The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) yesterday raised nearly $93m in an auction for two lease areas for wind power sites off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and…

The Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska reopens next month with the new, 42,000-sq-ft addition – the Rhonda & Howard Hawks Pavilion – designed by Norwegian architect Snøhetta with local…

Balfour Beatty US has begun building a $140m pedestrian walkway at Sacramento International Airport (SMF). The 400m-long skybridge will connect terminal B to concourse B, leading to an existing automated…

A neglected and flood-prone neighbourhood in the Borough of Queens in New York City is getting a $51.8m overhaul to help it cope with worsening rain brought by climate change.…

An Oklahoma contractor specialising in erosion control on highway projects has been charged, along with its vice president and another employee, with a price-fixing conspiracy targeting more than $100m worth…

At least 100 homes have been damaged by flooding in the Alaskan capital of Juneau after rain and meltwater caused the local river to burst its banks in an incident…

Flatiron and Dragados in North America are merging to create what their owners say will be “the second largest civil engineering and construction company in the United States”. The new…

A 29-year-old worker has died on a construction project at Florida’s Tampa International Airport after the machine he was operating fell from the airport’s shuttle track with him inside just…

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…