News Miami airport plans $1bn extension Miami International Airport (MIA) says it will start on a $1bn expansion of its Concourse D in 2027. The project will convert the existing Gate D60 area into a three-storey…
News Balfour Beatty completes two big road projects in North Carolina worth $1.3bn Balfour Beatty has announced the opening of the Fayetteville Outer Loop and Havelock Bypass, each delivered for the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) for a total of $1.3bn. The…
News Jacobs designs historic storm barrier for busy Houston Ship Channel US engineer Jacobs will lead the design of a storm surge barrier across the two-mile-wide Bolivar Roads strait connecting the Gulf of Mexico to Galveston Bay in Texas. The Bolivar…
News Amazon to spend $12bn on Louisiana data centres Amazon will spend $12bn on data centre campuses in Bossier and Caddo parishes in Louisiana to boost its AI and cloud computing services. Stack Infrastructure, an industry specialist, will build…
News Turner Construction breaks ground $10bn US Meta data centre Turner Construction has begun construction on a $10bn, four-million-sq-ft data centre campus on behalf of Meta in Lebanon, Indiana. The facility will have a 1GW computing capacity to support AI…
Markets Skanska VP on uncertainty in the US construction market Sean Szatkowski, executive vice president and general manager of Skanska USA Building in New York, tells GCR about labour and material shortages, tariffs and other challenges. Skanska USA has recently…
News Webuild hits the road in Virginia Italy’s Webuild has won a $389m contract through its US subsidiary Lane Construction to widen the Interstate 64 in Virginia. Working on behalf of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Lane…
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 Second sphere planned in US Plans have been announced for a second giant spherical shaped venue in National Harbor, Maryland, just south of Washington DC. The new sphere would be smaller than the existing, 20,000-capacity…
News Ontario hires team to probe feasibility of major east-west Canadian pipeline Move comes amid hostile US policies and talk of Canada becoming “51st state”. Infrastructure Ontario has picked a team including AtkinsRéalis, GHD, Ernst & Young, Wood, Turner & Townsend, and…
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 Biggest US semiconductor factory to break ground this week US chipmaker Micron Technology says work will start this Friday on the biggest semiconductor manufacturing facility in the country in Clay, outside Syracuse in New York State. Also the biggest…
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 Trump threatens Fed chair with criminal investigation over $2.5bn renovation Jerome Powell, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve – the body that sets interest rates in the US – has hit back at threats of criminal…
News Governor signs off $101m for New York rail and port upgrades New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has allocated $101m for 25 rail and port upgrades. The Long Island Rail Road will get $10m to upgrade the Fresh Pond Yard and…
News Fishy work: Skanska to expand Florida aquarium and science centre Skanska has been selected by the Cox Science Center and Aquarium to deliver a major expansion of its campus in West Palm Beach, including an 86,000-sq-ft, two-story Hall of Science.…
News Sinking expectations: Two-thirds of US firms fear recession in 2026 Demand for data centers and power facilities may be spiralling, but contractors have “dampened” expectations for 2026 amid fears over recession, tariffs, ICE raids and trouble finding qualified workers, a…
News Skanska wins two US contracts worth $293m 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…