The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC), a US trade body, has predicted that 439,000 extra workers will be required to meet demand for construction services this year, rising to 499,000…

Ageing US bridges gave Swedish group Skanska a big start to the year as it announced two bridge projects this month worth a combined $670m. In North Carolina, it won…

Swedish contractor Skanska has won a $91m contract to build a 7,000 sq m meat science and technology centre at Texas A&M University. The facility will be located at the…

Amid a blizzard of executive orders issued on Monday after his inauguration, US President Donald Trump moved to halt the development of offshore wind power by temporarily suspending the sale…

With Donald Trump threatening to “take back” the Panama Canal from China, Nicaragua has changed its constitution to let the regime of Daniel Ortega grant a concession to a company…

A coalition of engineers led by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has applied to the Department of Energy for an $800m grant to speed up the development of small modular…

A contractor hired for a radiation clean-up project at a former shipyard in San Francisco has agreed to pay $97m after a 12-year legal battle. According to a Securities and…

Turner Construction has broken ground on a $780m soccer stadium for New York City FC in Willets Point, Queens. Etihad Park will become the city’s first stadium dedicated to (non-American)…

Ground broke last week on an affordable housing development for seniors on land owned by a church in Nashville, Tennessee. The collaboratively-funded initiative is billed as a model for more…

A joint venture between Turner Construction and the Weitz Company has reached structural completion on a $445m expansion of Des Moines International Airport in Iowa. The project will increase the…

Ground has been broken on a teaching facility for advanced manufacturing, designed for the University of Maine by UK architect Grimshaw in association with engineers SMRT of Singapore and the…

A 1.2ha extension of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has been designed by Mexican architect Frida Escobedo to house part of the museum’s 20th and 21st-century collection. The wing…

Microsoft has paused construction work for its planned second phase of a data centre for artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing in Racine County, Wisconsin. The company said in an…

California governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order intended to speed up reconstruction and reduce price gouging once the Californian wildfires are extinguished. The order will suspend aspects of…

The owner of two construction companies in Massachusetts has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervision after being found guilty of tax and mail fraud.…

As southern California braces for worsening wind conditions amid ongoing wildfire devastation, the estimated value of the total damage and economic loss has risen to between $250bn and $275bn, forecaster…

Norwegian energy company Equinor has secured $3bn in project financing for its project to build a wind farm off the coast of New York City. The Empire Wind 1 scheme…

As wildfires rage in desiccated southern California around Los Angeles, the state is looking to hire a construction manager at-risk (CMAR) for a $3bn project to build a large reservoir…