Cascade Nuclear Partners (CNP), a joint venture of Canada’s Aecon and US firms Black & Veatch and Kiewit, has won a planning, design and construction contract for four small modular…

Bechtel has identified seven factors leading to the deaths of three workers building phase 1 of the Port Arthur liquid natural gas terminal in Jefferson County, Texas on 29 April…

New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is celebrating a crucial railway bridge replacement project that it says is $93m under budget and a whopping 51 months ahead of schedule. The…

Caterpillar, the world’s biggest construction equipment maker, says it will spend $100m on training over the next five years in the US. Its “workforce pledge” starts with $5m for training…

Illinois has announced $400m in targeted funding as part of the state’s record $50.6bn infrastructure program to deliver new roads, bridges and infrastructure across the Metro East region, thereby creating…

Construction has begun on the $3.5bn AirTrain monorail system at New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport, undertaken on behalf of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The…

Residents have started moving into Oregon’s tallest mass timber building – the new “Julia West House”, a 12-storey affordable apartment building in downtown Portland. Built on a formerly underutilised 5,000-sq-ft…

Jacobs will design and Sundt Construction will build an expansion of the Interstate 10, in what will be southern Arizona’s largest highway construction project. Arizona Department of Transportation’s $600m Kino…

Graycor Construction Company has finished building Amazon’s first owner-occupied mass timber distribution centre, a 171,000-sq-ft hub on a 39-acre site in Elkhart, Indiana. A test-bed for Amazon’s sustainability ambitions, the…

Employers’ group the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has warned that the US federal government shutdown, now in its 13th day, could undermine construction projects across the country. It…

Skanska has won two US contracts together worth $323m, one of which is to build a 50,800-sq-m development in downtown Nashville, Tennessee for $175m. The Bend (pictured) will contain a…

Formerly a platoon leader and company executive officer with the 101st Airborne Division, Bryce Barnes is director of innovation at Nashville-based Hardaway Construction. Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a…

A joint venture of Turner Construction, Flintco, Nickson General Contractors and Fifer & Associates has been selected to build an extension of Memphis’ Regional One Health facility. The expansion will…

A joint venture of Hochtief subsidiary FlatironDragados and Sweden’s Skanska has won a contract for road improvements at Los Angeles International Airport’s (LAX) as part of the airport’s Airfield and…

Webber, an American subsidiary of Spain’s Ferrovial, has won two contracts worth a total of $721m to build water facilities in Austin and Fort Worth, Texas. In Austin, Webber has…

Two critical New York City transport megaprojects – the $16bn Hudson Tunnels project and the $2bn 2nd Avenue Subway extension – ended the week in limbo after the Trump administration…

Aecom Hunt and Turner Construction will act as construction manager for the new Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland, Ohio, set to be the home stadium of the Cleveland Browns football…

Microsoft is backing green cement manufacturer Fortera in a bid to accelerate the adoption of low-carbon building materials across its global datacentre operations. The strategic investment, made through the company’s…