Swedish contractor and developer Skanska has had a busy couple of weeks, notching up three contracts and one commercial property sale in Europe and the US – together worth US$765m.…

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…

US construction unions and associations are in shock after a 20-year-old female welder was murdered at work in Minnesota by a co-worker, who reportedly told police he didn’t like her.…

A joint venture between Turner Construction and Walsh Construction has topped out construction of Ryan Field, a privately funded, 35,000-seat, $850m stadium in Evanston, Illinois. Taking the place of the…

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…

Data has begun seeping out of US federal agencies again after the longest shutdown in history, and the picture for August – the latest month for which numbers are available…

Boeing has kicked off construction on a major expansion of its South Carolina operations that will ramp up 787 Dreamliner production to 10 jets per month by 2026. The company…

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced a $45bn investment blueprint for the region’s airports, bus infrastructure, railways and ports between 2026 and 2035. The so-called…

Vantage Data Centers says it will invest $2bn in a data centre campus in Stafford County, Virginia. Called VA4, the project involves three data centres on 82 acres with a…

Energy firm Doral Renewables has picked Bechtel to design and build the Cold Creek solar power and energy storage project in Schleicher and Tom Green counties, Texas. The facility will…

Sweden’s Skanska has won a project management contract for a $312m, 420-bed women’s prison in Chesterfield Township, New Jersey. Skanska Integrated Solutions (SIS) is providing owner’s representative services to assist…

The US government has announced an $80bn partnership with Westinghouse, uranium company Cameco, and Brookfield Asset Management to build a wave of new nuclear reactors across the US. Designed to…

A section of a 2.25-mile-long series of interconnected parks that act as a flood defence in Manhattan, New York, has opened to the public. It’s officially called the East Side…

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…

Cascade Nuclear Partners (CNP), a joint venture of Canada’s Aecon and US firms Black & Veatch and Kiewit, has won a planning, design and construction contract for four small modular…

Bechtel has identified seven factors leading to the deaths of three workers building phase 1 of the Port Arthur liquid natural gas terminal in Jefferson County, Texas on 29 April…

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is celebrating a crucial railway bridge replacement project that it says is $93m under budget and a whopping 51 months ahead of schedule. The…

Caterpillar, the world’s biggest construction equipment maker, says it will spend $100m on training over the next five years in the US. Its “workforce pledge” starts with $5m for training…