Fourteen people were hospitalised at a construction project in New Haven, Connecticut, after potentially fatal levels of carbon monoxide accumulated in a building undergoing renovation, AP reports.  The cause of…

Japanese house manufacturer Sekisui House has agreed to buy US housebuilding giant MDC Holdings for $4.9bn. Sekisui House said the acquisition would make it the fifth largest housebuilder in the…

A 96-unit apartment complex built with Lego-style, snap-together blocks has opened its doors to residents in Palm Springs, Florida. It was put up by a small crew of unskilled workers…

Clark Construction Group has been selected by the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Department of Veterans Affairs for a $618m veterans’ health centre in El Paso, Texas. The…

US employers group the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) and its Louisiana chapter filed suit this week in federal court to block the Biden administration’s effort to mandate project…

Kathy Hochul, New York’s governor, announced that $16m would spent to fund the testing of the “+ POOL”, a swimming pool in the shape of a plus that floats in…

Data centre developer EdgeCore Digital Infrastructure has raised $1.9bn, partly from a “green loan”, to build a facility in Mesa, southern Arizona. The project will be part of a 3.1…

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has bought a disused shopping mall in West Los Angeles for $700m to turn it into a cutting edge research hub. With $500m…

The state of California launched a website yesterday tracking the progress of state and federal infrastructure projects and how taxpayers’ money is being spent on them. The build.ca.gov site aims…

Amtrak and its partners have received just over $2.1bn in grants from the Federal Railroad Administration to improve and expand Amtrak services across the US. Of that, $2bn will go…

A Florida woman has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the US and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison…

A construction firm in Long Island, New York pleaded guilty on Friday (5 January) to three criminal charges after a worker fell from a roof on the company’s own property…

Los Angeles transit authority LA Metro has picked an Aecom-led joint venture to advance plans for a bus rapid transit system along Vermont Avenue, one of the city’s most congested…

The Gordie Howe cable-stayed bridge under construction between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan is 10 months behind schedule and C$700m over budget, the authority building it has said. Funded by…

Californian EV maker Rivian has selected Chicago contractor Clayco to build a 1,800-acre manufacturing plant outside Atlanta, Georgia. The company, which makes SUVs and pick-ups, had previously planned to build…

Skanska has won a hospital expansion in Oregon, a Marine Operations Centre in Rhode Island and a war memorial restoration in Tennessee. The schemes have a total value of $428m.…

The US has earmarked $225m for a 75km rail line connecting a future transport hub in Lviv, western Ukraine, to the EU’s Trans-European Network. The memorandum of understanding was signed…

Average wages for US construction site and office workers rose by 5.9% over the year to November, hitting $34.96 an hour, says employers group the Associated General Contractors of America…