News Flatiron JV wins $450m Triangle Expressway extension A joint venture of Flatiron, Fred Smith Company, and designer ICE of the Carolinas has won the $449.9m Triangle Expressway Southeast Extension project in North Carolina. It will add 6.6…
News Arcadis team wins role on $16bn New York transport corridor A joint venture between Dutch engineer Arcadis, British contractor Mace and American consultant Parsons has been chosen as the delivery partner for the $16bn Hudson Tunnel Project. The scheme involves…
News Construction bosses plead guilty in $100m bid rigging case Four executives in Oklahoma have pleaded guilty to rigging bids and fixing prices on more than $100m worth of public transportation infrastructure contracts in the state. Stanley Mark Smith, a…
News Skanska starts modifying MetLife Stadium for 2026 World Cup Skanska has begun modifying the capacity of the lower bowl of New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium to meet FIFA requirements ahead of the 2026 World Cup. New York and New Jersey…
News Team selected for $5bn children’s hospital in Dallas A joint venture between McCarthy Building and JT Vaughn Construction will construction manage a 4.5 million sq ft children’s hospital in Dallas. The 552-bed paediatric campus be an addition to…
Companies Vinci buys concession for busy Denver toll road Vinci Highways has agreed to buy NWP HoldCo, the company holding the concession for Denver’s tolled Northwest Parkway, a 14-km section of the city’s ring road. NWP HoldCo is currently…
News Google set to move into renovated 1930s train terminal in New York Work has been completed on a 1930s train terminal in New York’s Tribeca neighbourhood that is to become to 3,000 Google staff. The St John’s Terminal (SJT) was the last…
News Lego names project manager and contractor for $1bn Virginia factory The Lego Group has announced a project manager and main contractor for its $1bn factory project in the US state of Virginia, but said the main construction phase would begin…
News Construction starts on Foster’s “oasis” in Beverly Hills Construction has begun on the 17.5-acre “One Beverly Hills”, a mixed-use project with a hotel, two residential towers, retail pavilion, conference centre and botanical gardens, designed by UK-headquartered architect Foster…
News AstraZeneca to build $300m cell therapy facility in Maryland UK pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has announced plans to build a $300m cell therapy facility in the city of Rockville, Maryland. The 84,000 sq ft site will research the immune system’s…
Projects JV starts building $819m Potomac River Tunnel to curb sewage spills A joint venture of CBNA and Halmar supported by engineers Cowi and Hatch has started an $819m design-build contract for the 5.5-mile-long Potomac River Tunnel, intended to control sewage overflows…
News Skanska wins contracts in Arizona and Warsaw Skanska has been awarded a data centre in Arizona and has taken a stake in a residential project in Warsaw. In the US, the company has signed a $87m deal…
News Bjarke Ingels Group unveils its design for Manhattan’s Freedom Plaza Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has unveiled its design for the “Freedom Plaza”, a civic and cultural hub on the shores of Manhattan’s East River. The project, which is being developed…
News Flatiron wins American climate projects worth $327m Hochtief subsidiary Flatiron has won two climate adaptation and resilience projects worth $327m in Texas and Virginia. The City of Virginia Beach selected the company alongside Dutch consulting engineer Arcadis…
News $2.1bn deal agreed to replace Louisiana’s Calcasieu River Bridge A $2.1bn public-private agreement to replace the Calcasieu River Bridge in Louisiana, built in 1952, has reached commercial close. Technically structurally deficient, the bridge is a bottleneck on the Interstate…
News Skanska picked to revamp fuel system at LaGuardia Airport Skanska has won a $113m contract from LGA Fuel to build LaGuardia Airport’s new fuel transmission systems in Queens, New York. The work involves installing 11,000 feet of two parallel…
News US recovers $547,000 from firm that cheated its own workers The Department of Labour has helped 139 employees of a Guam-based contractor to recover $547,378 in back wages and liquidated damages. Ian Construction owed the workers $295,420 in back wages…
News Intel delays $20bn Ohio chip factory, citing slowing market US chipmaker Intel has delayed construction of a $20bn manufacturing facility in Ohio, according to the Wall Street Journal. Work has begun on the development, which Intel says it its…