Skanska has won two US contracts worth a total of $293m. The biggest is a $228m contract to build a data centre on behalf of an unnamed, previous client, which…

Skanska and the University of South Florida have kicked off the fifth cohort of their joint “Mentor Protégé Program”, a free 12-week course aimed at helping small, local construction businesses…

Skanska yesterday marked the topping out of the 35,768-sq-m Living and Learning Center, a student accommodation building for Boston’s Simmons University. It ceremonially placed the uppermost steel beam on the…

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have earthquake-tested a 10-story, 100-foot-tall  steel structure, saying it’s the tallest steel structure ever tested with an earthquake simulator, also known as…

Skanska has a contract to replace a road bridge in Massachusetts, and another to construct an engineering building at Virginia Tech University. The first, which is worth $274m, was signed…

Canadian architect and engineer Stantec has won a design competition for reconstruction work on Ukraine’s State Tax University, which was severely damaged during Russia’s invasion in 2022. Located in Irpin,…

The European arm of Japan’s Hitachi Construction Machinery (HCME) has partnered with Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands on a two-year project to predict the remaining life…

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…

The University of Arizona (U of A) has stopped construction of an estimated $300m biomedical research hub in downtown Phoenix as the Trump administration slashes university funding. Planned since 2022,…

A team of scientists at China’s Nanjing University has developed a technique for increasing the strength of wood by removing the hollow tubes that run through its cellulose structure.  Called…

New York architect Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) has unveiled its design for a 186ft-tall timber tower for Boston University, the tallest wooden tower in the northeast US. The 70,000…

Balfour Beatty has won a $145m contract to build a 1,070-bed accommodation block for the University of Texas at Austin. The facility will contain single and double rooms with community…

The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) is to spend €200m building a laboratory and a cleanroom to support the Netherlands’ semiconductor industry. The 5,000-sq-m building will house labs and classrooms.…

Egyptian contractor Orascom will build a 67-acre expansion for the American University in Cairo. Orascom will build five buildings, an underground service tunnel, infrastructure and landscaping. The Campus 2026 project…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a $91m contract to build a 7,000 sq m meat science and technology centre at Texas A&M University. The facility will be located at the…

Researchers at the University of East London (UEL) have built a school in India out of a new low-carbon building material made from the pith left after sugar cane is…

Ground has been broken on a teaching facility for advanced manufacturing, designed for the University of Maine by UK architect Grimshaw in association with engineers SMRT of Singapore and the…

A team from the University of Nevada, Reno is researching 3D printing capability for the US Army to help it build bridges and other infrastructure needed in conflict zones faster…