The US Department of Transport has awarded grants worth a total of $6.1bn to two high-speed rail schemes in California. The money was disbursed under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law enacted…

US contractor Hensel Phelps has been chosen as construction manager for a $2.5bn 17-gate terminal at San Antonio International Airport. The company will carry out 85% of the work, which…

American architect Studio Gang has revealed its design for a theatre campus in the town of Garrison, in New York State. The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival project is anchored by…

A team comprising UK architect Foster + Partners and US firms CannonDesign and Gilbane Building have been picked for a $5bn healthcare project in the city of Rochester, Minnesota. Healthcare…

The board of US chemical company Dow has given the green light to a US$6.5bn petrochemical plant in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. Dow said the ethylene cracker and derivatives plant will…

An Orlando businessman will serve up to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the US government of $3.5m in tax revenue. Wendel Algarin was found guilty of aiding…

The final steel beam for 270 Park Avenue has been lifted into place, marking the topping out of JPMorgan Chase’s 423m skyscraper in Manhattan, designed by UK architect Foster +…

A US start-up selling a Lego-style, interlocking block system for residential construction has had a very good few months. Last week, Renco USA cut the ribbon on its first development…

Restoration work has been completed on Lever House, an icon of 20th-century modernism in Midtown Manhattan. The 94m-high office was completed in 1952 for soap company Lever Brothers, and the…

Developers Ivanhoé Cambridge and Shea Properties are celebrating the completion of “Sixth & Jackson”, a two-building, six-story, 518-unit, mixed-use project in the Californian city of San Jose’s historic Japantown. They…

US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has announced plans to invest $2.5bn in a factory in western Germany. The plant, in the town of Alzey in the Rhineland-Palatinate, will meet growing…

Three former executives of a San Francisco planning and design firm have been charged with bribing employees of the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI). Prosecutors claim they paid…