind schemes. One is 87% complete. Developers are fighting back. Two major offshore wind developers, Ørsted and Equinor,…
News Contractors blame tariff confusion as aluminium jumps 26% US contractors’ body the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has again called for an end to tariff confusion after September data showed steep price rises in several crucial material…
News US lends $1bn to get Three Mile Island going again for Microsoft In a vivid sign of how demand for computing is driving a resurgence of US nuclear power, the Trump administration yesterday agreed a $1bn loan to help reboot the mothballed…
News OpenAI tells Trump to build 100GW of new power capacity a year, or lose AI race to China 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…
News Bechtel signs on for schemes funded by Japan’s $550bn tariffs payout 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…
News Trump funding freeze puts NYC megaprojects in limbo 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…
News $1bn mixed-use Trump Plaza Jeddah ‘brings Manhattan to Saudi Arabia’ 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…
Perspectives, Video ICE raid exposes chaos in the White House 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.…
News US judge halts Trump’s attack on Revolution Wind 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…
News ‘Insane and illegal’: States sue over Trump’s halting of Revolution Wind 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…
Perspectives Georgia ICE raid fiasco highlights flawed US immigration system 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…
News Trump changes tune on ‘illegal’ Korean workers after Georgia ICE raid 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…
News 62% of California voters say they want high-speed rail 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…
Perspectives With copper up 40%, uncertainty’s the theme for 2025 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…
News Aecom, Clark lead Trump’s $200m White House ballroom revamp 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…
News US labour and materials costs rise as builders await tariffs 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…