Spanish contractor Acciona has won contracts for New York’s new Hip Hop Museum in the Bronx and the renovation of the Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island. At the Hip…

Texas-headquartered global engineer Fluor has announced two boardroom changes, with Jim Breuer appointed in the newly created Chief Operating Officer (COO) role and Kevin Hammonds taking over as Chief Legal…

Researchers at the University of Maine have released images of the 3D-printed, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough to replace steel-and-concrete floors in multi-storey buildings. The university worked…

AASHTO – the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials – has approved a Purdue University-invented device that uses vibrations to check when concrete has cured. After seven years…

Skanska has completed the $89m makeover of the University of New Hampshire’s Biological Sciences Building, Spaulding Hall, in Durham, New Hampshire. Designed by architects Ellenzweig to be LEED Silver certified,…

The City of Milwaukee has unveiled plans for a $700m downtown development which it says “could include” the tallest mass timber tower in the world and the tallest building in…

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the University of Maine have unveiled a 3D-printed, recyclable, natural-material floor cassette they say is strong enough…

Ground has been broken on a $3.7bn hospital extension at UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California. The 14-storey, 70m-high building was designed by SmithGroup and is being built by McCarthy…

Aecom will be lead designer for Washington State’s $1.375bn project to replace the 1960s-era Portage Bay Bridge in Seattle. It will work with contractor Skanska, which won the design-build contract…

Two well-known Chicago families have joined forces to plan a $7bn development on the city’s West Side, around the home ground of the Chicago Bulls basketball team. The Reinsdorfs, who…

A consortium containing US companies Tutor Perini and Parsons have been selected for the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of a 2.6km automated people mover for Inglewood in southwest…

An $800m project has been announced to replace the 75-year-old I-55 Bridge over the Mississippi between the states of Arkansas and Tennessee. Some $394m will come from the US Department…

German-Swiss equipment maker Liebherr has acquired 48ha of land in Tupelo, Mississippi, and plans to use it for a distribution centre and company campus. The aim is to stock and…

The US is planning to invest as much as $12.6bn in a programme of works that will turn the state of California into a hydrogen hub. The project will receive…

A flagship project of President Joe Biden’s $1.3 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is accelerating this summer, a senior project leader tells GCR. Amtrak’s $6bn programme to…

A joint venture between Californian contractor Granite and civil engineer Kraemer North America has won a $113m project from the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to remove and replace the…

Rescuers have now found the bodies of 15 people who died when a highway bridge collapsed in flash floods in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Xinhua reports. Many are still missing…

Sempra Infrastructure has awarded Bechtel Energy a fixed-price engineering, procurement and construction contract for the Port Arthur LNG Phase 2 project in Texas, intended to increase LNG exports. The value…