US engineering giant Bechtel has launched the “Build for More” campaign to encourage students into the skilled trades in Wyoming, while investing $1m in two community colleges in the state.…

A joint venture of Gilbane and Turner Construction has topped out the $1.7bn Wadsworth Center Laboratory in Albany, New York, a five-storey 663,000-sq-ft public health laboratory. The new facility will…

American pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has broken ground on a $6.5bn Houston factory that will make Foundayo (orforglipron), the company’s first synthetic oral GLP-1 variant for treatment of type 2…

Skanska has won five contracts across the US this month together worth $682m. They are: a $271m contract to build a new pier at a naval station in Rhode Island;…

US equipment maker Caterpillar plans to invest $1bn to expand its manufacturing plant in Sanford, North Carolina with a new facility producing compact track loaders and telehandlers to meet increased…

The Brownsville Multi-Service Center, a four-floor, 60,000-sq-ft community space in Brooklyn, New York, has been delivered two years ahead of schedule and $10m under budget. The $180m development contains 10…

Main contractor Suffolk Construction, which has offices across the US, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to produce a report on how specifically AI can boost…

The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, co-founded by director George Lucas who created the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises, has opened to the public in Los Angeles’ Exposition Park.…

Robotic home-builder Reframe Systems, a company founded by former Amazon Robotics executives, will use a new $40m tranche of equity financing to build a second automated component factory in Massachusetts.…

A joint venture between Skanska USA and rail contractor Stacy Witbeck has won a $2.4bn contract to build 10.7km of light railway in the San Fernando Valley, California. Working for…

Aerospace manufacturer SpaceX plans to build the world’s biggest spaceport at a cost of $100bn in Vermilion Parish on Louisiana’s Gulf coast. The development will be SpaceX’s fourth launch site…

A former Ku Klux Klan headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas will be refurbished as an arts and cultural centre with areas dedicated to communities targeted by violence and exclusion including…

A joint venture between US companies FlatironDragados and Sukut Construction has been selected through a best-value procurement process to deliver the $1.9bn Anderson Dam Seismic Retrofit project in Morgan Hill,…

A Democratic senator from Nevada has introduced legislation aiming to reduce suicides among construction workers by authorising a study into the risks they face. The study conducted by the Centers…

730 Stanyan, a mixed-use development with 160 affordable apartments has been completed in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood. Designed by Netherlands-headquartered architects OMA and San Francisco’s Y.A. Studio, the project was…

American technology giant Meta has teamed up with North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU) to invest in skilled trades. The contract will build on Meta’s “Future Is For Everyone Fund”…

In 2020, Skanska USA completed the $165m, top-to-bottom redesign of the Empire State Building in New York City. A 2023 report by UBS states that partial retrofits can create energy…

Dream Finders Homes is set to buy Beazer Homes USA in an all cash deal worth approximately $2.2bn, with Beazer shareholders receiving $33.50 for each share of common stock, a…