New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration’s stop-work orders on two major offshore wind projects set to power more than a million…

Jerome Powell, chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve – the body that sets interest rates in the US – has hit back at threats of criminal…

New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has allocated $101m for 25 rail and port upgrades. The Long Island Rail Road will get $10m to upgrade the Fresh Pond Yard and…

Skanska has been selected by the Cox Science Center and Aquarium to deliver a major expansion of its campus in West Palm Beach, including an 86,000-sq-ft, two-story Hall of Science.…

Demand for data centers and power facilities may be spiralling, but contractors have “dampened” expectations for 2026 amid fears over recession, tariffs, ICE raids and trouble finding qualified workers, a…

Skanska has won two US contracts worth a total of $293m. The biggest is a $228m contract to build a data centre on behalf of an unnamed, previous client, which…

Just before Christmas, the Trump administration renewed its attack on major offshore wind schemes. One is 87% complete. Developers are fighting back. Two major offshore wind developers, Ørsted and Equinor,…

Canada’s WSP plans to become the biggest engineering and design consultant in the US by acquiring engineering firm TRC Companies for a total cash purchase price of US$3.3bn. Founded some…

Aecom has won a 10-year contract worth up to $270m from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for architecture and engineering services across the agency’s eastern, central and western regions.…

A team of SPC Construction and Lane Construction, the US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild, has completed work on the Unionport Bridge, which spans the Westchester Creek in the Bronx. The…

Swedish contractor and developer Skanska has had a busy couple of weeks, notching up three contracts and one commercial property sale in Europe and the US – together worth US$765m.…

US contractors’ body the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has again called for an end to tariff confusion after September data showed steep price rises in several crucial material…

US construction unions and associations are in shock after a 20-year-old female welder was murdered at work in Minnesota by a co-worker, who reportedly told police he didn’t like her.…

A joint venture between Turner Construction and Walsh Construction has topped out construction of Ryan Field, a privately funded, 35,000-seat, $850m stadium in Evanston, Illinois. Taking the place of the…

In a vivid sign of how demand for computing is driving a resurgence of US nuclear power, the Trump administration yesterday agreed a $1bn loan to help reboot the mothballed…

Data has begun seeping out of US federal agencies again after the longest shutdown in history, and the picture for August – the latest month for which numbers are available…

Boeing has kicked off construction on a major expansion of its South Carolina operations that will ramp up 787 Dreamliner production to 10 jets per month by 2026. The company…

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has announced a $45bn investment blueprint for the region’s airports, bus infrastructure, railways and ports between 2026 and 2035. The so-called…