Vantage Data Centers says it will invest $2bn in a data centre campus in Stafford County, Virginia. Called VA4, the project involves three data centres on 82 acres with a…

Energy firm Doral Renewables has picked Bechtel to design and build the Cold Creek solar power and energy storage project in Schleicher and Tom Green counties, Texas. The facility will…

Sweden’s Skanska has won a project management contract for a $312m, 420-bed women’s prison in Chesterfield Township, New Jersey. Skanska Integrated Solutions (SIS) is providing owner’s representative services to assist…

The US government has announced an $80bn partnership with Westinghouse, uranium company Cameco, and Brookfield Asset Management to build a wave of new nuclear reactors across the US. Designed to…

A section of a 2.25-mile-long series of interconnected parks that act as a flood defence in Manhattan, New York, has opened to the public. It’s officially called the East Side…

US engineering giant Bechtel yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding with the US Department of Commerce to help deliver energy, data-centre and other schemes funded by Japan’s pledge to invest…

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…