American football team the Chicago Bears has announced a $4.2bn stadium, to be designed by Kansas City firm Manica Architecture. The development will be located on the waterfront and will…

Police in Florida have arrested 16 men in a sting operation designed to detect contractors trading illegally. The sting was carried out in Manatee County over three days in April.…

Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane Construction has won a $110m design-bid-build project in Hampton City, Virginia, to complete the “Newport News Segment” on Interstate 64 from west of Denbigh Boulevard in…

Norwegian energy company Equinor has chosen Skanska for a $861m project to turn the 73-acre South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in New York into an “offshore wind port”. The scope includes…

AtkinsRéalis, formerly SNC-Lavalin, has opened its new $20m technology centre in Richland, Washington State. It’s intended to develop innovative techniques for nuclear and environmental cleanup, clean energy, digital, and robotics.…

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has unveiled Foster + Partners’ design for a 487m-tall office tower in Manhattan, set to be the second tallest in the city after One…

Turner Construction has won three contracts from three US colleges: the University of California Merced, the University of Kentucky and Case Western Reserve University. In California, Turner will provide construction…

Construction has begun on the US’ first true high-speed rail line, a 351km link between Las Vegas and Southern California. The $12bn Brightline West, which will travel at speeds of…

The City of Anaheim, California, has voted to allow the Walt Disney Company’s $1.9bn DisneylandForward plan to go ahead. The details of Disney’s plans have not yet been finalised, according…

Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels Group, BNIM and the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design are collaborating on a 50,000 sq m mass-timber building for the university. The six-storey Makers’…

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has been chosen to design the three-storey Centre for Arts & Innovation in Boca Raton, southeast Florida. The centre’s main hall will be used for events,…

Architecture firm EskewDumezRipple has produced a concept design for the planned Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience Museum in New Orleans. The 120,000-sq-ft The Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience will be…

Hill International has won a three-year contract to provide on-call construction management for federally-funded projects for the Port of Oakland in California. Work could arise from maintaining the seaport, plus…

Work has paused at Vietnamese electric vehicle (EV) maker VinFast’s $4bn factory in North Carolina as officials review the company’s proposals to shrink it. Questions have been asked about the…

The US government is to spend $830m on mitigating the effects of climate change on road and rail systems. The money will go on 80 projects to protect transport from…

Cambodia will start work this year on a controversial plan to dig a 180km canal to link Phnom Penh to the sea, The Star newspaper reports.  The Funan Techo canal,…

A new company that makes lower-carbon cement from the carbon dioxide captured from the flue of a conventional cement plant has opened its first facility in Redding, California. The new…

The US government has awarded Samsung $6.4bn to build extra chip fabrication facilities at the giant factory the Korean company is already building in Taylor, near Austin, Texas. In exchange,…