Officials in New York praised luck after a tower crane’s engine compartment burst into flames, causing its boom and 16 tons of concrete it was carrying to plunge onto the…

The founder of a South Carolinian construction company has been charged with wire fraud and money laundering after a six-day trial. Antoine Berenyi, 63, was the founder of Charleston-based contractor…

Balfour Beatty’s US arm has won a $320m deal to deliver a 3,000-person prison in the US state of Georgia. The prison will contain housing, administration, general and vocational education…

Vietnamese car maker VinFast says it will break ground on its $4bn electric vehicle factory in North Carolina on 28 July. VinFast is a subsidiary of construction, technology, and property…

Funding for the first three trains of the Rio Grande LNG plant in Brownsville, southern Texas, has been confirmed. NextDecade’s facility will have a liquefaction capacity of 27 million tonnes…

Skanska has finished the $414m renovation of Pennsylvania Station’s Long Island Railroad (LIRR) Concourse in New York City. Penn District Station Developer LLC awarded the project in 2020 to modernise…

Houston, Texas will get a 100ft-tall sundial that generates solar power next year. The Arco del Tiempo (Arch of Time), set for Houston’s East End neighbourhood, was designed by Italian…

Skanska USA has completed its $38m renovation of the Tampa Convention Center in Florida, built in 1990. It built a 23,500-sq-ft extension and added 18,000 sq ft of waterfront meeting…

An extension of Magazzino Italian Art, a gallery in Cold Springs, New York, designed by Spanish architects Alberto Campo Baeza and Miguel Quismondo will open to the public in September.…

Construction has begun on 730 Stanyan, a fully affordable residential development in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury neighbourhood, designed by the Dutch practice Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and local firm…

Bechtel has opened a new office in Arizona to tap into the booming semiconductor, batteries, and battery materials markets. The 8,000-sq-ft office in Chandler, near Phoenix, opened 27 June at…

On 8 May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a law prohibiting Chinese companies, or their “subsidiaries”, from purchasing any real property in Florida. Developments in other US states have…

Amazon has announced plans to spend $7.8bn on data centres in Ohio by 2030. These will contain servers, data storage and networking equipment for cloud computing.  Numerous localities in the…

Californian contractor Granite has been awarded a $48m contract by the US Army Corps of Engineers to build flood defences for the city of Wharton, Texas. Wharton is susceptible to…

Aecom has appointed Eduards Miska as director of engineering in the Canadian province of British Columbia (BC). Based in the Victoria office, he brings 30 years of experience with the…

Bechtel has destroyed the final munition in the US stockpile of chemical weapons at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Kentucky. That completes the US’ commitment to destroy…

The US government yesterday approved Danish energy company Ørsted’s plans to build the first-ever wind farm off the coast of New Jersey. Ocean Wind I will be built off the…

Balfour Beatty has finished a $300m extension of the Sacramento Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, which treats water prior to its discharge in the Sacramento River, where it will be reused…