News Skanska wins two US contracts worth $514m 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…
News Stantec wins contest to restore bombed Ukraine university 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,…
Machinery, News Hitachi on mission to predict exactly when machines will break down 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…
News Plug pulled on more university projects amid funding uncertainty 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…
News University halts work on $300m research hub amid Trump funding freeze 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,…
Innovation Scientists discover chemical technique to make super-strong wood 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…
News Diller Scofidio + Renfro design ‘monolithic’ timber tower for Boston University 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…
News Balfour Beatty to build 1,000-bed student hall for University of Texas 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…
News Eindhoven University to spend €200m on chip research laboratories 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.…
News Orascom to extend Cairo’s American University 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…
News Skanska to build Texas university’s meat sciences centre 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…
Innovation London researchers help build Indian school with ‘Sugarcrete’ 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…
News Grimshaw designs “Factory of the Future” in Maine 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…
News US Army trials 3D printed concrete for battlefield structures 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…
News China sends prototype Moon bricks into space Chinese scientists working on the creation of a Moon base have sent fragments of brick into space to determine how they deal with its hostile environment, Space Daily reports. The…
News Studio Gang designs educational hub above active railway in Paris American architect Studio Gang has unveiled the completed University of Chicago John Boyer Centre in Paris. The centre has a timber structure and façade, as well as a brise-soleil formed…
News Work is finished on Studio Gang’s mass-timber extension for Californian art college Work has been completed on an expansion designed by New York architect Studio Gang for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The concrete ground-floor level houses workshops…
Innovation Researchers probe rubber roads’ carbon credentials to boost take-up Researchers from the University of Missouri’s College of Engineering have been given a $1.2m grant to develop environmental product declarations (EPDs) for asphalt made with ground rubber tires. Their goal…