News Morocco names new highway after Trump A recently completed highway in Morocco has been renamed in honour of the sitting US president after Morocco was granted sovereignty over the previously disputed Western Sahara in 2020, following…
News Kennedy Center renovation “driven by President’s whims”, senator alleges Sheldon Whitehouse, a US senator for Rhode Island and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has issued an open letter to the Kennedy Center for…
News Heads up: Skanska on where we’re at with tariffs, war and the data centre boom Skanska USA has released its Spring 2026 Construction Market Trends Report analysing material costs, the impact of tariffs, a changing labour market and regional and sector growth across the country. …
News Kiewit team to start laying track for California’s high-speed railway A US consortium of Kiewit, Stacy Witbeck and Herzog has won a contract to install the track, catenary system and communications infrastructure on a 192km stretch of guideway under construction…
News Democrats introduce bill opposing 250ft-tall Trump “vanity project” Two Democratic representatives, Don Beyer and John B Larson, will introduce a bill to block the construction of President Trump’s 250ft-tall “Triumphal Arch”, planned on Memorial Circle, a roundabout near…
Markets How the Hormuz crisis is pushing the Gulf states toward greater resilience The blockade has sent ripples across the world’s supply chains but, while all eyes are on the price of oil, Gulf states are developing a more resilient infrastructure strategy. Coming…
News Skanska and Walsh team lands $1.29bn Hudson River tunnel contract 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…
News Tbilisi Trump Tower to become Georgia’s tallest building A team comprising the Trump Organization, US developer Sapir Organization and Georgia’s Biograpi Living, Archi Group, Blox Group and Finvest Georgia are to develop Trump Tower Tbilisi, an estimated 70-storey…
News Trump Tower set to be Australia’s tallest building A 91-storey, 335m Trump Tower in Queensland’s Surfers Paradise is set to become Australia’s tallest building, according to local developer Altus. The project comprises a 6-star resort-hotel overlooking the Pacific…
News Hudson Tunnel Project sues Trump administration over funding freeze Commission says 1,000 jobs would be lost if agreed funding doesn’t come by Friday. The agency in charge of the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project in New York and New Jersey…
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…