Perspectives I run this company. Here are my top three tips for women in construction Dawn Lowers-Davis is President and CEO of Lowers Welding & Fabrication, a family firm founded in 1973 in Santa Fe Springs, California. Construction is part of who I am. My…
News Turner to build $2bn Ohio data centre campus Turner Construction has broken ground on a $2bn data centre campus in New Albany, central Ohio. The project, which is for IT services company Vantage, will have a floor area…
News Skanska completes $233m Boston school in time for the bell Skanska’s programme management group, Skanska Integrated Solutions, has finished the new Josiah Quincy Upper School in Boston’s Chinatown in time for the 2024 school year, earning praise from the city.…
News Work is finished on Studio Gang’s mass-timber extension for Californian art college Work has been completed on an expansion designed by New York architect Studio Gang for the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The concrete ground-floor level houses workshops…
News Herzog & de Meuron to turn a brutalist icon into Sotheby’s New York HQ Swiss architect Herzog & de Meuron and New York’s PBDW Architects have been selected to renovate 945 Madison Avenue in New York City into the headquarters of art broker Sotheby’s.…
News Balfour Beatty wins $746m contract to unclog Austin’s I-35 UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has won a $746m contract from the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to upgrade part of the Interstate 35 (I-35) through Austin, Texas. It will rebuild around…
News Microsoft is building a timber data centre Microsoft is building a data centre with some cross-laminated timber (CLT) as it tries to become carbon-negative by 2030. The demonstration project in northern Virginia will aim to use enough…
News US-Chinese team to masterplan a science district in Hangzhou US architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and Chinese designer GAD have won a competition to masterplan a research district in the city of Hangzhou, about 100km west of Shanghai.…
News KPF’s Fifth Avenue tower is ‘modern interpretation’ of the iconic Manhattan skyscraper KPF’s 1,002ft-tall 520 Fifth Avenue tower has topped out in Manhattan, allowing New Yorkers to admire tiered setbacks and grand arched windows that recall the city’s classic beaux-arts skyscrapers. This…
News Webuild wins $190m Florida interstate contract Webuild subsidiary Lane Construction has won a $190m contract to upgrade Interstate 4 in Polk County, Florida. Lane’s scope of work includes a reconstruction of the existing interchange to accommodate…
News Snøhetta reveals its design for the Omaha Children’s Museum Norwegian architect Snøhetta has unveiled its design for a children’s museum, to be located in Omaha, Nebraska, on the banks of the Missouri. The four-storey Omaha Children’s Museum and public…
News Balfour Beatty unveils $338m of US education projects in one week UK-headquartered contractor Balfour Beatty this week announced four education-related projects in the US together worth $338m. Three are residential and hospitality projects in Florida worth $168m, and the fourth is…
News Chinese contractor appeals $1.6bn Baha Mar damages ruling The Chinese contractor who built the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas has appealed the New York State Supreme Court judge’s ruling earlier this month that it owed the resort’s…
News Skanska picked for $435m Florida hospital Swedish contractor Skanska announced on Tuesday that it had signed a contract with Lee Health to build a hospital and office building in Fort Myers, Florida. The $435m project will…
News “Outright sabotage”: Why a judge ordered China Construction America to pay $1.6bn The New York State Supreme Court judge who ruled this month that contractor China Construction America (CCA) owed damages worth $1.6bn to the developer of the Baha Mar resort in…
News US company raises $2bn to boost power supply to its data centres US company DataBank has raised $2bn to spend on installing additional generating capacity for its fleet of data centres. The company intends to add 850MW to meet demand, which is…
News Judge orders Chinese contractor to pay $1.6bn over Baha Mar resort A New York State Supreme Court judge has ordered the subsidiary of a major Chinese contractor to pay the developer of the Baha Mar resort in the Bahamas damages of…
News Singapore firms pay $102m to US over Baltimore bridge collapse Two Singaporean companies who owned the ship that rammed into and brought down Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge have agreed to pay just under $102m to settle a claim filed…