US house builders have welcomed Donald Trump’s 30-day pause on his plan to impose 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico, but they urge more dialogue to make the…

Californian contractor Granite has signed an $88m contract with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) to expand a section of the Ortega Highway State Route 74 near to Lake Elsinore.…

Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, announced Saturday, will raise the cost of vital materials used in residential construction and fuel the housing affordability crisis,…

Construction is about to begin on a 465,000 sq m military drone factory on a 200ha plot in Ohio for defence company Anduril, estimated to cost almost $1bn. The plant…

Donald Trump has ordered the construction of a detention camp with 30,000 beds at the US navy’s Guantánamo Bay base in Cuba. The intention is to use it as a…

Turner Construction Company has topped out one of the new buildings going up at the flood-ravaged Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Nebraska. Vertical construction is now finished at the…

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…