Cyclists and pedestrians can now cross a busy road without risking life and limb in San Ramon, California thanks to a $21.6m bridge designed by Danish consulting engineer Cowi. Opened…

A joint venture of Turner Construction and Wohlsen Construction has won a contract to build a 100MW data centre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for AI company CoreWeave, which says it will…

US contractor Gilbane has been selected to build 1,000 homes across 55 acres for the $1bn redevelopment of Calvert Square and Young Terrace in Norfolk, Virginia. The development aims to…

The US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild has won a $238m design-and-build contract to expand the Interstate 75 in north-central Florida. Lane Construction will provide auxiliary lanes between interchanges, bridge replacements,…

Engineers have started building the United States’ first “microreactor”, a 1.5MW mobile nuclear reactor compact enough to be shipped in four standard shipping containers. BWXT Advanced Technologies is now fabricating…

The Virginia Passenger Rail Authority (VPRA) has awarded a $414m contract to build the Franconia-Springfield rail bypass to a joint venture of FlatironDragados and Herzog. Located some 15 miles south…

The California High-Speed Rail Authority (CHSRA) is suing the Trump administration over what it called the administration’s “illegal termination” of around $4bn in federal grants awarded during the Biden administration…

Google and Brookfield Asset Management have announced a 20-year framework agreement for up to 3GW of hydropower to provide electricity to its datacentres. Initially, the US tech company will buy…

Skanska yesterday marked the topping out of the 35,768-sq-m Living and Learning Center, a student accommodation building for Boston’s Simmons University. It ceremonially placed the uppermost steel beam on the…

Webuild Group’s US subsidiary Lane has won a $337m contract to widen a 16km section of the I-85 highway in Gaston County, North Carolina, a busy commuter route in the…

Engineers at the University of California San Diego have earthquake-tested a 10-story, 100-foot-tall  steel structure, saying it’s the tallest steel structure ever tested with an earthquake simulator, also known as…

Californian contractor Granite has won a $111m contract from the Utah Department of Transportation for road works in the region. Granite’s scope of work includes 5km of rehabilitation work on…

No one welcomes construction disputes, but when the initiator is the President of the United States, it’s even less welcome. Last Thursday, President Donald Trump’s director of the Office of…

Construction has topped out on Skanska’s Artificial Intelligence and Quantitative Biology building at New York’s Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). The three-storey building is made from cross-laminated timber and will…

UK-headquartered Balfour Beatty has broken ground on a $260m luxury apartment building in southwestern Washington DC for developer Republic Properties. The 356-unit building at 1301 Maryland Avenue South West, called…

A joint venture between FlatironDragados and Skanska has landed a $1bn contract from the Virginia Passenger Rail Authority to build the Long Bridge North railway bridge in Washington DC. The…

Ground has broken on a $750m expansion of White Plains Hospital in Westchester County, New York, designed by architects Payette with Suffolk Construction as construction manager. The 10-storey, 500,000-sq-ft expansion…

North America’s longest concrete segmental cable-stayed bridge opened to traffic on 28 June. The $1.3bn New Harbor Bridge over the ship channel at the port of Corpus Christi in Texas…