New York has become the first US state to pause approvals of all new hyperscale data centres because of growing concerns over their use of energy and water. Governor Kathy…

A recently completed highway in Morocco has been renamed in honour of the sitting US president after Morocco was granted sovereignty over the previously disputed Western Sahara in 2020, following…

Sacramento’s first permitted concrete-printed home has been completed in 12 days by Californian companies K4K Construction and RIC Robotics. They say the project sets a permitting precedent that could support…

Sheldon Whitehouse, a US senator for Rhode Island and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has issued an open letter to the Kennedy Center for…

Ground has broken on the final commercial building at the World Trade Center campus redevelopment in Manhattan. It will take the place of Two World Trade Center, the south tower…

Authorities ordered the evacuation of streets and buildings in part of Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Tuesday 7 July over fears that a 37-storey office tower being converted to…

Autonomous robots are helping to deliver Cleora, a 55-acre residential printed development in Salida, Colorado with 106 homes. California’s RIC Robotics deployed two autonomous printing systems to print 65 of…

France’s Bouygues Construction has completed the acquisition of American contractor Vannoy Construction, in order to boost its presence in the southeastern United States. Bouygues says that demographic and economic growth…

Californian contractor Granite has won the $116.9m West Davis Corridor contract from the Utah Department of Transportation to extend the recently completed highway by 4.8km. Located in West Point, Utah,…

US transport secretary Sean P. Duffy is allocating $1.86bn to repair roads, bridges and other transport infrastructure damaged by natural disasters. $908m of the funding will be spent fixing damage…

Skanska USA has released its Spring 2026 Construction Market Trends Report analysing material costs, the impact of tariffs, a changing labour market and regional and sector growth across the country.

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Micron Technology has picked Bechtel to build the first phase of what’s billed as the US’ biggest semiconductor plant in Clay, New York. Bechtel will use digital-enabled construction technologies, modularisation…

Detroit-headquartered contractor Wallbridge has broken ground on a $16bn, 1GW data centre called The Barn in Saline, Michigan developed by Related Digital for Oracle and Open AI. The 250-acre campus…

A US consortium of Kiewit, Stacy Witbeck and Herzog has won a contract to install the track, catenary system and communications infrastructure on a 192km stretch of guideway under construction…

A 50/50 joint venture between Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane Construction and Brayman Construction Corporation has signed a $1bn contract to deliver the Ohio River Tunnel clean-water project in Pennsylvania. Located…

Two Democratic representatives, Don Beyer and John B Larson, will introduce a bill to block the construction of President Trump’s 250ft-tall “Triumphal Arch”, planned on Memorial Circle, a roundabout near…

Earlier this month, Eco Material Technologies, the sustainable cement subsidiary of Dublin-headquartered materials giant CRH, opened an expanded materials testing and research facility at its campus in Taylorsville, Georgia. It…

The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) and Amtrak have appointed “Penn Transformation Partners”, a team of Halmar and Sweden’s Skanska, to be master developer for the $6bn renovation of New…