Engineers have started building the United States’ first “microreactor”, a 1.5MW mobile nuclear reactor compact enough to be shipped in four standard shipping containers. BWXT Advanced Technologies is now fabricating…

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) has awarded a $414m contract to build the Franconia-Springfield rail bypass to a joint venture of FlatironDragados and Herzog. Located some 15 miles south…

The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is suing the Trump administration over what it called the administration’s “illegal termination” of around $4bn in federal grants awarded during the Biden administration…

Google and Brookfield Asset Management have announced a 20-year framework agreement for up to 3GW of hydropower to provide electricity to its datacentres. Initially, the US tech company will buy…

Skanska yesterday marked the topping out of the 35,768-sq-m Living and Learning Center, a student accommodation building for Boston’s Simmons University. It ceremonially placed the uppermost steel beam on the…

Webuild Group’s US subsidiary Lane has won a $337m contract to widen a 16km section of the I-85 highway in Gaston County, North Carolina, a busy commuter route in the…

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have earthquake-tested a 10-story, 100-foot-tall  steel structure, saying it’s the tallest steel structure ever tested with an earthquake simulator, also known as…

Californian contractor Granite has won a $111m contract from the Utah Department of Transportation for road works in the region. Granite’s scope of work includes 5km of rehabilitation work on…

No one welcomes construction disputes, but when the initiator is the President of the United States, it’s even less welcome. Last Thursday, President Donald Trump’s director of the Office of…

Construction has topped out on Skanska’s Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Biology building at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The three-storey building is made from cross-laminated timber and will…

UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has broken ground on a $260m luxury apartment building in southwestern Washington DC for developer Republic Properties. The 356-unit building at 1301 Maryland Avenue South West, called…

A joint venture between FlatironDragados and Skanska has landed a $1bn contract from the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to build the Long Bridge North railway bridge in Washington DC. The…

Ground has broken on a $750m expansion of White Plains Hospital in Westchester County, New York, designed by architects Payette with Suffolk Construction as construction manager. The 10-storey, 500,000-sq-ft expansion…

North America’s longest concrete segmental cable-stayed bridge opened to traffic on 28 June. The $1.3bn New Harbor Bridge over the ship channel at the port of Corpus Christi in Texas…

Turner Construction Company has been appointed overall site manager on the 17.5-acre “One Beverly Hills” scheme in Beverly Hills, California, masterplanned by UK-headquartered architect Foster + Partners. Turner will be…

The owner of a New York rigging contractor was sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation after pleading guilty to stealing $169,500 from seven of his employees.…

US construction spending in May saw its biggest year-on-year slump in six years as developers delay or cancel projects amid confusion over US President Donald Trump’s policies on tariffs, labour…

Tutor Perini has won a $1.87bn contract to construct the Staging and Storage Facility and Ramp Structure components of the Midtown Bus Terminal Redevelopment Program in New York City. Tutor…