The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ bassist, “Flea” (aka Michael Balzary), has won praise for spearheading the renovation of a children’s playground in a Los Angeles neighbourhood previously associated with social…

The state of California will issue new rules limiting the embodied carbon allowed in commercial buildings larger than 100,000-sq-ft in area and school projects over 50,000-sq-ft. Embodied carbon means the…

The University of Illinois will build a research and development centre for autonomous construction technologies at the facility’s Grainger College of Engineering. The Center for Autonomous Construction in Manufacturing at…

The Tennessee Builders Alliance (TBA), a team including heavyweights Aecom and Turner Construction will be the construction manager at risk for the Tennessee Titans’ new stadium. Nashville-headquartered ICF Builders and…

Turner Construction has been awarded a $389m contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers to build two structures at the Offutt Air Base outside Omaha, Nebraska to increase flood…

Bechtel yesterday started building the Mobile Launcher 2 project at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida for Nasa’s Artemis mission to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars. It…

Skanska USA says it has completed a three-story, 69,000-square-foot medical building nearly three months ahead of schedule, with a $3m cost saving to the client despite the covid pandemic and…

The US Department of Labor (DOL) has updated the so-called prevailing wage rule for federally funded construction projects, saying people working on them would earn “thousands of extra dollars” a…

Chicago architect Studio Gang is to design an expansion of the Clinton Presidential Centre in Arkansas. The Hillary Rodham Clinton Institute will be added as a repository of the former…

Almost all land reclamation projects under way in Manila Bay have been put on hold pending a government review, the Philippine Inquirer reports. The move came a week after the…

US politicians are seeking $1.1bn to improve Illinois’ rail infrastructure and upgrade Chicago’s Union Station. Among those calling for the funding are state governor JB Pritzker, US senators Tammy Duckworth…

Louisiana’s Department of Transportation has picked a consortium with which to negotiate exclusively for a $2.1bn replacement of the Calcasieu River Bridge, built in 1951 to connect the cities of…

Swedish contractor Skanska has landed a $215m contract with biotechnology company Seagen to build it a 25,000 sq m biomanufacturing facility. The plant is in the city of Everett, about…

A team led by Spanish designer Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos has won a competition to modernise and extend the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), beating a shortlist that included David Chipperfield…

Webuild’s US subsidiary, Lane Construction, has won a $102m design-build project to overhaul a traffic-clogged highway interchange feeding Disney and other resorts in Orange County, Florida. Every day, more than…

Boston’s mayor’s office has issued an executive order forbidding the use of fossil fuels during construction and major renovation projects on city-owned buildings. The move is effective for all new…

The US Embassy in the Philippines yesterday told local media that it was concerned about the large number of reclamation projects underway in Manila Bay. It said it was worried…

Skanska has signed a $70m contract with Lehigh University to comprehensively redevelop the historic Clayton University Center on its campus in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Formerly known as Packer Hall, the building…