News Dallas Museum of Art announces winner for extension 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…
News Lane to overhaul busy interchange serving Florida Disney resorts 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…
News Boston bans use of fossil fuels to power the construction of public buildings 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…
News US renews attack on Chinese contractor, targeting Manila Bay reclamation projects 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…
News Skanska wins $70m contract to overhaul historic campus building in Pennsylvania 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…
News ‘Extremely lucky’: Crane fire causes potentially fatal collapse in New York 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…
News Kentucky construction owner convicted of fraud on $15m contract 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…
News Balfour Beatty wins $320m prison contract in Georgia 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…
News Vietnamese electric car maker to start $4bn US plant this month 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…
News Funding finalised for Bechtel’s $18.4bn Texas LNG project 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…
News Skanska completes $414m renovation of Penn Station’s LIRR concourse 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…
News Giant sundial to produce solar power for Houston 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…
News Skanska used the sea to finish $38m renovation of Tampa Convention Center 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…
News Extended gallery dedicated to Italian art and design to open in New York state 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.…
News Work begins on OMA’s fully affordable San Francisco housing development 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…
News Bechtel opens second Arizona office for high-tech boom 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…
Perspectives As US states mull banning foreign ownership, here’s what investors need to know 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…
News Amazon to spend $7.8bn on Mid-West cloud computing infrastructure 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…