News $10bn data centre campus for Iowa American data centre company Quality Technology Services (QTS) has announced a $10bn campus in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Developed in partnership with the City of Cedar Rapids, the 612-acre site will…
News Airport breaks record installing huge terminal modules Six huge, prefabricated structural modules have been placed onto foundations to form the framework for the first phase of Dallas Fort Worth’s (DFW) new Terminal F. They were moved overnight…
News Jacobs lands $150m Denver Airport contract US engineer Jacobs has won a contract to build a car rental building and a transport link to the main terminal at Denver International Airport. The project will consolidate all…
News Robotic micro-factory deployed for Los Angeles wildfires rebuild ABB Robotics is working with San Francisco’s Cosmic Buildings to build modular structures on site in Pacific Palisades as the Los Angeles neighbourhood recovers from January’s devastating wildfires. The AI-enabled…
News Turner tops out West Point stadium for Army Black Knights Turner Construction has topped out renovation work at the Michie Stadium, home ground for the Army Black Knights, the football team of the United States Military Academy in West Point,…
News Aecom, Clark lead Trump’s $200m White House ballroom revamp Donald Trump’s White House says it will build a standalone, 90,000-sq-ft ballroom able to accommodate 650 people, replacing the current 200-capacity venue situated in the White House’s East Room. Clark…
News Meta pledges sustainable mass timber data centres Technology giant Meta is trialling mass timber for an administrative building at a data centre campus in Aiken, South Carolina. This year, the company plans to build mass timber buildings…
News Mars invests $2bn in US manufacturing US food company Mars, the company behind Snickers, M&Ms, Royal Canin and Sheba, says it will spend $2bn building factories in the US by 2026. This May, it opened the…
News Aecom wins three US Army Corp contracts worth $400m Aecom have won three architect-engineer’s on-demand contracts from the US Army Corps of Engineers with a ceiling value of $400m for facilities modernisation in the US Pacific. The type of…
News Construction boss could face prison over payroll tax and fraud charges A construction boss in the US could face prison after being charged with failing to pay years of employee payroll taxes, scheming to defraud a construction contractor of millions of…
News Turner JV leads $700m overhaul of Memphis International Airport A joint venture of Turner Construction Company, Ardmore Roderick, and Chris Woods Construction – known as the TAC Team – is leading the $700m Terminal Modernisation and Seismic Programme at…
News US labour and materials costs rise as builders await tariffs The cost of materials and services used in nonresidential construction in the US rose 0.2% from May to June and 2.3% from June last year, the biggest 12-month increase since…
News Jacobs picked to design Seattle’s $7.1bn light rail extension Dallas-based engineer Jacobs has been selected by Sound Transit to provide design services for a 6.6km expansion of Seattle’s light rail network to the west of the city. The project,…
News Cowi’s people crossing liberates walkers in California Cyclists and pedestrians can now cross a busy road without risking life and limb in San Ramon, California thanks to a $21.6m bridge designed by Danish consulting engineer Cowi. Opened…
News Turner JV lands role on $6bn data centre scheme in Pennsylvania A joint venture of Turner Construction and Wohlsen Construction has won a contract to build a 100MW data centre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for AI company CoreWeave, which says it will…
News Gilbane to build 1,000 houses on $1bn Virginia development US contractor Gilbane has been selected to build 1,000 homes across 55 acres for the $1bn redevelopment of Calvert Square and Young Terrace in Norfolk, Virginia. The development aims to…
News Webuild wins $238m Florida interstate job The US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild has won a $238m design-and-build contract to expand the Interstate 75 in north-central Florida. Lane Construction will provide auxiliary lanes between interchanges, bridge replacements,…
News US in race to build first ‘microreactor’ by 2028 Engineers have started building the United States’ first “microreactor”, a 1.5MW mobile nuclear reactor compact enough to be shipped in four standard shipping containers. BWXT Advanced Technologies is now fabricating…