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…

The foundations have been laid for what has been described as the world’s largest building, according to Elon Musk – the 100-million-sq-ft Terafab project, a semiconductor factory in Texas being…

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…