News Skanska and Walsh team land $1.29bn Hudson River tunnel contract A team of US companies Traylor Bros. and Walsh Construction alongside Sweden’s Skanska has won a $1.29bn contract to build a segment of New York’s Hudson Tunnel Project. It’s the…
News Work starts on California’s Olympic cricket stadium, marking return of the sport after 128 years Construction has begun on a cricket stadium in California at Pomona, 50km east of downtown Los Angeles, set to host matches in the 2028 Summer Olympics. The globally popular sport,…
News Tutor Perini ordered to pay developer $174m in damages over hotel project US contractor Tutor Perini has been ordered to pay more than $174m in damages for breaching its contract to build a 52-story, 755-room twin hotel development in Philadelphia. According to…
News Bouygues team lands €1.45bn contract to rehabilitate 10 hurricane-damaged schools A joint venture of Bouygues Construction subsidiary Americaribe, Suffolk Construction and Florida architectural firm Zyscovich has won two design and build contracts in the US Virgin Islands worth a total…
News Webuild lands €509m Florida highway contract Italy’s Webuild has won a €509m design and build contract through its US subsidiary Lane Construction to expand and modernise a segment of the Interstate 4 in Florida. Working on…
News Skanska wins three contracts worth $313m in Sweden and US Skanska recently won three contracts, two in the US and one in Sweden, together worth US$313m. The hat trick includes a university research centre in Texas, a pedestrian bridge in…
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…